Diningverse for Eaters (a.k.a. Patrons)

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Restaurants go back about 250 years.
Online social networking, about 5 years.
Combining them begins now.

With diningverse, restaurants, patrons, and patrons' friends can interact with each other like never before. You can maintain a profile and share your dining experiences with others. Every time you recommend a restaurant, it'll be listed in your profile and people on your Buddy List will get an email with your comments and a link to that restaurant's profile.

By the way, diningverse is all about recommendations. The number of recommendations determines the relative quality of the restaurant profiles within the profile listings. This way you'll always see the best restaurants first.

There are no ads on diningverse - just restaurant and patron profiles. The restaurants on diningverse are all independently owned - no slick corporate descriptions written from a distant corporate office. You'll usually find all the key information about restaurants - including photos and the very latest menus and specials. In fact, many restaurants use their diningverse profile instead of having their own website.

There's actually much more to tell you about - check out our FAQs, or simply sign-up and start building your network of dining establishments and experiences. You'll learn about all of our features as you go.

Diningverse will allow you to...

Discover great local restaurants

With diningverse it's easy discover great local independently owned restaurants. You can browse your local area and see the most recommended restaurants (the Top Restaurants) or the most recently added restaurants (the Fresh Restaurants). You can also see the most recent restaurant recommendations in your local area and pinpoint the restaurants on a map of your local area.


See where your friends like to eat

Who's opinion do you trust when it comes to recommending restaurants? Do you listen to a complete stranger that writes a restaurant review or would you rather visit a restaurant because your good friend recommended it? We thought so! That's why diningverse is built around restaurant recommendations from your diningverse buddies. You can see the latest recommendations from your friends on your diningverse home page and a recommendation is sent to your email every time one of your diningverse buddies leaves one.


Suggest great local restaurants

All independently owned local restaurants on diningverse are suggested by our diningverse patrons. When you want to leave a recommendation for a restaurant you like and this restaurant is not on diningverse, you can suggest the restaurant and we will add it to the local area where the restaurant is located. As the next step, just leave a recommendation for the restaurant.


Get complete and consistent restaurant information

No more frustration while "fishing" for relevant information on a restaurant website. Diningverse restaurant profiles give you all the information you are looking for in a complete and consistent way. See the restaurant location, cuisine, phone number, opening hours, menus, specials, photos of the exterior and interior, history and more. Everything is simple and quick to find.


Keep tabs on restaurants in multiple areas

Keep track of the restaurants in your local area or simply add multiple areas of interest to get all the new recommendations and new restaurants info aggregated in your diningverse account. When you see something you like, just check with your diningverse buddies, jump into a car and go visit the restaurant.

Check out how My Areas work and watch a short video.


Browse restaurant info easily on mobile devices

In love with your iPhone, BlackBerry or Android mobile phone? Wouldn't it be great if you could easily find and browse the local restaurant information on your hand-held gadget? Diningverse automatically formats all the local restaurant profiles to fit your mobile device. Get the basic restaurant info and full menus, pictures, and more.


Recommend great local restaurants to your friends

Do you like to share your local restaurant experience with your friends? Diningverse makes this super easy. Just invite your friends to diningverse and turn them into your diningverse buddies. From that point on, they will be notified every time you leave a recommendation for a restaurant you like. When a friend asks you "Hey, do you know a good restaurant around here?" simply tell them "Oh yeah, check out my diningverse profile and go get something to eat."


Pick which local restaurants are best

Just like on Digg, the local restaurants that get the most recommendations will be listed at the top of the local restaurants listing. All you need to do is leave a recommendation for your favorite local restaurants, have your diningverse buddies eat there and leave their recommendations. Next, just sit back and see the restaurants work their way up the list.


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