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About Dining With Us

 

 

Online since November 4^th 2002, Dining With Us is the only web advertising company to offer detailed 3D tours of its clients’ restaurants. We are also proud to be the only website to display exceptionally beautiful photographs of our clients’ establishments, detailing every quality feature that will distinguish each restaurant individuality.

Our website presents Barbadian restaurants to the global market in an exquisite manner, allowing tourists from the world over as well as our very own local and regional dinners to experience the ambience of our customers’ restaurants, and hence increase their desire to dine with them. In April 2005, our website made a significant jump on many search engines including; Goggle, MSN, Yahoo and several other well known search engines, of which Dining With Us was listed in the top 5 options for an internet surfer.

The Dining With Us website is very customer friendly; it enables a potential customer to make informed decisions about menus, price ranges and locations as well as booking reservations. Our detailed tours have subsequently had a direct impact on a guests choosing of exactly where they wish to sit and with what view before their first visit to one of the restaurants featured on our website.

 

 

About a Leader

Mr. Hayden Browne is the entrepreneur behind Dining With US, he gained his secondary education at the Ellerslie Secondary School and at the age of seventeen entered the hospitality industry. Here he was trained in many sub-trades and can now fill many hats within the hospitality industry.

Mr. Browne’s drive to become a business owner as well as his customer service disposition allowed him to identify and fulfil the need for a service which is offered today by Dining With Us. As a young bartender Hayden noticed the effects of a lack of information available to potential customers through traditional means of advertising for restaurants. He also noticed that the price of advertising the qualities of a restaurant which may be difficult to express was very expensive to any restaurant owner. He therefore set himself on a mission to provide this service at a quality comparable to none, and at a cost from which the business owner could see returns in the near future.

This mission along with Hayden’s craze for computer technology led him to web designing from which Dining With Us was born. The rush to produce a fashionable websites of the time was not on Mr. Browne’s agenda; instead he decided to bring a concept which was truly unique to the market. With little to no formal experience in the field, little guidance, and zero credibility Mr. Browne created a website which gave potential customers a guided tour of the fine restaurants of Barbados, where they could plan to detail and even decide on the view they wished to enjoy while dining.

 

 

 

Objectives by Hayden Browne

 

When I started working on this project, I envisioned the way things are going to be and thought, five years from now how many people are going to take a book off the shelf and look at listings of where they want to go out? They’re going to go on the web or they’re cell phones and they are going to find content there. What’s the most compelling way to present content in these mediums? I think videos or virtual tours are probably the best way in doing that.

 

There is a lot of other information I want to gather about a restaurant and that information can support the video. When I look into the future I see videos or virtual tours being probably the number one way people will make a decision about where to spend money when they go out.

 

 

 

There is a large interest in actually being there and seeing the place before one makes a decision in where they spend they’re money. If someone is into food and would like to find out about restaurants, it's really helpful for them to find out about the chef, what their philosophy is on various dishes and actually see the restaurant. In addition, they may see what the atmosphere is like, what the people are wearing, and what kind of food they're offering etc… I want to be able to convey that quickly in a video or virtual tour where one would normally have to spend a lot more time in a written review.

 

 

Dinners Benefits

.  Access to full restaurant details.

.  Virtual 3D Tours that allow viewers to “walk” through the restaurant.

.  Video Reviews (new feature)

.  Full menus (Updated Daily)

.  Food Shots

.  Professional restaurant Photos

.  Feeling the Ambience

.  Seeing Restaurant Pictures and Logos

.  Chefs details and pictures

.  Satellite Map Directions

.  Address/Maps/Directions

.  Access to Full Contact Details. (Phone or Email)

.  Keeping up-to-date with Specials, promotions, Events & Entertainment.

.  Opening/Booking times

.  Capacity or seating requirements

.  95% Visible on search engines with the use of many keywords.

.  Find Restaurant by Name Search.

.  Find Restaurant by Area Search

.  Find Restaurant by Coast Search.

.  Find Restaurant by Cuisine Search

.  Gift cards (coming soon)

.  User Reviews/Voting (coming Soon)

 

 

Local and international visitors are able to use the online magazine to find their choice of restaurant. Once Traffic gets on the website each visitor can filter through our database and choose specifically what they are looking for. It’s truly amazing when a potential diner chooses and can describe a table in your restaurant without ever having visited before.

 

 

 

Restaurateur’s Benefits

 

Showcasing Your Restaurant (3d Tour/Video)

With the help of DWU, you can boast your restaurant’s beauty in full detail to anyone in the world that’s on the worldwide web.

 

Directing Traffic

Many restaurants advertise in magazines such as “Ins & Outs of Barbados”. Most Ads display a basic menu and a contact number while others may showcase an out of date website. Our research has shown that people read these magazines to find out about restaurants, and then go online to research more (the same applies for business cards without the web address). DWU can help your restaurant in this domain.

 

Enhanced Customer Service

Many restaurants receive emails and phone calls on a daily basis about Directions, menus, chefs and more. Let us help your restaurant place that information online. This enhanced customer service is an extension of your clients’ entire dining experience which translates into enhanced diner satisfaction.

 

Free Menu Updates

When a restaurant changes a menu, it’s important to let your potential diners know this in advance. Web Masters are usually expensive on updating websites and at times make take a while to update. It’s our job to keep your clients up to date on all restaurant information, so we gladly update menus on a daily basis, free of charge, once you’re a member of DWU.

 

Photo Updates

Restaurant owners’ are always looking to upgrade their restaurants to keep their diners satisfied. We are just one Call/Email away to schedule a photo shoot update.

 

Saving Money on Websites

Web designers’ may charge as much as $5000 for a website. This is not an ideal cost for most restaurateurs. With this being said, let us help you design a website that’s attractive and affordable. Even if it’s a personal website or copyright of DWU.

 

Saving Money on Photography

The average upscale photographer may charge $150 or higher per photo.  Photography is included in your sign up fee. We will ensure that every beautiful area in your restaurant will be captured with our hi-tech photography equipment.

 

Directions

Every once in a while there is a call for directions. Let us showcase your restaurant’s location on a satellite map, having gas stations, shopping areas and hotels as land marks. The satellite map will demonstrate detail to a client to more readily assist them in finding your exact location in an area.

 

Site Visits & Hits

Depending on the time of year DWU’s dining site ranges from 5,000 – 60,000 visitors per month. Hits ranging from 200,000 – 350,000 Monthly

 

Search Engines

www.DiningWithUs.Com produces many clicks by internet surfers due to the quality of its name. Our website appears on the first page of all major search engines when all or any of the above phrases are used. The search engines include; Ask.Com, Yahoo.Com, Google.com, Msn.Com and Dogpile.Com.

A potential patron searching the internet for restaurants in Barbados is likely to type the following words or phrases-

 

 Dining in Barbados

 Barbados Fine Dining

 Fine dining in Barbados

 Restaurants in Barbados

 Barbados Dining

 Barbados Restaurants

 <Your Restaurant Name> restaurant Barbados

 

Profits

Some restaurants onboard request a deposit to secure a booking. DWU doesn’t look at this as a means of profit; however we are geared to improve the connection of the client with your restaurant so they would indulge friends and family about their dining experience.

 

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