Consumer – Marketing
Letsgofordinner have agreed to sponsor the Vancouver Brunch Meet Up Group and a Coffee Meetup- thanks Lee for all your help

We are talking to some of the leading Vancouver food reviews site and bloggers to get the message out.

BNI team - Richmond and Downtown Vancover – great to meet you all and hope to do some business together.  Thanks for the restaurant leads and enjoy the meals.

Thanks Stephanie, James and Alvin student interns from UBC and SFU for the help with raising the profile on campus

Consumer – Website
About to start a revamp of the website, improve the tracking and messages.
We have just begun offering the ability to buy our certificates and memberships as gifts.

Easier way to use card in restaurants. We just started promoting our preload capability to our 4000 members.  You can now reload your card with money and then go to any of our restaurants and prsnet your acrd, the card will then be swiped and automatically a certificate will be purchased and redeemed

It has been one of the fastest periods for sign ups with over a 100 sign ups in less than 2 weeks

Like to thank Cec  for printing posters for the different Charity events we are involved in

Consumer – Charity
We just donated two full menberships and certificates to the Rocket Builders Charity event for November 26th event. It was a very good fund raising event. I had a great time talking to everyone there.

We are in a dialogue with Givernation and it would be great to work with them – great team and novel concept.

Restaurants
Wanted to thank Zach for joining us on restaurant sales.  Zach has joined us from a restaurant supply that works with 140 of Vancouver’s best restaurants.  Zach is lining up some delicious and new restaurants check out www.letsgofordinner.com in the next 10 days for new restaurants.

Society, Sabatinos just went live and DB Moderne should be going Live in the next few days .. fingers crossed

Bistro Pastis – already live this month

That’s it for a delicious month.  Watch the tweets at FrancisSteiner

Just read a very interesting book review in the economist – which discusses using capitalistic methods to generate more revenue for charities.  The heart of the matter is paying people who do great fund raising  very well.  The specific example is Avon Breast Cancer Walk.  Avon started its own walks and generated $22.7 million.  They started the walks after leaving a firm that generated $70.9 million annually for the same walks. They left because the CEO  and founder was paid above the average.

Jealousy and charities should not mix and this is a great case.  Further, you get what you pay for.

Think big and you will be big.

We’re working on some great things at LG4D!

Our initial concept tests with eight restaurants and a website prototype were a great success.

We’ve signed up six more restaurants, and have many more in the pipeline.  Our current restaurant partners know that the service is a cost-effective way to win customers, and are almost always interested when Craig speaks with them.  If you’re a restaurant owner or manager and are interested in learning more about the LetsGoForDinner solution, contact Craig!

This success helped us to win additional financing, and we are investing it in a new site with more features which will be online in the next few weeks.  Here’s some initial screenshots of what we are working on:

With the new site, members will be able to more easily learn about which restaurants match their preferences and will be able to buy certificates more easily.  We have lots of additional cool features planned which will be arriving in the coming weeks and months. We need your feedback though — if you have any ideas or comments about what you would like to do when using our website, please let us know.

In the meantime, however, don’t forget our current site is still working hard, ready to serve you, 24 hours a day.  You can buy certificates to any of our award-winning restaurants any time. If you haven’t tried it yet, check it out!  Be sure to send any comments you have to feedback@letsgofordinner.com so we can learn what’s working or not working for you.

Congratulations to all the other winners Maurya and Don Francesco
All the winners are listed below:
Best Appetizer: Maurya Indian Cuisine
Best Entrée: Goldfish Pacific Kitchen
Best Dessert: Don Francesco Ristorante
Best BC Wine Pairing – Sponsored by the BC Wine Institute: Don Francesco Ristorante
Best Overall Dine Out Vancouver Menu: Maurya Indian Cuisine
Best Service – Sponsored by Visa: Goldfish Pacific Kitchen

Spoke to two online food bloggers and they are keen to meet up .. could be some potential here.

Saw an interesting product that would allows people to round up bills and the round up would be given to a charity.. nice idea.. hard to work in practice given who they are targeting.. large corporations. Noticed that Safeway is asking for donations and overlaps on this space.

A tech blog wants to write us up in a few weeks.

Need to work on our next stage of marketing and signing restaurants.