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Hidden Food
Purpose
- Find the unknown and greatest eateries, no national chains, just the best food that the average tourist can’t find (It can be well known places, just it has to taste great and not a national chain)
- It’ll be a modern-day “Recommended by Duncan Hines”
Possible names:
- Hidden Food
- Unknown Food
- Food Finds (domain taken)
- Trove eateries (as in “treasure trove”)
- Trove Grill
The problem:
How do you find the good restaurants? We find the places only the locals know about. If you manage to find the place, what do you order there?
What makes mine different?
Food Network has a lot of great restaurants, but not focused on local eateries as much as I like.
Inspiration:
- Alton Brown’s Dining on Asphalt on Food Network
- “Recommended by Duncan Hines”
Back to the basics
One of the greatest parts about visiting someplace, or rather living somewhere, is the local eateries. When you go somewhere you’ve never been to, you typically ask a friend “What’s good here?” So what if you don’t know anyone? you look it up on some review sites, but they tend to just go for the high scale and money grubbing places. If you only go for the touristy spots, you’ll miss out on the greatest stuff!
It could easily run by a community (think Threadless or ExtraTasty... skinnyCorp) as a community is always adamant about the places they love and they can rate the places they know about, and suggest new places for review.
Income?
It’ll be ad supported, and if at all possible, the ads will be only from the listed local eateries.
Known issues
How do you compete with the likes of Zagat?
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Another issue: Once they become popular, would they tend to move themselves off the list because they aren't your typical "hole in the wall" unique type places?
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Good point. I think they would still qualify unless they started a chain outside their home city or region. It's still local if you don't cross state lines : ).
Phoenix, AZ Foreign Language Lessons - Tutoring Indianpolis, IN web design -
My classification is the same as letutor's... if a restaurant is within one state, it's local.
While the idea of "hole in the wall" is very nice, it's not practical if a good place gets popular.
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You could even have a regional or cult favorites category.
Like In and Out. Even though it's a chain it's only available in the west in like 3 states and people have to eat it when they come to Cali.
Or Steak and Shake in the midwest. You could have a whole nother site or category there.
Phoenix, AZ Foreign Language Lessons - Tutoring Indianpolis, IN web design -
I think i could convince a bunch of restaurants in the toronto region to allow me to eat for free if I were to put them on a website like this. If you put this together, count me in;)
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@letutor: I like that idea.
@wesbos: I'm working out how to make an affiliate system work. But I love the idea of incentives for people to post about their favorite eateries.
Was just thinking about the name of it, what about "The Eating Point"? Kinda a parody of The Tipping Point.
The only thing I don't like about the name is the double "ee" in theeeatingpoint.com.
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Domains are troublesome things. I think in an agile world we need to keep in mind that the business will probably change direction soon after launch and therefore to keep it reasonably generic if possible. Something I've thought more about lately is how verbal the domain can be. If you get a shot of PR someday and some old guy is telling the world about your site on the radio make sure they can get there. utube.com got pushed offline from all the accidental type-ins they got when the youtube bubble burst. For that reason I've got spotstak.com and spotstack.com for the new site I'm trying.
You might want to check out something that just launched too, which is similar. http://www.thecitylist.com It's an interesting site but I think they may have gone possibly too broad since they are ranking everything. What if you applied a ranking idea to just local eateries? Food for thought :P
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I couldn't agree more Ross
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