alacarte.fm, colony style

finding the food you want, Colony style Luís Martinho June 2010

Finding restaurants The problem we get easily . Always eating in the same place bored . No knowledge about neighboring restaurants . No knowledge about prices not willing to spend more than . No knowledge about restaurant styles 8 eur . No knowledge about restaurant menus we love italian

Finding restaurants The current solutions . Google . Google maps . yelp.com . Other things like: try searching for food usdiner.com instead of restaurant name restaurants.com zagat.com . Traditional restaurant guide books if you have plenty of time to kill

The fails...

not really a restaurant good shot! but a bit expensive

Great! no results... Coimbra? yet another recipe!

Great! no results again... But we forgive you!

* penne all arrabiata in coimbra for 8 euro Search The new way to discover a place to eat *

À La Carte Usage Restaurant Vs . Restaurant comparison Restaurant . City restaurant tour . Business intelligence backed clustering recommendation engine based on your . Healthy food recommendations history . Random restaurant selection . Restaurant and dish comment and reviewing system feeling lycky?

À La Carte The stakeholders The restaurant owner . Publishes information about his restaurant . Updates daily menu feed . Publishes chef's and other recommendations The end user . Finds a place to eat . Reviews the place he visited . Updates the geographic information for that place

À La Carte The ecosystem 5 1 Restaurant owner 4 The user finds the publishes information restaurant, the 2 3 food and rates it or even complements the info! The system processes and publishes the information

À La Carte Basics Search engine + Database . Semantic based . Lots of restaurant information . Human proof . Structured . Just works . Open Everything else is built on top of these simple concepts

À La Carte The brain 1. The query: random francesinha in porto 3. Semantic parse dish : francesinha location: porto random : true 4. The results Restaurants, prices and reviews

À La Carte Where it fits Plugin Manager REST Manager Main Plugin Web MVC Plugin Web MVC app plugins

À La Carte Web MVC Entity Manager Template Engine Manager Web MVC Plugin Web MVC Utils Plugin

À La Carte Future Extensions Authentication plugins Geolocation plugins

À La Carte The business model . Fremium based: Free basic services and paid premium services . Free profile creation and menu streaming . Paid statistics and business intelligence about audience . Paid booking . Paid advertising Contextual recommendations The restaurants pay the bill

À La Carte The future . Social experience . Legacy system integration . Loyalty driven system . Restaurant tops, benchmarking. More ideas to come !

Q&A “there is no such thing as a dumb question” Luís Martinho lmartinho@hive.pt

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