Posted by Foobooz on March 27th, 2013
Several staff members have forwarded the story of an LA Restaurant that turned to Twitter to out tables that no-showed for reservations to us today. To us, it’s kind of been one of those, “bet that felt good, but what did it accomplish?” stories.
We encourage the more grown up response we’ve seen from restaurants around Philadelphia. If diners are looking at Twitter at the right moment, they might get the chance to eat at a normally packed restaurant and be welcomed by grateful restaurateurs who won’t have seats going empty. Although this doesn’t solve every no-show and won’t prevent the no-showers from going to a very special place in Hell, we have seen it work out for diner and restaurant alike. And we’d like to help unite restaurants with last-minute cancellations out.
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WillBYOB
8:45 table for 4 just opened up. call the restaurant 215.271.7683 and its yours
3/23/13 7:42 PM |
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biboubyob
Table for 4 guests just cancelled for … 8pm!!! Hurry up! online only at http://t.co/Fv3JMI0l7K
3/23/13 1:36 PM |
We’ll Tweet Your Last Second Cancellations
Tweet out the time and number of seats that have opened up, include @Foobooz at the end of your tweet and we’ll be happy to retweet the availability to our 14,000+ Twitter followers. We know the window of opportunity is small here, but we’d like to get the word out to as many people as we can.
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Posted by Foobooz on October 29th, 2012
We’re still tracking tweets of bars and restaurants that are indeed #OpeninPHL but as conditions deteriorate this evening and discretion becomes the better part of valor, we encourage restaurants and bars to use the #ClosedInPHL hashtag when they are shutting it down for the night.
[tgw title="Hurricane Sandy" subject="What's open in Philadelphia and what's closing" username="foobooz" search="OpenInPHL OR ClosedInPHL" type="search" list="Twitter List Name" theme="Foobooz"]
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Posted by Aubrey Nagle on August 31st, 2012
On Saturday September 15th from 1 to 5 p.m. Iron Hill North Wales will be holding a “Give 19” event for the release of Iron Hill’s Grand Inquisitor bottled reserve with the Flyers’ Scott Hartnell to benefit his #HartnellDown Foundation. The “Give 19” event is a spin on Iron Hill’s popular “Give 20” fundraisers where 20% of proceeds from participating food sales go toward a non-profit or charity. The event is instead “Give 19” in honor of Scott Hartnell’s jersey number, and 19% of proceeds will be donated. Read the rest of this entry »
Related: Drink, Events, Charity, Flyers, Iron Hill, Iron Hill North Wales, Philadelphia Charity Events, Twitter
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Posted by Foobooz on July 20th, 2012
Make sure you are following us on Twitter (@foobooz) because next week we’ll be announcing Best of Philly winners for food and drink.
Follow these other Philadelphia magazine Twitter accounts for more #BestofPhilly announcements.
Related: News, Announcements, Best of Philly, Twitter
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Posted by Foobooz on December 29th, 2011
It’s the end of the year and we’re trying to get our numbers up. Like us on Facebook where we post the highlights of the day. And don’t forget Twitter where we post all our stories as well as retweet the best of Twitter.
While we’re being social, follow Foobooz on foursquare where we offer fun lists to follow like Best 20 Drinks in Philadelphia and our Best Bars of 2011.
And finally, join our Flickr group and have your photos displayed on Foobooz.
Related: Food Nerd News, Announcements, Facebook, Flickr, Foursquare, Twitter
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Posted by Foobooz on September 12th, 2011
Whether you’re excited for the biannual prix fixe extravaganza or too cool for school, we’ll have you covered over the next fortnight with our Restaurant Week Guide as well as some counter-programming.
Follow along with all the Restaurant talk with the Center City District’s @PhilaRestWeek and our hashtag, #phlRW. Include #phlRW in your tweets and it will show up in our Twitter feed below. We’ll be posting the feed every evening at the top of the blog.
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Related: Events, News, Announcements, Restaurant-Week, Twitter
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Posted by Foobooz on June 15th, 2011
While Marc Vetri was hosting hundreds at his Great Chefs Event a couple of well known food writers were sitting down to dinner at Vetri.
Former New York Times critic Frank Bruni and New York Magazine’s Adam Platt dined independently of one another at Vetri’s eponymous flagship restaurant.
It didn’t matter that Vetri wasn’t in the restaurant as both tweeted their raves:
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Related: Food Nerd News, Great Chefs Event, Marc Vetri, Twitter, Vetri
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Posted by Foobooz on April 7th, 2011
Meal Ticket gets the tip that a Thai restaurant is taking the place of the former Pico de Gallo at 15th and South. [Meal Ticket]
SweetBox has taken up position in front of the Monell Chemical Senses Center at 35th and Market. The cupcake truck serves your traditional styles as well as one with a cookie dough center. [Meal Ticket]
Sweets by Samantha is also now rolling around town. This week her truck has been spotted on North and South Broad and today the truck is on Temple’s campus between 12th and 13th on Montgomery.
Don’t forget, for all your twittering truck needs, we’ve got Philadelphia’s Twittering Food Trucks List for you.
Related: Opening Soon, Cupcakes, Food Trucks, Graduate Hospital, Sweet Box, Sweets by Samantha, Thai, Twitter
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