(Feb. 25, 2008) Borrowing a page from the playbooks of such popular dot-coms as My Space and Facebook, vertically oriented online social networks have come to the restaurant and foodservice industry.
At least two Internet sites that have been launched lately seek to connect cooks, servers, managers, owners, vendors and curious foodies in virtual communities.
Similar to broad-based social networks, the new foodservice portals, Bite-Club.com and FohBoh.com, are all about the industry, for the industry and created by industry people.
“We felt there was a place or a niche for a social network specifically for the restaurant business,” said Randy Paragary, founder of the 12-unit, upscale-casual Paragary Restaurant Group in Sacramento, Calif., and chief operating officer of BiteClub.com.
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