LocalEats has undertaken some considerable developments of late. We've significantly upgraded our  iPhone and  iPad apps, and our recent  partnership with Bitehunter means daily deals at great local restaurants are now available for our users. Perhaps our most exciting new feature is the inclusion of restaurant menus on our website and apps. Users can pull up current menus for over 12,000 restaurants on our site. Here are the complete details. 

NEW YORK CITY - (December 21, 2012) - LocalEats, a top-selling travel app dedicated to helping diners find the best locally owned restaurants in America, and SinglePlatform, a company committed to helping local businesses get discovered online, announced a content partnership today. The partnership places SinglePlatform's menu content into both the LocalEats iPhone and iPad apps, as well as the LocalEats.com website. The new content brings LocalEats users complete access to 12,000+ restaurant menus from LocalEats-selected restaurants, without having to leave the app or the LocalEats website to view them.

Since the LocalEats app launched in 2008, it has consistently added increased in-app functionality for users, such as the ability to call a taxi via Taxi Magic, make a reservation with OpenTable, or even find a restaurant deal, through its recently announced partnership with top dining deal aggregator BiteHunter.

SinglePlatform co-founder Wiley Cerilli said, "LocalEats is unusual in that it's not a user-generated content app, but instead is a highly curated app that doesn't include chains. At SinglePlatform, we want to help the world find exactly these sorts of restaurants -- places that perhaps don't have the resources to plug their menu into the internet across the spectrum, or even have a website -- but which can greatly benefit from having it deployed from a "single platform" like ours."

"We are happy have a menu partner who can provide more than just big-city restaurant menus, and in fact shares our commitment to helping great local restaurants across America be discovered," said Kelsey Weaver of LocalEats. "Because of their direct relationship with restaurants, SinglePlatform has the most up-to-date menus available in markets of every size, from large to small. Users of LocalEats will enjoy the increased convenience of viewing menus in-app. "

The LocalEats app, which also includes international destinations, is available now in the App Store.  

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ABOUT LOCALEATS

LocalEats is dedicated to providing the best hand-curated restaurant guide in America. While the company began as Magellan Press, Inc., an independent book publishing company which created a popular dining guide for travelers called Where The Locals Eat, the guide went completely digital in 2008. LocalEats was the top selling paid dining app in the App Store in 2010, according to iTunes. Today the LocalEats iPhone and iPad apps, as well as its website, are a one-stop resource for finding the best restaurants in America, at the best prices…with menus consumers can see in-app. For more information, visit www.localeats.com

ABOUT SINGLEPLATFORM

SinglePlatform is focused on building tools for local businesses and enhancing digital publishers by bringing local storefronts online. SinglePlatform was founded in 2010 on the premise that local businesses do not have the time and resources to manage the ever-changing digital landscape of online publishers, review sites, city guides, mobile applications and more. Named by Bloomberg BusinessWeek as one of "America's Most Promising Startups of 2011," SinglePlatform's free API allows publishers to integrate more than half a million menus from local businesses. For more information, visit www.singleplatform.com

Great changes are afoot, LocalEaters. LocalEats 2.4 is officially available for your iPhone, and with the new update come exciting, significant improvements to our app. First and foremost, updated restaurant menus are now available (on the app as well as our website) for most of the great locally owned restaurants listed. For further details, we'll defer to the latest review by Philip Michaels of Macworld.

"Exacting foodies use the LocalEats restaurant finder on their iPhone to track down the best places to eat in a particular city. Thanks to the latest update to the app, they'll also have a pretty good idea of what will be on the menu when they get there. Version 2.4 of the mobile restaurant finder, which hit the App Store Wednesday, adds menus to many of the restaurants listed in LocalEats. The developer of LocalEats struck a partnership with SinglePlatform, a company that specializes in promoting local businesses, to add that information to the iPhone app. ... Tap on a restaurant listing and scroll down the page past the summary information about an eatery, and you'll find a See the Menu button wedged between buttons for making a reservation or visiting the restaurant's website."

In addition to the new menu feature, LocalEats 2.4 also displays daily deals at restaurants in your area via Bitehunter. For further information on the daily deals, follow the link.

NEW YORK CITY - (December 6, 2011) - BiteHunter, the first real-time search engine for dining deals, and LocalEats, a top-selling travel app dedicated to helping diners find the best locally owned restaurants in America, announced an official partnership today. The partnership integrates the two mobile apps' content to bring users a curated guide to the top locally owned restaurants with the best dining deals in real-time.

BiteHunter and LocalEats marry up content from each mobile app - dining deal information and curated local restaurant guide - to deliver the best possible prices at the best restaurants in America. Both apps solve problems in the marketplace, whether that be allowing for consumers to find available deals without registering for daily deal emails and newsletters, or allowing business travelers to find the best eats no matter where they are. Featuring more than 15,000 restaurants in more than 50 markets across the US, LocalEats can now pair up carefully chosen restaurants with the best dining deals.

"We've been looking forward to this partnership with LocalEats because we both have a vision of bringing the best of the best to our users," said Gil Harel, CEO & co-founder of BiteHunter. "LocalEats is a top dining and travel app, and each of our content can only benefit our users. This new integration will take each app above and beyond others on the market."

LocalEats app users will see BiteHunter's icon in the restaurant detail page, which reveals available deals at that location. When clicking the deal, they will go directly to the deal source. BiteHunter will provide users LocalEats' restaurant synopsis if a deal is from a LocalEats-selected restaurant, helping them to make better restaurant choices.

"Collaborating with BiteHunter gives LocalEats users an advantage when dining out at LocalEats-selected restaurants," said Shannon Austin, strategic development officer of LocalEats. "Users can check the app at home or on the road and know they're getting the best deal available at that restaurant on that day. BiteHunter is a pioneer in the deal aggregation space, and their intense focus on the dining space mirrors our own. This partnership can only benefit restaurants as more customers discover them and feel confident they're getting a great value for their dining dollar."

For more information, visit http://www.BiteHunter.com or http://www.LocalEats.com. To download each app, visit BiteHunter and LocalEats in the iTunes App Store.

About BiteHunter.com:

Co-founded by Gil Harel and Ido Shillon in 2010, BiteHunter is the first real-time search engine for dining deals. By aggregating deals from thousands of online sources, such as daily deal sites, restaurant web sites, Twitter and Foursquare, BiteHunter provides consumers with a one-stop resource for finding local dining deals. For more information, visit http://www.bitehunter.com.

About LocalEats:

LocalEats is dedicated to providing the best hand-curated restaurant guide in America. While the company began as Magellan Press, Inc., an independent book publishing company  which created a popular dining guide for travelers called Where the Locals Eat, the guide went completely digital in 2008. LocalEats was the top paid dining app in the App Store in 2010, according to iTunes. Today the LocalEats iPhone and iPad apps and website are leading sources for the best regional dining information nationwide. With the inclusion of deal aggregation through its partner BiteHunter, LocalEats is now a one-stop resource for finding the best restaurants in America...at the best possible prices. For more information, visit .