There are quite a few restaurant and food recommendation apps such as Dinevore, TV Foodmaps, Alfred, and Yelp. And that's only a few of them. Chefs Feed aims to change...

Read More: Don’t trust your friends when it comes to restaurant recommendations? Try Chefs Feed

One of my favorite new interview questions to give potential product managers for our team is:  “What’s the best restaurant in Hong Kong?” On the surface, it’s a simple question – but it’s a wonderfully nuanced and complex question at the core.  I’ll get the puzzled look, and they’ll tell me that they’ve never been [...]

Read More: The half-life of a Hong Kong restaurant review

10 years ago the restaurant industry was simple. Once every couple of months a food critic would come along and you would cook your best food and await the review in the newspaper with baited breath. Then restaurant review sites came along and changed all that. Anybody could leave a review but they were mostly biased and for the most part the system didn’t work that well. Now things have changed completely.It’s all down to mobiles, apps and social media and restaurants are faced with a new wave [...]

Read More: How mobile, apps and social media have changed the restaurant industry

How granular are we going to get with check-ins and reviews? How about down to the dish level? That's what the new free Nosh for iPhone service and app sets out to do.NoshNosh provides the following functions:+ Rate and review dishes, not places. After all, it's the food that matters.
+ Keep up with friends and see what they're eating. Follow friends, or anyone so long as they have great tastes!
+ Find out "what's good here". No more relying on the w [...]

Read More: Nosh: Restaurant Food Sharing App (if you can find someone to share with)

I'm glad that more and more companies are putting significant effort into their social media programs. Really, I am. But, we can't let enthusiasm obfuscate reality, and that seems to be occurring with alarming regularity these days in all corners of the social Web. The most recent example to cross my inbox is from restaurant

Read More: Did This National Restaurant Chain Put Too Much Love Into the Like?

I’m glad that more and more companies are putting significant effort into their social media programs. Really, I am. But, we can’t let enthusiasm obfuscate reality, and that seems to be occurring with alarming regularity these days in all corners of the social Web. The most recent example to cross my inbox is from restaurant

Read More: Did This National Restaurant Chain Put Too Much Love Into the Like?

I’m glad that more and more companies are putting significant effort into their social media programs. Really, I am. But, we can’t let enthusiasm obfuscate reality, and that seems to be occurring with alarming regularity these days in all corners of the social Web. The most recent example to cross my inbox is from restaurant

Read More: Did This National Restaurant Chain Put Too Much Love Into the Like?