Brief history of foodie.
This website is NOT operational. And is only informational.
Foodie was started 13 years ago in St. Louis. We took 52 local restaurants in a US city and advertised and promoted them. The advertising and promotion service was provided free of charge for these restaurants.
-WHY 52?
Because we advertised and promoted these restaurants in a deck of cards–just like playing cards. Each card contained a detailed description of the restaurant and was also a $10 gift certificate to that restaurant. $10 discount was on a purchase of $25 or more at any partner restaurant. The decks retailed for $20. It could not be used with another discount. And could not be applied toward tax, gratuity or prix fixe menus.
A deck was good for a calendar year. We sold the decks through our website, participating restaurants, stores, shops, daily deals and fundraisers. And we donated a portion of each deck sold to Food Outreach.
When we sold the decks through participating restaurants, stores, shops, daily deals and fundraisers. These entities were given $10 out of $20. Selling price. So in essence. They incurred no cost.
52 restaurants were from various neighborhoods, cuisines and price points.
In a few years FOODIE was in 12 US cities.
The list of the cities were:
1 Saint Louis
2 Kansas city
3 Indianapolis
4 Cincinnati
5 Columbus
6 Nashville
7 Houston
8 Atlanta
9 Washington DC
10 Charlotte
11 Cleveland
12 Portland
Here is a brief video. Of how foodie deck used to look like.