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http://www.onebigmenu.com

I'm working on this site right now, and I understand your concerns because I feel them myself. I'm hoping I can bridge the gap between dining and diner. :)

(Please excuse the design, since I'm the only developer :P)

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I'd advise that you nuke the frontpage. Instead, make it location aware and show categories (ex: recommended, asian, mexican, american, italian, greek, other) with five restaurants each.

The individual restaurant pages are very clean and informative compared to what you might see on a restaurant website. The only things missing are restaurant hours and pictures of food items.

I understand exactly what you're talking about and we now have people inputting hours. I'm going to clean up the front page with things that make sense to people, but right now it's under HEAVY development, and I'm the only developer :P

That's really cool, I like where you're going with One Big Menu. When I visit a restaurant, I want to know how good what I'm ordering is--I don't care if the restaurant is 5 stars, if what I ordered is the crappiest thing on the menu.

I know, and I want to provide a good interface for people to find exactly what they want, when they want. :) And the pictures will provide people with a view into what they're ordering. I think this is the major reason people aren't exploring with dining. :)

Oh, also, I'm looking for a designer to help out. So if you're interested let me know :)

One last thing, If any developers want to join forces, that would be cool too :)

This interests me. What's the plaform?

Simple lamp stack using codeigniter. Nothing fancy. Runs on MediaTemple's VE Server.

why didn't you choose kohana? http://kohanaframework.org/

it's based off of codeigniter, but it's fully OO. are you using some sort of ORM like active record? if you are, you should look at the tables and see how many joins the ORM layer is doing so you know how much work it's going to be to scale.

Hey Justin, thanks for the tip. I'll check it out. I'm not using Active Record currently, but scaling up is something I worry about and just won't understand until I have the problem first hand. Maybe we can chat about this sometime.

What is your email? I am interested.

conrad.twizzle@gmail.com

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