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Great tool to find restaurants from TV shows Introducing Famous Food Finder

#1 User is offline   Famous Food Finder 

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Posted 12 November 2009 - 12:18 AM

Hey guys,

I just got done building a site that allows you to search for restaurants that have been featured on TV. So far 5 shows such as "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives", "Throwdown with Bobby Flay" and "The Best Thing I Ever Ate" have been added to the search queue. Right now we have around 600 restuarants all spread throughout the USA that you can access. The site also implements an advanced search panel where you can filter your results based on show, host, location and radius. We are working hard everyday to add more shows, more search options and more features you want to see. Best of all the site is free to use and open to everyone. Check it out and let us know what you think. If you like what you see then be sure to spread the word, join our Facebook fan page and follow us on Twitter.

www.famousfoodfinder.com

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Brandon
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#2 User is offline   Steven Dilley 

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Posted 12 November 2009 - 12:40 AM

Excellent stuff! I'd love a link to your FB page!
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Posted 12 November 2009 - 12:46 AM

QUOTE(Steven Dilley @ Nov 11 2009, 10:40 PM) View Post
Excellent stuff! I'd love a link to your FB page!


No problem! You can become a fan and follow the latest developments directly at the site. I hope you find great use out of it. We should have Man vs. Food added this week as well as some other small features. Be sure to check back often because updates are always occurring.

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Posted 12 November 2009 - 02:31 AM

Some of us don't watch TV or belong to Facebook. smile.gif
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Posted 12 November 2009 - 03:44 AM

QUOTE(TaliesinNYC @ Nov 12 2009, 12:31 AM) View Post
Some of us don't watch TV or belong to Facebook. smile.gif


Hey, no problem there! The primary use case for the site is to ultimately find good food whether you are staying local or traveling to a new area. You can still search the site without applying filters and just pull up places in the area you are interested in.
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Posted 12 November 2009 - 03:52 AM

What I reallly would like is the opposite kind of website. I can't tell you how many times I've been eating in a restaurant and thought, "I bet this place would be absolutely great on television." Some places would I think be much better on the tube and I might rather like to be sitting on my couch eating thai takeout and watching someone eat here than doing so myself. IT SEEMS WITH YOUR WEBSITE DATA you could implement a kind of "REVERSE" search and tell me which shows a restaurant is on??
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Posted 12 November 2009 - 05:10 AM

QUOTE(porkwah @ Nov 12 2009, 01:52 AM) View Post
What I reallly would like is the opposite kind of website. I can't tell you how many times I've been eating in a restaurant and thought, "I bet this place would be absolutely great on television." Some places would I think be much better on the tube and I might rather like to be sitting on my couch eating thai takeout and watching someone eat here than doing so myself. IT SEEMS WITH YOUR WEBSITE DATA you could implement a kind of "REVERSE" search and tell me which shows a restaurant is on??


I think I follow what you are saying up until you get to the end. If you take a peak at the advanced search you can filter out the restaurants based on the show they appeared on. Each color also represents a show so that you can visually distinguish the different places and the shows they have been featured on. Could you elaborate a little bit more on what it is you would like to see if I didn't already cover it. laugh.gif
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Posted 12 November 2009 - 03:15 PM

i don't think you can describe yourselves as famous food finder. i'd never heard of you before. i think you should change everything on your site to just food finder.

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Posted 12 November 2009 - 03:18 PM

it's the food that's famous, duh
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Posted 12 November 2009 - 04:29 PM

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You don't have permission to access / on this server.

Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

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Posted 12 November 2009 - 05:30 PM

I am one of the Forbidden ones also -

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Posted 12 November 2009 - 05:35 PM

I saw a place that looked good in a movie once.

Can you help?
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Posted 12 November 2009 - 06:17 PM

For those experiencing errors accessing the site, I will need to look into this. There should not be any issues and checking the site now shows no problems.

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I saw a place that looked good in a movie once.

Can you help?


Sure, what movie?
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Posted 12 November 2009 - 06:20 PM

cool idea, good luck.. I see some of the bobby flay throwdowns are missing.. A Salt and Battery for one..
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Posted 12 November 2009 - 06:22 PM

QUOTE(Famous Food Finder @ Nov 12 2009, 01:17 PM) View Post
For those experiencing errors accessing the site, I will need to look into this. There should not be any issues and checking the site now shows no problems.

I have the same error message checking from work... will try again from home.
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