Urbanspoon Expands Internationally Through Partnerships With
Livebookings And Dimmi
SEATTLE, Nov. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/
-- Urbanspoon, the leading mobile restaurant discovery
application and reservation management system, today announced
international expansion through partnerships with leading online
reservation services Dimmi and Livebookings. Now, Urbanspoon
diners worldwide will have the ability to book reservations at
nearly 7,000 restaurants with the addition of Livebookings and
Dimmi reservation inventory. In the US alone, Urbanspoon is
now seating over 2 million US diners per month, a number that has
doubled in the last 6 months.
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"Our goal is to give diners the best tools along every step of
their dining experience, from finding the right restaurant, to
making a reservation and giving feedback on their meal," said
Kara Nortman, Senior Vice President,
Consumer Businesses, CityGrid. "Partnering with other great
companies, like Dimmi and Livebookings, extends our reservations
coverage to millions of Urbanspoon diners internationally."
"Partnering with Urbanspoon highlights our commitment to provide
our restaurant customers with access to more traffic," Guy
Halfhead, Vice President of Sales, Livebookings. "Urbanspoon's user
base represents high-quality diners looking to find and book
reservations; matching them with our reservation inventory makes
perfect sense to our business."
"Dimmi's goal is to provide our restaurant customers with access
to the best diners in the region and driving new reservations
through Urbanspoon allows us to deliver even more value to our
restaurants," said Stevan Premutico,
founder and CEO of Dimmi. "Urbanspoon is a popular source of
premier restaurant content in Australia and we're excited about integrating
our high-quality reservation product with their website and mobile
app."
Urbanspoon Now Available in Ireland
Urbanspoon's expansion into the international market also
includes coverage in Ireland, putting information and reviews on
more than 2,000 restaurants at the fingertips of Irish diners.
About Urbanspoon
Urbanspoon is a leading online local restaurant guide, aggregating
restaurant content from across the Web including newspapers,
professional food critics, bloggers and diners. Urbanspoon allows
diners to make restaurant reservations through its online booking
service, both on the Web and mobile. In addition, Urbanspoon offers
restaurants Urbanspoon Rezbook - a complete reservation and table
management system built to run on the Apple iPad. Urbanspoon is a
subsidiary of CityGrid Media, LLC (www.citygridmedia.com), an IAC
(NASDAQ: IACI) operating company, and is headquartered in
Seattle, Washington.
About Dimmi -
Australia's leading real-time
restaurant reservation and review website, Dimmi partners with more
than 2,500 restaurants nationwide and the country's leading online
restaurant guides to make recommendations and reservations a
no-stress affair. Founded in 2009, it has seated more than
three million Australian diners at restaurants ranging from hatted
fine dining establishments to more casual suburban eateries.
About Livebookings
Livebookings makes restaurants and diners click. We operate the
world's only global, web-based restaurant reservations and
marketing service, delivering over one million diners every month
to over 9,000 restaurants including, Tantris, East, Grill and
Aquavit. Our reservations tools enable restaurants to provide their
diners with a free, easy-to-use online bookings service, to manage
those reservations efficiently and to collect valuable customer
data. Our marketing services ensure restaurants can run promotions
and deals and execute online marketing campaigns to attract and
retain their customers.
Media Contact:
Brandi Willard
310.360.4602
brandi@urbanspoon.com
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