SavvyDining.com: Secret Army of "Restaurant Police" Creates Worldwide Dining Guide
An ever-growing secret army of "Restaurant Police" is building a worldwide restaurant rating guide called SavvyDining.com. In its first ten months, the site has grown to include ratings on over 20,000 restaurants all around the world, organized geographically for simple navigation. Members grade restaurants A, B, C, D or F on six criteria: food, service, atmosphere, cleanliness, hospitality and value, so that users of the site can decide where to dine in their travels and restaurant owners can get customer feedback quickly and easily.
(PRWEB) January 6, 2005 -- "Restaurant Police." They're undercover,
undetectable and anonymous, and a bit more observant, discriminating and "savvy"
than most restaurant-goers. They could be dining at the table right next to
yours, anywhere in the world, and you'd never know. They're in corner delis,
downtown bistros, beachfront bars, sidewalk cafes and elegant, upscale
restaurants, watching, listening, tasting and -- most importantly --
opining.
They then report their opinions as six letter grades to a
no-frills online restaurant guide for travelers, SavvyDining.com. The grades (A,
B, C, D or F) are for food, service, atmosphere, cleanliness, hospitality and
value, in that order (e.g., CDBBCD or AAAAAD).
Since March of 2004, when
work on the site began, hundreds of members of this ever-growing secret army
have rated more than 20,000 restaurants on every continent except Antarctica,
and they're adding over 2,000 more each month. By the end of 2005, they'll have
rated over 50,000 restaurants, 100,000 by the end of 2006.
All those
restaurants are organized geographically for easy navigation, so after a brief
online orientation, which includes a printable overview of the grading system,
first-time visitors to this free site can find rated restaurants anywhere in the
world with just a few clicks.
Uncluttered with extraneous graphics,
faddish animations or time consuming search functions, the site is extremely
quick to load, even on older computers and/or slower dial-up connections. And
since there are no addresses or lengthy user comments or reviews to clog up the
screen, only the grades and name for each restaurant, presented in a large,
legible font, SavvyDining.com's users can decide which restaurants to try and
which to avoid with little more than a glance. Savvy travelers who use it once
will find it
invaluable for trip-planning.
Savvy restaurant owners
are also welcome to use the ratings as a source of ongoing customer
feedback.
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