alacarte.fm, colony style
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finding the food you want, Colony style
Luís MartinhoJune 2010
Finding restaurantsThe problem
. Always eating in the same place
. No knowledge about neighboring restaurants
. No knowledge about prices
. No knowledge about restaurant styles
. No knowledge about restaurant menus
not willing tospend more than8 eur
we love italian
we get easilybored
Finding restaurantsThe current solutions
. Google maps
. yelp.com
. Other things like:
usdiner.com
restaurants.com
zagat.com
. Traditional restaurant guide books
try searching for foodinstead of restaurant name
if you haveplenty of time to kill
The fails...
not really a restaurant
good shot!but a bitexpensive
Coimbra?
yet anotherrecipe!
Great! no results...
Great! no results again...But we forgive you!
SearchSearchpenne all arrabiata in coimbra for 8 euro
* The new way to discover a place to eat
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Restaurant Vs
Restaurant
feeling lycky?
based on yourhistory
clustering
À La CarteUsage
. Restaurant comparison
. City restaurant tour
. Business intelligence backed
recommendation engine
. Healthy food recommendations
. Random restaurant selection
. Restaurant and dish comment
and reviewing system
À La CarteThe stakeholders
The restaurant owner. Publishes information about his restaurant. Updates daily menu feed. Publishes chef's and other recommendations
. Finds a place to eat
. Reviews the place he visited
. Updates the geographic information for that place
The end user
À La CarteThe ecosystem
Restaurant ownerpublishes information
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The system processesand publishes the information
The user finds the restaurant, the food and rates it or even complementsthe info!
Everything else is built on top of these simple concepts
À La CarteBasics
. Semantic based
. Human proof
. Just works
. Lots of restaurant information
. Structured
. Open
DatabaseSearch engine+
À La CarteThe brain
1. The query:
3. Semantic parse
random francesinha in porto
dish : francesinha location: portorandom : true
4. The resultsRestaurants, prices and reviews
À La CarteWhere it fits
Plugin Manager
Web MVC Plugin
Web MVC app plugins
REST ManagerMain Plugin
Web MVC Plugin
À La CarteWeb MVC
Web MVC Utils Plugin
Template Engine Manager
Entity Manager
À La Carte Future Extensions
Authentication plugins Geolocation plugins
The restaurants pay the bill
Contextual recommendations
À La CarteThe 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
. Social experience
. Legacy system integration
. Loyalty driven system
. Restaurant tops, benchmarking.
À La CarteThe future
More ideas to come !
