alacarte.fm presentation
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where do you want to eat today?
João MagalhãesMay 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
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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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+
it just works!
this one is anextra!
À La CarteThe search engine
. Naturally easy to use semantic search engine
. Focused in 5 main vectors:
1- Dish
2- Location
3- Price
4- Restaurant
5- Reputation
6- Meta data (tags)
À La CarteDatabase
RestaurantsLocation, description, menu (dishes, deserts and wines),reviews and comments, pictures,chef opinion, etc
DishesIngredients, nutrition info,related restaurants, pictures,health information
Lots of information about:
Metadata
RESTful API
Crowd sourcing
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 ecosystem
Restaurant ownerpublishes information
1 5
2 3
4
The system processesand publishes the information
The user finds the restaurant, the food and rates it or even complementsthe info!
. Social experience
. Legacy system integration
. Loyalty driven system
. Restaurant tops, benchmarking.
À La CarteThe future
More ideas to come !
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