Mealmatch

mealmatch.com, Australia’s most comprehensive restaurant portal site uses DataOn’s Content Management System, SunFish CM, to provide visitors with the best restaurant and dining information on the Internet.

Presenting all aspects of dining at restaurants in Australia, the sites extensive search function, customer reviews, menu display, and other functions allow customer not only to make more informed decisions for their dining experience but also to make real-time Online table bookings or order food Online for delivery.

The central highlight of the website is the restaurant section WHERE visitors receive all possible information about restaurants and cuisines in their area. Each restaurant is described in detail, including menus, drink/wine lists, prices, special events or entertainment, professional reviews as well as guest comments and ratings, so that visitor already know what to expect before the actual visit. Once the user makes a decision for a restaurant, the user has the option to order food or book a table with just with a mouse click.

Having a continuously growing number of restaurant listings in mind mealmatch.com planned from the very beginning that each restaurant would have to represent and maintain all related information through its own staff whereas mealmatch administrators would still hold an oversight function. Knowing that a CMS fulfills these requirements best, mealmatch started an extensive vendor selection process.

After a comprehensive evaluation among popular CMS providers mealmatch.com decided in April 2004 for SunFish CM as the platform for its restaurant portal.

Of crucial importance was besides usability for both restaurant owners and mealmatch administrators as well as a rapid implementation period.  Also smooth extensibility of future requirements by mealmatch administrators needed to be insured in order to support the constant addition of features required during long-term growth. In addition to the CMS advantages mealmatch chose DataOn because of its cost efficient ongoing, accompanying development services, which the company needed for the custom specific programming of its reservation and ordering functions.  The deployment of SunFish CM now enables restaurants and mealmatch staff to create, publish and maintain specific content independently and without any programming knowledge.  The access to the information editing is different for both types of users and is regulated via a strict privilege/security management system. Nonetheless, for both mealmatch users as well as restaurant staff each information section is clearly structured and the needed data input is intuitively laid out so that each user can easily handle the publication within an hour.

With the new SunFish CM solution there will be no limits to the future growth of the restaurant portal size and functions.