Launch Detail for 'FoodieBytes'
Announced by
Manoj George on DEC 11 2007
Tags:
food
search
cuisine
restaurants
dining
Have you ever had a craving for your favorite dish, but needed to find a restaurant that serves it? FoodieBytes.com is an innovative site that provides a novel way of discovering new restaurants that serve your usual favorites. In addition, the site helps consumers with dietary restrictions (e.g. gluten-free or low-carb) to quickly find restaurants serving the foods they need.
Launched on December 3rd, FoodieBytes is powered by an extensive database with 16,000 menus in 5 cities: New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, and Washington DC (with Los Angeles to be released in early December.) A future release will also make the service available via mobile phones and will let you discover the most popular items served in your neighborhood.
The ultimate goal of FoodieBytes is to help consumers find something to eat quickly instead of having to read restaurant reviews and browse multiple menus. After all, figuring out “What am I going to eat tonight, shouldn’t be hard work.”
FoodieBytes is in the process of adding several more features, including user generated ratings for menu items, a mobile version and partnerships with local information portals, all towards making sure that the next time you want to have a bite, it is easy and fast.
Recent media mentions for FoodieBytes.com
FoodieBytes.com offers a helpful new service for the restaurant crowd. If you’re hungry for a specific dish, type it in and find the nearest restaurant that serves it. We tried it and found it pretty danged cool. On a recent day in the fro-zone, we found the pho we craved at Le Colonial.
— Chicago Tribune
In addition to breaking down their database by restaurant names, cuisine types, neighborhoods and the like, FoodieBytes has upped the ante with this minor stroke of genius: cataloging restaurant menus by dish name. So, say you’re dying for mapo tofu or a nice vegetarian lasagna or an order of curry puffs. Done. Now, wasn’t that easy?
— Sfweekly
There are plenty of sites geared towards helping you find information about local restaurants, but I like the approach FoodieBytes is taking here – it actually works in the way people think about deciding where to eat. As the company expands to more cities (currently in Boston, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Washington DC) it could also become very useful for travelers. FoodieBytes also has a mobile version in the works.
— Mashable
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