SevenLunches is proud to announce a promotional partnership with restaurant social network tastecasting.com. TasteCasting uses volunteer teams of social media savvy food lovers which restaurants invite to their establishment for promotional tastings to promote their restaurant, a grand opening, new menu items, etc. The TasteCasting teams taste, take photos, videos, and then tweet, blog, vlog, and essentially “tastecast” about their experience using all available social media tools (more details below). Through this partnership, TasteCasters will promote the SevenLunches service to the restaurants they do tastings with, and SevenLunches will promote these TasteCasting social media tastings to the restaurants using SevenLunches, as well as aid in recruiting new TasteCasting team members. At last count TasteCasting has teams  servicing 17 major US cities.

SevenLunches VP of Marketing and Social Media Jeff Lee says: “We love how TasteCasting is using all volunteer teams of social media savvy food lovers to help local restaurants promote themselves in their local communities through any and all social media tools. We feel that what we are doing at  SevenLunches with our E-mail/SMS daily specials service and the social media integration we are building into our system can add value to the restaurants that TasteCasters serve. We in turn want to help grow the TasteCasting network by recruiting new restaurants and TasteCasting team members. It truly is a natural fit for both TasteCasting and SevenLunches. Both myself and TasteCasting founder Dan Harris are very excited about the possibilities of how we can both grow our services.”

What is TasteCasting?

TasteCasting is an all volunteer social network made up of people around the country who enjoy food and helping local and regional food and beverage establishments. An organizer, assembles a team of tasters and contacts establishments with an offer to help. The help is in the form of a blog post on TasteCasting.com, the bloggers own blogs, Yelp reviews, Urbanspoon ratings, tweets, Linkedin profile or Facebook updates.  The establishment can share a new menu item, a new recipe, specials, offers, events with the team and the team will send that message out to their network of followers, fans, friends, and links. This is a promotional effort and not a critical review. The organizer and team of tasters express their own opinion of the establishment, and experience. Establishments can post ads on TasteCasting.com as a way to support our efforts.

What is SevenLunches?

Much like Twitter asks the question: What’s happening? SevenLunches attempts to answer the daily question: What’s for lunch?
SevenLunches.com is a simple service that allows restaurants to post a single twitter like 140 character daily special. We then aggregate and deliver specials based on location via E-mail or SMS to local diners. Below is a brief rundown of how our service works:

How does SevenLunches work for restaurants?

A restaurant manager (or marketing person) creates an account with their E-mail address and enters location and other information about their restaurant to create a profile. The restaurant can then start posting daily 140 character specials right away. The restaurant can login every day to post a single special or post as many specials as they want to in advance. Restaurants can also link their twitter account to SevenLunches so when they post a daily special in our system, it automagically tweets it to their followers as well, making social media marketing a much easier proposition since you can import twitter updates into just about any other social network service.

Restaurants can signup at: http://sevenlunches.com/restaurant/signup

How does SevenLunches work for diners?

A diner signs up for sevenlunches using their E-mail address and zip code. The diner then will automatically receive one daily E-mail at 11:30 AM with all the daily specials from all the restaurants (that use SevenLunches) within the default distance of 5 miles from their home zip code.

Optionally, diners can change the time of day they receive their daily E-mail, and the distance of the restaurants from their home zip code (between 5-50 miles). Diners can also enter their cell phone number and receive specials via SMS text message.

Diners can signup at SevenLunches http://www.sevenlunches.com/signup

Give SevenLunches A Try

We are a beta service and are free for both restaurants and diners to use. Test it out and feel free to send me any E-mails with your thoughts, issues or suggestions about our service. We are continuing to add features to the service as we grow and as we hear about the needs of restaurants and diners in the beta. At this time, we only operate in the United States zip code system and may not currently have restaurants in every zip code.

SevenLunches Contact

Jeff Lee
Partner – VP of Marketing & Social Media
http://www.sevenlunches.com
jeff@sevenlunches.com
twitter: @SevenLunches