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SAN JOSE, Calif., July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Bay Area residents seeking the latest in entertainment news online will soon be able to order up a bagel and coffee, all without taking their eyes off the screen or picking up the phone. JustGo.com(TM), the online entertainment guide of the Mercury News and Contra Costa Newspapers, and Waiter.Com have announced the creation of a new co-branded web site ( waiter.com/mercury.html ), to go live on August 3, 1998, which will feature over 400 Bay Area restaurants available for real time online ordering.
By partnering with Waiter.Com, the nation's premier online restaurant ordering service, the newspapers are providing their technology-savvy readership with the convenience of online food ordering, a natural among the services the sites currently offer.
``As you'd expect from a Silicon Valley audience, our readers have fast-paced lives and spend much of it online,'' said Doug Edwards, Mercury News Online Brand Group Manager. ``Partnering with the leading online food ordering service lets JustGo.com readers in the Bay Area feed their bodies, as well as their minds with the ease and speed they've come to expect from our online services.''
According to Waiter.Com president and CEO Craig Cohen, ``The partnership allows us to share our online ordering application with thousands of readers, while at the same time driving repeat traffic back to the content-rich JustGo.com and newspaper web properties. Also, because it is a true partnership including revenue sharing, both companies will benefit from the increased web traffic and ordering related revenue.''
Adding Waiter.Com to JustGo.com gives Waiter.Com extra power to serve those living in the Bay Area. Readers of the newspapers and their web properties live and work in areas heavily serviced by restaurants offering their food for take-out, delivery and dine-in ordering via Waiter.Com.
For those who spend much of their day in front of a computer, ordering via Waiter.Com is a welcome alternative to standing in long restaurant lines or calling in complicated orders by phone. Online menus, restaurant hours and maps offer added convenience, while the MyWaiter(TM) personalized home page allows orderers to customize a favorite restaurant list and save past orders for instant replay.
Waiter.Com will continue to offer its online ordering service completely free to users, who are also eligible for the WaiterPoints(TM) program, which rewards frequent orderers with free food certificates.
Links to the new site will be featured on Waiter.Com, at waiter.com, as well as at JustGo.com ( http://www.justgo.com/bayarea ), Mercury Center, the online edition of the San Jose Mercury News, ( http://www.mercurycenter.com ), Hot Coco, the online site of the Contra Costa Times, ( http://www.hotcoco.com ) and the Bay Area Yellow Pages ( http://www.bayareayellowpages.com ).
Mercury Center ( http://www.mercurycenter.com ), the pioneering online edition of the San Jose Mercury News, combines superior journalism and cutting-edge technology to produce quality, in-depth news coverage and analysis of Silicon Valley business, technology, and culture. The nation's first daily newspaper to make its entire contents available on a national online service, Mercury Center was launched in 1993 on America Online and expanded to a complete World Wide Web site in 1994. Drawing on its Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper heritage, and the largest newsroom in Silicon Valley (which has been covering the region since 1851), the site has a history of breaking tech stories on the Web. Mercury Center is part of Knight Ridder Real Cities(TM), a national network of Internet sites serving communities across the United States. JustGo.com(R) is a trademark of Knight Ridder New Media.
Hot CoCo ( http://www.hotcoco.com ) is the award-winning Web site of Walnut Creek-based Contra Costa Newspapers. Launched in 1996, Hot CoCo has gained national attention and honors for its unique retro-diner look, ease of use and interactive features.
Hot CoCo offers the complete text of all five dailies in Contra Costa Newspapers' San Francisco East Bay market, along with many online-only features, such as real-time traffic reports, discussion forums, interactive games and personalized news pages.
Contra Costa Newspapers includes the flagship Contra Costa Times in Walnut Creek, the Valley Times in Pleasanton, the San Ramon Valley Times in Danville, the West County Times in Richmond and the Ledger-Dispatch in Antioch.
Waiter.Com pioneered the concept of online restaurant ordering in 1995 when it offered 60 Silicon Valley restaurants for delivery or takeout ordering via the World Wide Web. Today, with over 1300 restaurants under contract nationwide, Waiter.Com is the premier on-line ordering service for the hungry web surfer.
Waiter.Com features popular restaurant concepts including Chili's Grill & Bar, Boston Market, Round Table Pizza, World Wrapps, TOGO'S Eatery, Domino's Pizza, The Olive Garden and California Pizza Kitchen, in addition to local favorites offering varied cuisines such as Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Mexican and Indian.
Access Waiter.Com on the Internet at waiter.com or by phone at 800-WAITER-9.
SOURCE: Waiter.Com
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