May 9th, 2013

Restaurant Discovery App Dish.fm Becomes A “Best Dish” Search Engine In Over 850 Cities Worldwide

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Dish.fm, the recently relaunched restaurant recommendation app which focuses on the best menu items, as opposed to overall venue reviews, is today rolling out an update which expands the service into more of a dish search engine than local utility. The company had previously allowed you to see the best dishes nearby and compare dishes inside a restaurant, but now the app also helps you find the… → Read More

November 14th, 2012

Nara Brings Its Restaurant Recommendation Service To iOS And Android, Expands To 25 Cities

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In the world of restaurant recommendations, the focus these days is squarely on social recommendations. Nara, which is launching its mobile apps for iOS and Android today, is taking a different approach. The service tries to learn your preferences and uses its own set of proprietary algorithms to give you personalized recommendations. → Read More

March 12th, 2012

Combining Yelp & Twitter For Foodies, Fondu’s Redesign Beefs Up Recommendations, Discovery

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At TechCrunch Disrupt NYC last year, Gauri Manglik, Mike Lewis, and Orion Burt launched SpotOn, a recommendation engine in app, which served its users suggested local businesses based on their friends’ activity on Foursquare, Facebook, and more. The co-founders quickly found, however, that its customers were using the app more as a social networking tool than for its recommendations. So, based on… → Read More