If you are short on info about the dining options in your city, you need to check out the new site Needgrub.com that acts as a guide for restaurants in India. For now, they are offering the info on restaurants in two Indian cities, Bangalore and Chennai. The director of the endeavor Anu Parthasarathy enriched us with his take on the site.
The basic idea behind the website is to help people find a great place to eat in their city, when and where they want to. They are trying to provide the information they need to find the right restaurant, using the tools they need like extensive search options, extended information, maps and more. Its essentially a restaurant guide. The key being that the users not only get other user’s opinion about a restaurant, but also having Professional Food writers to give their opinion about a restaurant, the information on the writers and critics will soon be published online.
Here are a few questions that I asked from Anu Parthasarathy.
1. Are you going to cover the luxury restaurants, hygienic places, or everything that will come your way?
To us, any place that serves food or drink comes under our roof. We encourage any eatery to be listed on our website. Our target audience is from any walk of life, thus providing a wide variety of places to eat is key. Also, our team strongly believes that even the smallest road side stall has something to offer to people. We are trying to focus on getting from the smallest of restaurants and the big star rated restaurants get the same visibility on the internet. Of course, we list them at slow pace, so our food writers can catch up with the places we enlist as well. We eventually will be the ICON and reference point in understand restaurants and eating out in India. Our focus will stay within in the food industry.
2. Your comments on recent “Yahoo! India Plagiarism” that is witnessing a strong protest from desi food bloggers
Oh, I totally agree with the bloggers. Plagiarism is obviously not acceptable. I am a blogger myself, not too active, but I do voice my opinions when I have to. Using somebody’s content without permission is of course not right. All it probably takes is a few minutes to write to the blogger to get their permission to print their content. So, yeah I understand the bolgger’s frustration over this issue.
So, it’s the time you start writing your reviews about the restaurants for the foodie people. And, you can find the best one for yourself too.
