1. (source:www.foodspotting.com/about) As a foodspotter, you can...
Foodspotting:A visual guide to good foodand where to find it  Share where to find a food you love by uploading a photo (“spotting it”), emailing it to food@foodspotting.com
(you’ll need to add details from the website), or adding it to a guide.
Foodspotting is the easiest way to find and share the foods you love: Instead of reviewing restaurants, you can  Complete guides, scavenger hunts and challenges to earn badges and recognition.
recommend your favorite dishes and see what others have recommended wherever you go. This service began in 2009  Become a dish expert by spotting five or more foods of the same type.
when cofounders Alexa Andrzejewski (Adaptive Path), Ted Grubb (Get Satisfaction) and Soraya Darabi (New York Times)  Earn virtual points for making quality contributions to the Foodspotting community.
realized that while there were many restaurant review apps, there was no easy way to find or rate specific dishes. We
set out to create a new kind of local guide that is unique because: (source:www.foodspotting.com/about/faq)
Why don’t you allow negative ratings?
IT’S ABOUT DISHES, NOT JUST RESTAURANTS One of our guiding principles is, “Only the foods people love.” We believe that when you’re out and about and hungry,
Foodspotting helps you decide what to eat, not just where, by enabling you to find whatever you’re craving, see what’s you don’t want to know what people hate — you want to know what they love! We encourage people to spot foods that
good at a particular restaurant and discover the best foods around you wherever you go. they like and to nom foods that are amazing.
IT’S VISUAL How did you come up with the idea for Foodspotting?
When you’re out and about and hungry, you don’t want to read long, snarky reviews. You just want to see what’s good Alexa first came up with the idea for Foodspotting when she traveled to Japan and Korea and discovered all of these
nearby. By showing you photos of nearby foods and keeping our rating system simple (If you love it, nom it!), we’re foods she’d never heard of before, like okonomiyaki and tteokbokki. She returned to San Francisco craving these foods
making decision-making easier. and, unable to find them, she set out to create a better way for people to learn about new foods and to find them locally.
To build this visual guide to foods and where to find them, she realized that she could harness an existing trend — taking
IT’S POSITIVE pictures of food and sharing them online — by giving this activity a name, purpose and identity, and thus, Foodspotting
Because we know that even a “one star restaurant” can have one amazing dish, we want to know what you love, not was born. *tteokbokki (=トッポギ??)
what you hate. We encourage spotters to share only the foods that they like and to “nom” the foods that they love.
Conversational Material:
IT’S GLOBAL 1. What is your resource when you decide where to eat?
We believe that good food can be found anywhere, and built Foodspotting to work in any city, small town or country Foodspotting is an online resource to find dishes to eat. Online, books, friends, someone in TV? Any particular
from the start. We want to encourage exploration and enable you to discover new foods and find them locally. resource you always check? Dancyu, Tabelog? Or, you believe your instinct and go outside to explorer with no idea?
Our goal is to cover the earth with amazing food sightings, and since launching Foodspotting in January 2010, over 2. What kind of information leads you to a restaurant to have a dish?
2,013,526 foods have been spotted around the world. (As of today, 2012/07/21, more than 5 million foods) Foodspotting does not encourage uploading foods you dislike: only positive.Isenough for you? Do you still want
good and bad dish both in a resource? Also, do you prefer reading users’ comments?
How does Foodspotting work?
Foodspotters share where to find their favorite foods using photos enabling Foodseekers to find whatever they’re 3. Any recommendation?
craving, see what’s good at a particular restaurant and discover new foods wherever they go. Tell us some story about a dish that has impressed you in taste, mood in restaurant, or any special. Was good or
bad? (Of course, you can tell more than one story)
As a foodseeker, you can…
 Explore your city or neighborhood to see the nearest, latest and best foods around you. 4. Personal Taste History
 Look up a restaurant and see what’s good there. (Off the topic, but) Have you seen any change in you regarding taste? Any dish you hated in childhood but you can
 Find a particular dish that you’re craving. try now? What made the change? Or, anything you avoid eating still?
 Bookmark foods you want to try by clicking (“Want it!”)
 Vote up foods you’ve tried and loved (“Nom it!”). 5. What do you think of Foodspotting?
 Access guides from experts like the Travel Channel to see the nearest recommendations to you.
 Follow people and guides that you trust, and places and foods that you love. 6. Talk freely about foods (& drinks) exclusively.
2012/07/21 MEDDHY Topic. Chairperson: touchan