Restaurants and the Internet

One topic that I love when it comes to restaurants is when they interact with the customers not in a overwhelming way where they put a twitter up every hour and need to reply to useless things. The fact that they even have a twitter is a great plus for me I love to give instant feed back to the places I go to.

For example your at X location and you dislike their service you can tweet not only to all your followers aka friends on twitter but also to the restaurants twitter there for no need to call them later, write a letter snail mail, or a e-mail. Text and send in a few buttons. Your letting go of your frustration and letting them know where to improve. Whats even better is if they actually reply eventually letting you know how they can improve it doesn't have to be anything fancy but letting me know that this won't happen again makes me pleased.

The same goes for Facebook pages many companies have decided to go the route of having a Facebook page to let customers know about special events, coupons and other things of interest, plus its always fun when you get a free app or dessert just for "liking" them :). Same concept you can let them know how you feel and everyone else is able to read what you wrote.

Few things you should always have on your website along with a Facebook or Twitter account,

Store Hours (I went to Chilis today and had no idea what hours they operated everything was a telephone message where you there wasn't even a option to hear the hours)

Directions and an Address- I always find it handy because I use my GPS on my phone to just copy and paste the location and wabam I am there without any trouble.

Menu and Pricing- I like to scope out what I want to eat before hand without taking a million years at the restaurant deciding what to get. Knowing the price is also great I hate having a surprise tab added to my check (again Chili's didn't list their drink prices!!)

and finally a phone number if all fails and nothing above is listed (which are the basics) I can always rely on a phone number and hopefully that won't be machine operated.

BTW restaurants if you plan on having a flash website please spend some money for a mobile version my smartphone does not support flash and when I can't see anything at all because of my failure to have flash I just won't bother to go to your place I would rather check out another restaurant then waste my time trying to figure out all of your information on different websites.

Thats pretty much my jist on food places and the internet a quick blog since I didn't feel like writing a review.

Tiffany
Btw my camera is currently out of town soo that means all the places I go this week are going to be snapped shots on the BB.
I ate at
D'amico Kitchen
Chili's
today different price points and atmosphere for both lol.

The Sea Salt Eatery

The Sea Salt Eatery

4825 Minnehaha Ave South
Minneapolis Mn
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http://seasalteatery.wordpress.com/

Only open half of the year (April2-October31) with fresh seafood I had to check this eatery out before it went back to hibernation. Located in Minneapolis and having the Minnehaha Falls as the backyard pretty much gives it a nice feel to the restaurant.

A few things you need to know about the restaurant before heading out there to eat.

1.The parking - you need to find in a lot where you have to pay there is a toll machine where you buy a ticket to place on your dashboard it does get full so expect to park either on the streets where its metered or the next lot over the Machines located in the lots do accept credit cards and are priced at 75cents a hour (you will get a ticket if you don’t purchase one to place on your dashboard because the parking police checks frequently).

2. There is usually a long line during lunch hours the wait can be about a few minutes to even 20min. and if your only waiting to grab the Sebastian Joes ice cream they serve there is a separate line usually with no wait.

3. Seating on a sunny day the outdoor seating they have is great patio and some tables just outside of the restaurant, On rainy days or cooler weather they have a building connected to the restaurant where there are plenty of tables next to a big fireplace to sit.

4. Serving- Once you place your food order you go look for a place to eat the food usually comes 10-15min after ordering they call out your name to find where you have decided to sit to eat.

Finally onto the food I ordered

They have a list of local breweries of beer they carry but considering the fact that I am still underage (almost legal in October!) I ordered pop to go with my meal of Fried Shrimp Po Boy and my sister had ordered the Tilapia Fish tacos
Tacos were descent too much of the salsa added for my taste and the Fried Shrimp Po Boy was delicious loved the sauce and how much shrimp I got definitely my money’s worth.

Overall Rating
Those are the facts and basics for The Sea Salt Eatery I enjoyed the service I received the food was good decently priced .I would definitely come back and try some more of their food.

So Have fun eating the seafood and explore the area with the falls and there is also a wheel fun location right next to the place where you can rent bikes and little bike cars to go around with :)

Hooray

My first post on this blog I've decided with the title and name for this blog
Meet- Because you meet with people while eating (nothing wrong with eating by yourself though)
Seat- You get seated obviously before taking in the calories
Eat- Chow down time baby!

yay I have a large list of places I've gone to already and getting ready to post up my thoughts and opinions along with the pictures of food I've tried and tasted. I try to eat at a location at least twice before giving it a review and all of my opinions are honest :)
Btw I'm a huge fan of websites like Groupon LivingSocial and CrowdCut so a few of the locations I will be writing about are from those sites (best value and saves me some moola).

Have fun reading, judging, leave a comment I love others opinions and thoughts on places and trying new places from suggestions.
Btw I Live in the Twin Cities of MN thats why everything is from MN!
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Ti