April 2012
1 post
Menu and Hours Homescreen Icon
Oh hey. What is this? Why it’s the Menu and Hours homescreen icon on an iPhone.
Once again I couldn’t be more pleased to have David Yeiser’s design talent for this project.
And in case you wonder why we didn’t just go with the awesome logo that Matt Dobson created for the t-shirt it just didn’t work well sized down to fit into the homescreen icon constraints. We...
March 2012
2 posts
Who Is Already In Menu and Hours?
Folks have asked me for a list of the restaurants that have already agreed to be included in Menu and Hours. They’ve asked because they want to know who to thank for being included and on the flipside which of their favorite restaurants to encourage to be included in the app.
Before I share the list I should note that I have asked many, many restaurants to be included in the app. Only two...
So Fresh and So Clean
Our designer David Yeiser is straight up knocking it out of the park. Check out the Mayan Cafe’s listing:
That, in my humble opinion, is a fresh, clean, easy to read, gorgeous look. Things are getting exciting!
February 2012
3 posts
Menu and Hours T-Shirts For Sale (aka inching...
Much like the school band selling fruit to help finance new uniforms I’m selling t-shirts to help fund development of the Android version of Menu and Hours. Of course the Menu and Hours shirts are way, way cooler than a crate of grapefruit.
Every shirt sold gets us a little bit closer to having Menu and Hours for both iPhone and Android platforms.
The shirts are being printed locally in...
A Brief Progress Report
Things are progressing really, really nicely. Even so, there have been a couple bumps along the way that I want to share with you.
After a few uncomfortable meetings with some restaurant owners who didn’t quite get what Menu and Hours is all about I adapted my “pitch” to them. I put together an information sheet, gave them a list of other participating restaurants and even...
January 2012
2 posts
On Chains
Someone recently mentioned that she hopes a restaurant called Chuy’s will be included in Menu and Hours and she was a little unhappy when I said it won’t be because it’s a chain. There is only one Chuy’s in Louisville so perhaps it doesn’t seem like a chain to some folks but in my mind it is because it has locations in several states and many locations in Texas. The...
A Few Post Kickstarter Developments
Since the Kickstarter project ended successfully a week and a half ago I have finalized arrangements with the designer David Yeiser and the developer Jeff Jackson. I’ve also drafted brilliant local artist Matt Dobson to design the Menu and Hours t-shirts for Kickstarter backers who chose that reward (and we might sell a few shirts down the road) and I’ve gotten several other...