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About the USRG
You are on a Cultural Mission
June 2 , 2006

Welcome to the millions of Internet viewers who visit the USRG.

The USRG is a dynamic restaurant portal featuring every restaurant in the United States. The USRG provides a framework for diners and their restaurants to share basic information and appreciate the best in food and culture. We are also diners who like to cook, so we feature restaurants who share recipes, and we encourage diners to share their recipe insights in their review..

Any diner may rate or review restaurants. The USRG editorial team contacts diners and restaurants to qualify reviews and judge restaurants by a comprehensive national standard. The infinite depth of the internet lets the USRG provide comprehensive coverage of every restaurant. This is unlike other commercial print or online guides who will let you see only the TOP 10% of a city. The. USRG lets you examine every major and most "out-of-the-way" place. If the restaurant is not in the USRG it is probably no longer in business.

Diners -  When diners use the USRG to examine U.S. restaurants, they find areas to rate, review and remember. If you are on a restaurant page, click on "I have eaten here and want to review it" link and supply a rating and review. Six restaurant services are covered -dining, takeout, delivery, catering, banquet, recipes. Check the box "remember this place", if you have a subscription then the restaurant is stored on your own diner page.

Recipes - Most of our members like to cook as well as eat out. We post recipes who love a restaurant, and unable to dine out (or are cross country), want to bring that dish home and make it for friends. Recipes can be submitted to foodie kitchen - a companion site dedicated to busy people who love good food. For the dish include its title, why people like it, ingredient list and cooking steps. A recipe example, La Boheme Brittany Pork shows how to put together a recipe.

Restaurants use the USRG as an information source to let diners find out about their restaurant, services, and recipes via the Internet. A restaurant can feature restaurant calendars, special events, catering and banquet facilities.


Business

The USRG offers these business services.

Advertising -  The USRG does not advertise or run banner ads. As an information resource, we do work with sponsors with creative Internet presences useful to the dining experience. Contact jbeaulieu@usrg.com for terms of performance and coverage.


About Your City

Although every known restaurant and city in the US exists in the USRG, certain cities appear fully featured online before others due to local participation. Cities appear when dining reviewers or sponsors write about their city. We try to cover every restaurant, but more than a dozen restaurants come and go every day in the USA. Your email comments keep this national guide up to date via email.

Local reviewers - The current staff is purely voluntary. To become a chief city reviewer for your area contact our Editor jbeaulieu@usrg.com. If you write reviews and are fair in comparing restaurants where you live please contact USRG to give us your view of local restaurants and recipes. Readers like the regional flare. If you are new, simply sending in your Top 10 restaurants. Then write a few reviews every season. Your reward besides helping improve standards of dining and cultural interest it you get a special view into the USRG with personal portal services.


History
The United States Restaurant Guide went online in October, 1997. It is owned and operated by Beaulieu Enterprises LLC. In 1992, Mark Beaulieu started Digital Lantern and invented the popular Digital City guides featuring every San Francisco Bay Area restaurant. It was sold through Apple Computer and photofeatured in Wired Magazine as Digital Guide Done Right. The name "Digital Cities" was sold to AOL. In October 1997, the USRG dining guide & culinary site was launched and serves about half a million unique visitors a year. USRG is the most precise national restaurant guide on the Internet.

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