DoYouTaDa.com – A New Site for Finding Independent Restaurants

March 12, 2009 - PRLog -- DoYouTaDa.com, a new site from the Travel and Dining Association (TaDa), promotes our country’s amazing independents restaurants.  People can use the website to locate an independent restaurant in their own backyard.  At the same time, business and pleasure travelers can use the site to find great new culinary experiences. Visitors to DoYouTada.com are able to not only read reviews of the restaurants listed on the site but also post one of their own.  In the future, people will also be able to use the site to enter TaDa’s Travel Thru Dining Sweepstakes.  

Yellowpages.com and Citysearch.com, two of the major sites that people use to find  restaurants make no distinction between chain and franchise restaurants and independent ones.  Unless, you’re lucky enough to live in one of the few cities that has a local restaurant association such as Asheville, North Carolina or Madison, Wisconsin then there’s no easy way to find independent restaurants in your area.  DoYouTaDa.com finally changes that and makes it easy for everyone, no matter where they live, to find local independent restaurants.  Eventually, people will be able to search for independent restaurants based on cuisine type and zip code.

DoYouTaDa.com is also a great resource for “foodies.”  The reviews and comments section of the website allows food enthusiasts to find out what other diners have to say  about everything from the restaurant’s décor, to the food, to the attitude of the waitresses.   And as numerous studies have shown, people are far more likely to rely on what other consumers have to say about a product or service then to make a decision based on the word of an establishment’s owner or an industry critic.

Unlike with a chain or franchise establishment, consumers often don’t know what to expect before they walk thru the door of an independent restaurant.  The reviews and comments section on each restaurant’s webpage changes that by enabling potential customers to make an educated decision about whether it’s what they’re looking for or not.

With our country on the verge of a recession, one of the simplest ways of boosting our local economies and creating jobs is to shop at local businesses.  When you shop at local businesses, rather than at chain stores or online, it benefits local economies because those firms are more likely to buy from local suppliers and hire local service providers for needs such as accounting.  The jobs that those dollars support stay in the community, rather than going to chains that consolidate their suppliers and back-office functions elsewhere. The profits, too, stay with local owners who spend in the community, rather than going to out-of-state owners or shareholders.

An analysis done last year by Dan Houston, an Austin, Texas based economic development consultant, found that a 10% shift in spending to local businesses in Grand Rapids, Mich., could create 1,600 jobs with a payroll of $53 million.  Now, what type of impact could be made on the national economy if in every city across America people shifted 10% of their spending to local businesses.  We all eat out, so why not use DoYouTada.com to find a local independent restaurant to eat at and boost the local economy at the same time.  

The Travel and Dining Association (TaDa), is proud to announce the launch of this new website and hopes that as people become more aware of the Buy Local movement that they’ll visit DoYouTada.com to do their part.  TaDa hopes that the site will become a social community where foodies, restaurant owners, and diners can interact.

For more information, please visit www.DoYouTaDa.com and www.MyTaDa.biz or call us toll-free at 888-764-TADA (8232).

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The Travel and Dining Association is a national association comprised enitrely of independant restaurants and dedicated to providing them with the tools they need to be able to compete.