Menu and Hours: A New App for Your Appetite
September 23, 2012
Recently Mark Wilson, in his piece over at the Fast Company blog, “This (Perfect?) Restaurant App Offers Just The Menu And The Hours,” covered a new, sleek and efficient restaurant review app and was kind enough to share with the rest of us. Frustrated with her own experiences as a hungry Louisvillian fumbling through her phone for suggestions, developer Michelle Jones decided to re-think the overcooked apps she’d come to hate. She started by trimming the fat. Menus and Hours is a food app that gives you just that: the menu and the hours of your city’s eateries. By removing so many of the industry’s superfluous garnishes from its design, Menus and Hours delivers only what you need and exactly how you need it.
As Wilson states in his post:
“While apps like Urbanspoon are designed with a gimmick at the core–a like button, restaurant randomizer…a way someone might want to interact with something–Menu and Hours is scaffolded around the root functions it’s meant to serve, to give someone very specific data. And at the end of the day, pretty pictures are nice, but that discernibility of information is always what’s most important.”
The only draw back: Jones’ database only contains info on restaurants in Louisville, Kentucky, the only city currently supported by Menus and Hours. Although the app is only available to the famished and indecisive of the Blue Grass State, it’s easy to see the mass appeal of such a finely tuned piece of programming. Hopefully the rest of us will not have to wait too much longer; it is almost lunchtime.
Michael Ison, September 23, 2012
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
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