ELV was expecting a couple of burly old guys with pocket protectors. Instead, a couple of babes* showed up when we asked the Southern Nevada Health District if we could interview a restaurant inspector. Who knew? So we had a sit-down with them and threw out some questions we thought the public might want to know.
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According to people who know these things, i.e. The Kelsey Group, 54% of people have replaced the Yellow Pages with the Internet.
According to Digitrends, “52.7% of the online business directory users visit a merchant because of what they saw online, and 87% of the online users depend on the Internet to access local information.”
Even the U.S. Department of Commerce has stated: “Those businesses that use the Internet grew 46% faster than those that didn’t.”
Numbers (and statistics like that) only frighten and confuse ELV. But it doesn’t take an idiot to recognize that the world of eating out and the Internet have become inextricably intertwined. For this reason we sat down with Erik Foubert, a Vegas dude with a great website- www.MenuSearch.Net – that’s ideal for finding what’s on a restaurant’s menu before you show up.
Now I know how DeNiro feels. Or Barack. Or these ten folks (pay particular attention to 80’s screen idol(?) Corey Haim’s defining moment). Yes, it’s fun and oh-so-self-indulgent to wax narcissistically about one’s past, present and future. But Vegas Wineaux’s Irene King (one of our newest and fun-est Friends In Food) asked, so The Food Gal and I met her for an hour of chit chat and friendly interrogation.