) October 24, 2009 -- The idea behind The Restaurant Section is for restaurant owners to affordably market their restaurants online by creating a complete fact sheet on their business profile within The Restaurant Section. Once the profile is complete, The Restaurant Section begins to market the restaurants. Clifford Bramble, the founder of The Restaurant Section wanted to pass on his experience about marketing and publicizing a restaurant to other restaurant owners. And with the technology available, and the economy on a rebound, he feels that now is the perfect time to start.

) July 13, 2009 -- GrubHub.com, the only service that shows all the restaurants that deliver and allows users to order directly online, announced today their beta launch in Washington, D.C. GrubHub.com currently operates in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia, and now the Washington, D.C./Arlington, VA area. GrubHub.com is a free service that gives access to over 8,000 menus and works with over 2,000 restaurants to provide online and phone ordering.

Who delivers to your home or office? GrubHub.com answers this question for you. Users type in their address on GrubHub.com, and the page displays every restaurant that delivers to that location, with the restaurants' menus, hours for delivery, available coupons, and reviews.

) October 27, 2009 -- My Parent Rewards - the family savings program that helps hard-working families save money while serving as a fundraiser for schools and charities - is officially launching in the United States.

My Parent Rewards (MPR) replaces the old fashioned coupon books sold through schools. MPR is web 2.0 for coupons. Parents simply log on to the MPR website (www.MyParentRewards.com), enter their zip code and get exclusive 2-for-1 savings (and up to 50% off) on family fun, dining out, travel, sports and shopping discounts at over 100,000 locations across North America.

) November 11, 2008 -- A year ago this month, Kitty Rosu a mother of four, launched what started as a simple two page website listing kids eat free nights and printable coupons. The site began as a place for her and her girlfriends to share new kids meal deals and online coupons. Much to her surprise, the site has taken on a life of its own generating a rapidly growing list of over 3,000 loyal subscribers to date for her email alerts (2,000 sign-ups in the last 4 months alone), and has suddenly turned her online coupon clipping past-time into one of the hottest new "mommy blogs" to hit the Internet in 2008.

Coupon Divas - Printable Coupons

) July 24, 2009 -- Synergy Restaurant Consultants has launched a new website to help restaurants promote their value priced deals and restaurant promotions. Oh yeah, and did we mention that they're doing it for free?

eMeal Alerts logo

) May 12, 2009 -- DC City Blog and AllMenus.com today announced a partnership to offer visitors to Allmenus.com access to original DC City Blog reviews of restaurants in DC.

DC City Blog

The partnership reflects AllMenus.com mission to provide DC area residents with online access to local restaurant menus as well as the ability to order food online for takeout or delivery and DC City Blog's mission to provide area residents with premium content, produced by local writers.

) October 15, 2008 -- BooRah, the leading restaurant-specific online review guide, today announced the launch of its free, location-enabled Web Services API for Web sites and businesses looking to offer online restaurant reviews and ratings to their visitors. BooRah's Web Services API delivers the same core semantic technology that powers BooRah.com and BooRah's award winning Yahoo! SearchMonkey application, along with applications suitable for portals, local newspaper publishers and location-enabled phones.

"BooRah's API offers comprehensive restaurant search capability along with unique 'Boo' and 'Rah' ratings unavailable from any other website," said Eric Moyer, CEO and Co-Founder of BooRah.

) August 25, 2008 -- Eva Magnus, the owner of Grafica said, "I am glad to offer these additional services, as with the rising cost of food, some restaurants have been losing money by waiting to redo their menus and not passing on the increased (food) costs to their customers soon enough. My fees are reasonable, and if the restaurant updates their layout, an increase in food sales should be expected. We offer laminated menus, as well as menus with a variety of different covers to choose from...or if there are existing menu covers, updating just the inserts is an option. After I supply the artwork for the new menu, the restaurant owner has the option of having Grafica print them."

ChineseFoodLocations.com is a new website that has archived the addresses and phone numbers of Chinese restaurants across the United States. (PRWeb Feb 25, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/02/prweb2164384.htm

) December 23, 2008 - The votes have been cast and by an overwhelming majority, I Must Eat - www.imusteat.com is the winner. I Must Eat is the most comprehensive online ordering internet restaurant dining guide out in the marketplace today.

It began at the grassroots level. It started as a small rumbling of stomachs but quickly became the number one issue of foodies across the United States. People were hungry for a nationwide online ordering restaurant dining guide and they demanded action.

) April 30, 2009 -- TourSpot's travel and city guide application is now available in the Apple App Store. TourSpot has created a city guide application for the iPhone with innovative features like social network integration with Facebook, live and interactive maps, mobile coupons, and live travel content.

TourSpot New York Tour

TourSpot's travel content is written by travel writers. Whenever possible, TourSpot provides links to relevant Wikipedia articles that provide its users even more information about points of interest.

) March 18, 2009 -- Think outside the box when dealing with the impact of a recession. That's what successful moms are doing, using a more creative approach to saving money at home and finding effective ways to manage household expenses with free coupons online.

Printable online coupons save money at the register.

) November 10, 2008 -- Restaurant owners are facing an unprecedented crisis in cash flow. The Restaurant Performance Index as compiled by the National Restaurant Association is at its lowest point in history. The index tracks indicators such as capital expenditures, customer traffic, sales volume and labor costs and points to a deteriorating situation across all 50 states. At the same time, the restaurants are being hard hit by the on-going credit crises. Many are being locked out of access to short-term loans essential for operations.

) March 29, 2009 -- Savings and value Web site redplum.com (http://www.redplum.com) announced today a new mobile text messaging program to promote Kellogg's new Raisin Bran® Extra cereal.

The campaign is noteworthy as it combines traditional print advertising with text messaging and electronic coupons to help support the launch of Kellogg's new product: Kellogg's Raisin Bran® Extra. Consumers who text the word "EXTRA" to a short code will receive instructions for getting their digital $1 off coupon for Kellogg's Raisin Bran®*. It will be advertised in the RedPlum Free-Standing Insert (FSI) March 29th in five select markets.

) September 12, 2009 -- GroupExclusives.com offers collegiate, youth, amateur and association team travel planners a fun and creative way to receive cost and time saving bids direct from hotels and restaurants. With the introduction of the restaurant RFP functionality, the site now offers complete hotel and meal solutions to traveling sports teams.

GroupExclusives.com Home page

) April 13, 2009 -- GoodFoodNearYou won first place in the prestigious Andrew Seybold Mobile Innovation Rally and AppWar during the 2009 CTIA Wireless show in Las Vegas, Nevada.

"We were thrilled to be a part of the Innovation Rally and AppWar at CTIA Wireless and are honored to receive this award from Andrew Seybold," says Nick Desai, CEO of Global Fitness Media, the company developing GoodFoodNearYou. Desai is the Founder, Chairman and former CEO of Juice Wireless, and inventor of JuiceCaster, an award winning mobile social networking service offered by AT&T, T-Mobile, Nokia and others.

) September 16, 2008 -- Smash Deals Inc. has launched a new social networking website at http://www.smashdeals.com/, allowing web users to obtain and share coupon codes, online deals and special promotions for online retailers.

Smash Deals website offers coupon codes for hundreds of online retailers and allows anyone to submit new codes.

PhoenixCouponsOnline.com, the premier online coupon site, will feature discount coupons and savings

from local businesses, for local shoppers. Just find a coupon, click, print and save.

) May 20, 2009 -- Dealzin.com is proud to announce the launch of its new website, helping online shoppers find coupon codes, discounts and bargains for thousands of items: from electronics, computers and cameras to household items, beauty products, apparel, garden items, and food & wine. The website helps consumers save money with quick access to thousands of free coupons and incredible product deals that are rarely found on other sites.

) October 8, 2009 -- A new social couponing website, CouponFollow.com, launched its beta version to the public today. CouponFollow is geared towards social bargain hunters and fully integrates with the popular social media platform Twitter, using Twitter's open API.

) April 30, 2009 -- Newly launched Iteya.com saves customers up to 90% off retail at hundreds of stores. Users can view coupons, specials, sales, and clearances at online stores and print out coupons to use on groceries. Plus, every online purchase can earn its users up to half their money back in gift certificates.

) August 22, 2009 -- "Chef of the Month", a new feature launching in print and online in the Pocono Record will bring the chefs and restaurants in the vibrant Pocono area restaurant scene to readers. The feature also provides exciting opportunities for some great discount coupons and a rare opportunity to win a free meal served personally by a local chef.

) June 5, 2009 -- Pharmaceutical and medical sales representatives can now take advantage of a fast, reliable online lunch scheduling tool, at myRepLunch partnered with Blue Water Media to develop and launch an application that is beneficial to sales reps, medical offices and restaurants altogether.

myRepLunch's interactive tool benefits sales representatives by simplifying the scheduling of lunch meetings and allowing them to easily keep track of all expenses associated with those meetings. myRepLunch removes unnecessary catering duties from salespeople so that they can focus on achieving their business goals.

) February 18, 2009 -- GoodFoodNearYou is now available to use for free on the web, Apple iPhone and iPod touch and RIM BlackBerry mobile devices. GoodFoodNearYou is an easy to use location based search to find the healthiest food at the restaurants near you. The GoodFoodNearYou free mobile applications for BlackBerry mobile devices are available to download on GoodFoodNearYou.com.

) November 19, 2008 -- Messageware (www.messageware.com), the world's leading provider of enterprise productivity and security solutions for Outlook Web Access, today announced that Schwartz Brothers Restaurants, the Northwest's premier multi-concept restaurant and food business, has selected Messageware Plus Pack.

) May 8, 2009 -- Synergy Restaurant Consultants is excited to announce that premier restaurant designer Margee Drews will partner with the firm as Senior Associate heading up restaurant conversions, remodels and new concept design. Margee Drews has an incredible eye for turning space and restaurant design visions into reality.

Margee Drews

) December 3, 2008 -- Schedulefly, the leader in online restaurant scheduling, announced today a new business deal with Planet Hollywood. Planet Hollywood, a world renowned dining venue, selected Schedulefly to be used in six restaurant locations serving over 1,000 unique users in the system. The solution improves employee communication and streamlines the scheduling process.

) September 3, 2009 -- Schedulefly, a leading web-based employee scheduling and communication application for restaurants, announced today that it is being leveraged at the United States Tennis Association's (USTA) 2009 US Open at Arthur Ashe Stadium. The scheduling tool will be used to streamline employee scheduling and communications for more than 35 restaurant staff in the USTA President's Suite, thereby enhancing the dining experience for the 180 patrons the suite can accommodate for both lunch and dinner each day of the event.

Channel One Networks Implements Search Engine and Video Site for Local Restaurants

) June 16, 2009 -- CheapDeals101.com launches to help shoppers locate the best bargains online from thousands of retailers, in an easy to view format. Cheapdeals101.com searches through thousands of websites to locate the best online deals, and unbeatable bargains from reputed retailers like Amazon.com, Bestbuy.com, Newegg.com, and Buy.com. The website is updated daily and brings online the best deals for a range of products: laptops, cameras, cell phones, credit cards, p3 deals, books, clothes, travel and more.

Infozeal Inc is delighted to announce the launch of deals and coupons aggregator website Dealsglobe.com. Dealsglobe.com is an automated and intelligent platform which scans millions of product listings every day from hundreds of merchants and filters very best products with special offers, deals, coupons, promotions, rebates. Dealsglobe.com offers many great features including.
* Automated and Intelligent Platform which Extracts Top Deals and Coupons
* Social Media Touch Where Users Can Vote, Discuss and Share Deals
* Deals are Sorted based on User Activity and many other Factors
* Browse Merchant Promotional Banners to Find Sales, Coupons, Discounts
* Intuitive, Attractive and Easy to Use Graphical User Interface
* Access Deals Picked by Admin and Users

) March 24, 2009 -- Today, Gekko announced the launch of Gekko.com in Beta, the first online service that uses proprietary technology to find places or 'spots' suited to your tastes based on your unique profile and the preferences of likeminded people. Unlike most travel, review or lifestyle sites, Gekko.com gives people an easy way to find an ideal place without searching through the hundreds of thousands of hotels, restaurants, bars and clubs available online.

Restaurants across America help spread awareness of gluten intolerances by participating in the Chef to Plate Awareness Campaign in May as part of Celiac Awareness Month. Dining out can be difficult for persons with celiac disease and other forms of gluten intolerances. Restaurants offering gluten-free meal options are being proactive in helping 15 million Americans dine out without fear. Chef to Plate celebrates these restaurants during Celiac Awareness Month. (PRWeb Apr 7, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/04/prweb2301444.htm

) October 14, 2009 -- Delivering discounts directly to the computer screens of Canadian shoppers, SurfMyAds.com, Inc. is introducing CA.PromotionalCodes.com, a discount coupon website created specifically for Canadian consumers, today. As an extension of PromotionalCodes.com, the company's leading US retail website, http: //CA.PromotionalCodes.com was developed in an effort to simplify the online shopping experience for Canadian users by offering online coupons for top Canadian-based merchants as well as US retailers that offer shipping options to Canada.

) October 9, 2008 -- BeFreeForMe.com, the first and only web site to offer coupons and samples to gluten and food allergy-free consumers, will go live today. The creation of food marketing industry veteran and fellow celiac Kathleen Reale, BeFreeForMe.com is a web-based business that provides individuals with celiac disease and food allergies with a direct link to coupons and product samples.

BeFreeForMe.com

) August 1, 2009 -- This week voucher website Savoo launched their newly designed website, aimed at making voucher code savings even more beneficial to consumers.

Shoppers are giving a big thumbs up to both the fresh new look and the advanced features, including Today's Top Vouchers which highlights great promotions such as Dell vouchers. This allows savvy shoppers to see the latest and best deals available on the net as they happen.

) October 28, 2008 --
Numbers released today by online coupon aggregator tjoos.com indicate
that online spending patterns are rapidly changing and order sizes are
down by 30% in the face of the current economic turmoil.

) November 18, 2008 -- In spite of the economic environment there is a silver lining for many online shoppers this holiday season. Retailers are competing desperately for every customer and the result is an abundance of online deals and coupons. Perhaps one of the best new sources for these online bargains is Couponers.com, a relatively new web site on the scene featuring online coupons and sales in user friendly and search able format. Couponers.com features a database of current online coupons and deals from over 1000 stores with real time updates maintained every hour of the day by a team of employees.

) November 22, 2008 -- CouponsDealsPromos.com is pleased to announce their new Black Friday,holiday shopping and Cyber Monday Exclusive Coupons and Discounts at their new 2008 holiday shopping coupons outlet. In this economy consumers can save a lot of money and time when shopping online using our best hand picked deals which are selected daily. Approaching Black Friday November 28th the day after Thanksgiving and the official start of the holiday shopping season, CouponsDealsPromos has added their best promotional coupons, promo codes and free offers from thousands of well-known online brands, making CouponsDealsPromos.com the best destination for bargain savvy holiday shoppers.

) April 8, 2009 -- In just two and a half years, TrialPay's Get It Free solution has helped more than 7,500 premier sites increase sales by providing 30 million online shoppers compelling ways to pay. Now TrialPay is expanding its payment and promotions solutions to include a Purchase Incentive Platform, which lets online sellers optimize conversions and boost Average Order Value (AOV) while reducing promotional costs, like deep discounts and free shipping.