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USRG Navigation & Audience
June 4, 2000

The USRG guide has been designed for optimal web navigation for the restaurants and recipes in the United States. Organizing information, ratings, reviews, recipes and mapping information on every restaurant in the USA requires an intelligent interface especially when you have over 500,000 of them.

Each city lists restaurants by Best, Cuisine, Restaurants A-Z, Map and Area Cities. Recipes and Menus are sometimes available. First time diners often start with the Best restaurants in a city.

Geographic Organization

A simple geographical organization is used that locates restaurants in their city and state. Another grouping of dining regions and their states is helpful. You can navigate to the site www.usrg.com or you can use the keyboard command interface and type in the URL to get to an area if you know the state and city. (The USRG is geocoded, meaning that it can be accessible through handheld offline and wireless devices. Contact markbeau@san.rr.com for details.)

Command Interface

While web browsing and mouse clicking is easy to begin with, once you understand where you want to go, you want to bypass dialogs and screens. You can add extra terms to the URL line to narrow down your interest in the USRG.

 USRG Direct Notation
You can go directly to an area on the USRG web site by entering the following terms after the server address, www.usrg.com

/State
/State/City/
/State/City/Restaurant

Example:
www.usrg.com/CA brings up the state guide
www.usrg.com/CA/San_Francisco/ brings up the city guide
www.usrg.com/CA/San_Francisco/Zuni/ brings up the restaurant

Note: If your browser will not let you enter a word space, use the _ character as a replacement.

Restaurants 5 Services

USRG - the Culinary Source Guide to the Restaurants of the United States.

This guide provides dining and culinary information about restaurants. Many of the USRG diners like to cook. Since your Internet device may be on the road or near your kitchen, you can use the guide to visit a restaurant or using the recipes - bring that cooking information home with you to make your own meal. Therefore each restaurant is organized to provide its full range of Internet services from dining accommodations to recipes and directions for cooking.

In addition to the general information, this guide uses the Internet to organize restaurant services into five basic operations that diners may care about.

What do you feel like ?

The USRG is designed for the diner to find out about and share experiences on restaurants in the US. This guide is also for the cook who want to access recipes. It is also for restaurant owners who wish to develop their restaurant's culinary identity. We try to build this site and  content to primarily match a diner's goals. The best statement of  goals is in their own words:

• I want to see every restaurant in my area.
• I want an honest comparison of their qualities.
• I need to make restaurant recommendations in my area sometimes by price, by cusine, or just the best.
• I want to explore restaurants in my area for dining out plans, around the country for trips I am planning, in the style of countries overseas to make exotic dishes at home.
• I want to use recipes from special restaurant that I like, so I may cook a meal for my family and friends
• I want to have my own rating and review of restaurants.
• I want to share my restaurant tip sheet.

To express your goals, please contact jbeaulieu@usrg.com

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