Where do we eat tonight?
- Posted by Laura on July 30th, 2007 filed in Food and beverage, IT & Telecommunications
Opportunity: Online portal with all restaurants’ menus
I have always found it difficult to select a new restaurant simply because I did not know what to expect from it. Why should I select one restaurant and not another, although they both serve “Traditional Romanian dishes”? How are they priced? What is the ambiance and background music? What type of clientèle is frequenting the place? Do I have a wide variety of choice for vegetarian dishes? However, the most important question is usually the simple: “What’s on the menu?”
I was surfing the blogosphere these days and found a possible answer in href=”http://www.allmenus.com/” mce_href=”http://www.allmenus.com/” target=”_blank”>Allmenus.com. Based on this model, I would suggest a similar portal that could begin by covering the Bucharest area: all restaurants, menus, prices, ratings, recommendations, etc.
While the value to the end user is obvious, the owner / administrator has multiple means of monetizing such a website: from charging a fee for each menu to be published online from the company, for news and updates of each menu, to online advertising, news and events from companies, to name just a few.
I would be regular visitor to such a website, if I could find it. Would you?
Written by Laura
August 1st, 2007 at 5:16 pm
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August 28th, 2007 at 11:28 pm
Hello — In doing one of our sweeps of the internet to see who is talking about us, I came across your article (I’m the General Manager of Allmenus.com). We have been kicking around the idea of a European expansion here, and we would love to talk to you about helping us start Allmenus in Romania. It will take us a little while to get going, but we’d be happy to discuss this possibility. Best — Jon