An idea for Yelp, Menupages, and their brethren

Ike's Place - Castro - San Francisco, CA

Allow people to review, fave, or star individual menu items.

Here in San Francisco, Yelp is indispensable. In NYC, I used Menupages all the time. Both are great for simple, honest, user-generated feedback of places to eat.

Often, I’m visiting the page for a restaurant I’ve already tried, just to skim through the reviews and decide what to order. Case in point, my favorite sammy shop in the whole wide world, Ike’s Place, has a ton of amazing vegetarian sandwiches on the menu. My favorite is their “Going Home For Thanksgiving” sandwich, but sometimes I want to try something new.

Wouldn’t it be neat-o if you could just look at the menu and see reviews for each item? Maybe even sort by popularity or rating? I think it would.

Posted on 9 August '08 by Amit Gupta, under Asides, Business.

2 Comments to “An idea for Yelp, Menupages, and their brethren”

#1 Posted by Richard Berger (13.08.08 at 16:16 )

Hey Amit,

I work at a company called SeamlessWeb (http://www.seamlessweb.com). We offer a service that allows users to order delivery food from restaurants online. You simply put in your address, choose a restaurant and click on the dish(es) that you would like to order. Now I’m not sure if you live or work in an area where we have restaurants, but we are constantly expanding in San Francisco, so you should enter your address on the site and check it out.

As for your suggestions, I think that they are very good. In fact, we already list the most popular items on each menu (as determined by what people are ordering) and we’re about to launch pictures, reviews, and tags for individual items as well.

Let us know if you have any suggestions about the site; we’d love to hear what you think.

Best,

Richard

#2 Posted by Shon Bayer (28.08.08 at 08:33 )

There actually is a service that does this: http://www.dishola.com/

It’s relatively new, but growing every day. Lots of dish reviews in Austin, TX (where I think that it’s based) and San Francisco.








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