Browse restaurants around you that are open for pickup/delivery or support by purchasing a gift card or sending a donation. Your support can make or break a restaurant right now.
Hunters! Thank you for your support <3
Your local restaurants are dying. While we comfortably wfh, the service industry has been under great duress. The restaurants that survive are struggling to contact their patrons.
We built a map where you can browse what’s open around you for pickup and delivery, buy gift cards, or donate to your favorite local spots. Working directly w restaurant owners to provide accurate and updated info!
Every order and gift card matters at a time when restaurants are struggling to weather the lockdown. Sustaining them through these next few weeks can make or break the neighborhood business you’ve grown with. Many close friends shuttered their restaurants or lost their jobs because of the crisis…
You are the lifeline — decide what survives by supporting those you love.
This crisis has shown that we are not a transactional community. We care about those who make our communities vibrant. Don’t wait until the quarantine is over to find out your local neighborhood has vanished.
Can and I started building this a week ago and it’s been incredible watching the outpour of feedback from restaurants and friends and evolve this product on an hourly basis. We will continue to change as needed by our community. On behalf of local restaurants, thank you for your support.
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Super useful! I literally was googling around today trying to figure out which food places near me were open. Awesome idea!!
@justin_connell Thanks Justin! It's been difficult to find accurate information online as to whether a restaurant is open or closed... but many are open! They're not great at online marketing, so we've built a platform to allow them to virtually put up that "OPEN" or "CLOSED" sign :)
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I love this idea! We love it so much that we had a similar idea for our home city, London, a few days too. Please take a look — https://neighbourgoods.london/ — all feedback (and shares) welcome! 😄
@alexjthurman We've seen spreadsheets maintained locally crop up as the crisis unfolds. It makes a huge difference for small businesses. Alex, thank you for being a part of the movement <3
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Thanks so much for this!! I've been wanting a map version of the below websites:
https://sf.eater.com/2020/3/17/2...https://saveourfaves.org/
I also use Door Dash which has a category for 'local restaurants,' but unfortunately not all available restaurants are on Door Dash--some might be on Caviar, for example--and the map view is only for restaurants that do pick-up. Meanwhile, I want my food delivered to me, but have a preference to support restaurants closer to where I live so that after shelter-in-place is over, they'll still be around for my local enjoyment---and Door Dash doesn't have map view for restaurants that do delivery. While I can assume all restaurants that do delivery also do pick-up, I can't assume the reverse.
@patricia_pan Completely agree, and things are constantly changing. We really hope our approach will bring all this information together, and make it more accessible. We've also built business tools for owners/managers so they keep their information up to date.
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Love this map! It's so handy as we've been searching for restaurants to get takeouts. I'll definitely use it to support more restaurants. <3 keep up the good work.
@sara_lin Thank you very much Sara! Also not all places are able to afford offering takeouts, and some of those restaurants are the ones that need our help the most now! On our map you'll also find links to gift card purchase and donation links, where you can pay it forward and support your favorites.
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Wow this is so cool! I was literally asking myself the exact question this product answers last night when I was wondering which of my fave spots were actually still open for takeout. I’ve noticed Yelp doesn’t really do a good job of keeping the info updated, so I’ve been calling each restaurant one by one and scribbling their status down on my sticky notes. This is PERFECT because no longer need to do that. Going to be sharing this with friends so we can support local businesses! Thanks for whipping this up!!
@vivian_wang22 Thank you! We try to keep our data up to date in multiple ways - we rely on our community and crowdsource data, as well as give business owners access to their own admin pages to modify their info as they please. You can also help your favorite restaurants by voting them as open/closed if we currently don't know!
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I’m trying to be disciplined about my spending on restaurants - so this is perfect for shopping gift cards to budget it ahead of time. And giving my fav restaurants some cash flow in troubling times win-win! ☺️❤️
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