Two things I can get down with. I am a social media nerd and I love restaurants. I also love when the two meet, so this post on the Hill Holiday blog was right up my alley.
The last bit regarding 4Food was particularly interesting:
Is social media the secret sauce for restaurants? I recently heard about 4Food, an organic burger eatery opening in Manhattan later this summer. Plans include servers taking orders on iPads and a 240-square-foot monitor in the restaurant to stream Foursquare check-ins, tweets and updates from the 4Food staff. Will that sell more burgers? Probably not. What might though, is the company’s plans to use a custom online application to crowdsource menu development. In addition to getting an order “their way,” customers are able name and market their creations, receiving $.25 worth of store credit for every sale of their unique menu item.
PS, Check out my badly-in-need-of-an-update post from last year, Boston Restaurants On Twitter.
PPS, Hill Holiday, you should make your blog URLs a little more search friendly. WordPress permalink settings. Know them and love them.