![]() Via its apps and webpage, Urbanspoon offered a restaurant search utility, with filtering by price, type of food, neighborhood, nearby businesses (movie theaters, sports venues, etc.), and special features (gluten-free fare, child-friendliness, BYOB-service, etc.). In these and other efforts to develop the product, the results were apps that were aware and competitive with alternative businesses Yelp and Where. In its evolution from an initial and popular iPhone application, UrbanSpoon adapted its appearance and capabilities, including to the Android market. It offered services via its website and standard apps for mobile operating systems. Urbanspoon was a restaurant information and recommendation service that operated in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and in the United Kingdom and Ireland. ( November 2015) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. This section needs additional citations for verification. operations, or that it will retain a couple of sites, including Dallas, the new site of Zomato's U.S. ![]() Business reports as of October 2015 indicate either that Zomato-Urbanspoon has ceased all U.S. Zomato (previously Urbanspoon) offices were closed, including the former corporate headquarters in Seattle. Zomato had previously ceased Urbanspoon app development, leading to departure of all Seattle engineers by August 2015. However, Zomato discontinued the Urbanspoon website on June 1, 2015, redirecting Urbanspoon traffic to Zomato servers at the same time, Urbanspoon's logo was incorporated into a new Zomato logo. The Urbanspoon website and Seattle business operation initially evolved with addition of content team workers for door-to-door data collection of restaurant information, an operational design that had served Zomato well in India. In January 2015, Zomato, an India-based restaurant search and discovery service, acquired Urbanspoon. The couple is also working on different food concepts which they plan to unveil in the next few years, she said.Urbanspoon was a restaurant information and recommendation service founded in 2006 by former Jobster employees that offered its services in North America and parts of English-speaking Australasia and Europe. “It will be all about the history of corn.” “It’s going to be small, but mighty, just like we’ve always wanted to do it,” she said. The couple plan to open a 10-seat restaurant at Yoli’s Westside location in the next 2-3 months. What started for Gencarelli as a hobby to help her relieve the stress from her job in the technology industry has now become another business. “I think that it really speaks, for me, about the diversity in the United States, about the humble tortilla making it all the way and getting the rightful credit that they should,” she said. Marissa Gencarelli, who is from Sonora, Mexico, said winning the award gives them a platform for their mission - bringing more Mexican diversity to the U.S. Instead we were sequestered in our hotel room.” “We thought, oh we’re just gonna chill the next day, we’re without our kids and we’re gonna have fun. We were obviously not expecting it,” she said. Instead, they spent Wednesday answering phone calls, doing video interviews and talking to a national newspaper from Mexico City. Marissa Gencarelli said the couple didn’t believe they would win, so they were simply enjoying the experience and planning some fun for the next day. ![]() KCURT 89.3 Marissa Gencarelli, co-owner of Yoli Tortilleria with her husband, Mark, told KCUR's Up To Date they plan to expand their James Beard Award-winning business into a restaurant.
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