Thing #6

I recently discovered urban spoon . This website allows people to find restaurants by city. When going to the address, the websites automatically populates the city by the users ISP. From there they can choose to narrow the search field by either surrounding cities, type of food, or just search an alphabetized list. However, if the user wants to find a restaurant in a different city than where they live, they can choose any other city in the United States. The website also lists the top voted restaurants in the city and has feedback from users who have been there. Once a person has selected a restaurant, they can see the phone number and address of the establishment and then click on a hyperlink to a map for directions.

This site would be great for new comers to a city or for someone looking for something new. The website is easy to use and navigate. However, my only dislike is that the alphabetized list does not have a short cut to search by letter. I was interested in seeing just how detailed the list was and searched for some obscure restaurants in Clarksville, one being Silke's, and I had to scroll through all of the 100+ other places to find it.

This website could be useful in a statistic class, math, or even economics. Each restaurant lists a percentage of how many people liked or disliked it. A math teacher could use this to find averages of restaurants liked in Clarksville. Each restaurant also lists the expected price, so students in an economics class could figure out a budget for a family to eat out on.