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| grazie Grazie, the Italian resto which always has a line, is just around the corner from Work. I have asked but never heard whether it warrants the line but as we well know reputation rules all in this city. Sunday night we had a bevie of movies and no interest in cleaning the kitchen enough to prepare dinner. Pizza held no interest so we decided to take another look at MenuPalace. This website is not about take-out ordering as it once was but is also just a way to gather all the restaurants together in one place. They also seem to have a successful business doing restaurant mini-websites. Or full-blown; it's hard to tell micro vs macro in the webword these days. But all the sites have a similar Flash-based style with music, sliding menus and a skip-able splash screen. I like this idea as it sets a standard for restos to follow -- there is nothing more annoying than a resto that considers itself upscale but it has a 1996 all-centered website. Food of an upscale nature is about look & ambience as well as taste so I think the website should look good as well. And I also like the idea of a micro-market of webdesign where a designer can focus on one idea and get it right. But conversely was the actual ordering process. Grazie sent us to RestaurantsOnTheGo.com which redirected to the ugly OrderIt.ca. It's a badly designed and badly organized site that seems more about providing business to businesses than it does providing an on-line ordering system. It may just be me but shouldn't I know exactly what to click on to place an order without having to guess at "Individual Solutions" ? From MenuPalace to the Grazie site to RestaurantsOnTheGo to OrderIt. And stupidly, I had to have both the Grazie menus page open as well as the OrderIt ordering form open, so that I would know what I was going to be eating. The food? The food was great. May 02 06 |
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I ate at Grazie once. It was Sept 11, 2001. The food was ok but I had other things on my mind that day, you know. If you want to see a bad food ordering site, try Pizza Pizza. I works great, but man, you need to click on about 20 things on 10 pages to get the order in. I was confused several time and I'm a web developer... how your average customer would find their way around on there I have no idea.
Posted by: gary at May 2, 2006 11:59 AM
Hmmm, maybe it's because I have used it many many times or because I have used soo much worse pizza sites but i kind of like the build-your-own pizza aspect of PizzaPizza.
Posted by: tbit at May 2, 2006 12:27 PM
good day!
Posted by: career at July 20, 2006 01:47 PM
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