iEat

What is the iEat application?

It appears that the “i” phenomenon is still going strong, with the lower case vowel being attached to anything that involves electronics and has a chance to be trendy. While I’m in the opinion that it is completely overused, it does have its successes like the iPhone or the iEat facebook application.

iEat provides a simple solution to searching for restaurants in various areas and lets you share your feelings, by reviewing them, with your friends. Searching for restaurants is easy. Type in the name or put in a city/state to see what’s in your area. Another option is selecting the WTLE 100 for your city, which brings a pop up window to browse the top 100 rated restaurants (according to the WTLE select) for that area.

Rating restaurants is simplified where you can give it your opinion by granting the place 1 to 5 forks. Reviews are done separately and show up in your profile, where you can display your favorites, your top 5 restaurants, your intended dining plans, places you want to try, your friends on iEat, and your food profile-a way to demonstrate your eating habits.

The restaurants that are listed each have their own sort of profile that provides the address and phone number, the places website, various other information (does it have patio seating, price range, etc.) and shows the most recent ratings and reviews for the establishment. Each restaurant has it’s own wall, where comments can be posted.

Pros

• Easy way to browse restaurants in your area and see what people think of them
• Can send invitations to your friends so everyone can meet up for a meal
• Grubn’ section let’s you post pictures of yourself eating that other iEat users can view
• Highly detailed restaurant profiles

Cons

• The cities that are covered are limited
• You can add new restaurants to the list (iEat provides a way to search the internet), but this too is limited in what can be selected and it’s hard to narrow down the search.