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I’ve added a few new things to Hngry this week:

Restaurant pictures! Now you can upload up to 7 pictures per restaurant, per user, and they’ll appear on the restaurant page in Hngry. Take pictures of the restaurant itself, the food in particular, even you and your friends sharing a meal there… As long as it’s related to the restaurant at hand, it’s fair game. Ladies and gentlemen, start snapping those pictures and sharing them with the Hngry community. It’ll greatly help when others are trying to figure out what to eat, as they’ll be able to see the food itself and the general ambience/atmosphere of the restaurant. Here’s an example: Fricken Chicken. Note: The restaurant page will always show the latest 3 pictures from that particular restaurant. If there are 3 or more, an arrow will appear to the right of the images and you’ll be taken to the full gallery page. You can click on any of the images to view a larger version.

I’ve implemented a status bar around the site for searches. Now when you search for a restaurant, you’ll see the screen dim and a bar go across the screen for awhile. Hngry searches more than just its internal database to find restaurants for you, so sometimes search results take a little while to come up. This lets you know that Hngry is definitely still searching.

I’ve also implemented a couple of bug fixes around the site as well, as I’m always tightening up the code to make Hngry as stable as possible.

Later!

Just a quick note:  I finally got a chance to start on the revamped Hngry help section.  More will be coming as this week goes on, but I’ve started putting it online here.  Have any questions?  Is there anything you’d like for me to include in the help section?  Send them in to me at eat AT hngry DOT com or message me on AIM at xilef2121 or xilef2121away.

Thanks!

Recently, I’ve been busy getting the first batch of menus (I got several hundred into the system a couple of days ago) into Hngry for you guys. If you’ve requested a menu, it’s coming! If a restaurant has a menu available, instead of the link to suggest a menu on its page, now you’ll get a link to the actual menu. An example of this would be Izzo’s.
Also, I’ve been bringing online ordering online as well. Now, if you are at a restaurant that is enabled for online ordering, you can order food from within Hngry via one of our partners and get your food delivered right to your door, or have it ready to pick up when you get there. This is a first for Hngry. I haven’t seen any other site similar to Hngry that can go with you all the way from helping you decide where to eat to actually enabling you to order/have the food arrive at your door. An example of a restaurant with online menu ordering enabled would be Aneka Rasa.

Thanks for being a Hngry user. I appreciate it so much!

Just soft-launched a mini-companion to Hngry, “What’s your lunch?”

The premise is simple:  take a picture of your lunch, dinner, breakfast, snacks. any meal you’d like, really.  Upload it to the site and include as much or as little information as you want (short of your name and a picture title), including such things as an address for a restaurant, if it was purchased from one, or even a recipe for it that you’d like to share with others.

Ladies and gentlemen, start your cameraphones!  The pancakes are lonely.

For a little while now, you’ve been able to mark restaurants as favorites by clicking on “Add to favorites” on any restaurant page while you’re logged in.  Now, your list of favorites will appear in your profile.
I’ve also changed the design for the profile pages up a little bit.  That’s about all for now.

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