alacarte.fm presentation

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

*

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