News

San Francisco Citysearch and Food.com make web-based ordering for take-out services easier

Food is serious business in San Francisco, and going to dinner can be an event -- but sometimes the most appealing thing on the menu is "fast and easy." Thanks to San Francisco Citysearch, Bay Area residents now have access to America's easiest online ordering service for restaurant delivery and take-out.

March 30, 2003

SAN FRANCISCO--March 31, 2003--Food is serious business in San Francisco, and going to dinner can be an event -- but sometimes the most appealing thing on the menu is "fast and easy." Thanks to San Francisco Citysearch, Bay Area residents now have access to America's easiest online ordering service for restaurant delivery and take-out. San Francisco Citysearch, utilizing Food.com's state-of-the-art technology, now offers online ordering services for many of its restaurants at www.sanfrancisco.citysearch.com. From pizza to pasta, Chinese to cheeseburgers, a growing selection of diverse cuisine is available to Web-savvy diners in the Bay Area for restaurant delivery and take-out. Once an innovation in itself, ordering restaurant food for take-out and delivery is now easier, faster and simpler. Ordering online eliminates annoying customer service problems such as endless stretches of being on hold while trying to place a phone order, disconnections or the need to spell an order three times before it is understood. Food.com understands that ordering food to go is supposed to make life easier in these overstressed and harried times, and has created one of the most reliable versions of online restaurant ordering with full menus, personalization options, memory for past orders and complete customer service. Order pizza with spinach, pepperoni and half mushrooms on Friday nights? Just click on "My Usual Orders" and with the personal favorites feature you won't need to repeat yourself. Never want wasabi on your California Rolls? Special orders are always accommodated. The work to home transition is difficult and time consuming enough without a stop at the grocery store, or last minute cell phone calls asking impatient waiters what's on the menu. The next step in dining in without having to cook is to throw out all the paper, toss the phone numbers and just log on. Visit www.sanfrancisco.citysearch.com, click on restaurants and choose from one of the many restaurants that have the takeout/delivery option available. Citysearch is the leading site on the Web for comprehensive restaurant information with more than nine million unique users. San Francisco is one of the first cities to feature the delivery and take-out function powered by Food.com. Additional markets are planned to be introduced throughout 2003. Food.com is the enabling technology behind Citysearch's delivery and take out services. Food.com allows customers to log onto a restaurant's website, review the menu and place a personalized order. Orders are submitted to the individual restaurant and immediately processed -- without confusion, without paper, without phone bills. To review Citysearch's list of restaurants offering delivery and take out services, visit www.sanfrancisco.citysearch.com. Restaurants interested in learning more about how to increase sales through online ordering can contact Sal Fuentes, VP Sales and Marketing, at 415/403-5200. For more information about Citysearch, Food.com or online restaurant ordering, contact Jennifer Barry at 310/822-3997 or jbarry@thebarrygroup.net.