Welcome to the New Midtown Lunch
I can’t believe it has been almost 3 years since the first post went up on Midtown Lunch. The first lunch I wrote about was on June 7th, 2006, and Hing Won was the place. I’d like to say I started the site to help my fellow office workers find good lunch in this food wasteland we call Midtown… but truth be told, I only started Midtown Lunch because I wanted to have an excuse to eat gross, fattening food for lunch (and take pictures of that food.) Now, three years later, what started as a fat man’s idea of the perfect hobby has grown into an amazing community of New York City office workers, sharing in the common misery we call lunchtime.
Without your tips, emails, suggestions, and comments the site would not be what it is today. So, with that in mind, I’m pretty excited to announce the launch of the Midtown Lunch Forums. Ideally this will be a place to make communicating with your fellow lunchers easier; an open place for you guys to ask questions and share recommendations, not just about eating lunch in Midtown, but also lunching outside of Midtown. There’s also a section for connections (if you want to find people to have lunch with) and a miscellaneous area for anything else you guys may want to talk about. The only downside of the forums is that you will now have to register to comment. It only takes 15 seconds, and all we need is your email address (which won’t be used for anything other than to verify that a real person is signing up for the account.) This measure is being done for two simple reasons: To ensure that the forum is kept spam free, and to guard against people posting under other people’s names.
You’ll also notice that the site has a completely new design. Part of that new design is a brand new map, which is not only more accurate, and comprehensive than before, but also allows you greater control over the type of lunch you are looking for near the spot where you are going to be. There’s also a new page that allows you to look for lunch alphabetically by restaurant name, and another page that allows you to search an alphabetical list of restaurants by food type.
As with any new site, there are bound to be bugs- so if you find any don’t hesitate to let me know in the forums, or by emailing me at zach@midtownlunch.com
Thanks for all your support- and don’t hesitate to let me know what you think! (You guys always do…)
Posted: 12:01 am, May 18th, 2009 under News, Uncategorized.
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38 Comments
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I like the new look. Very clean!
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rock and roll Zach! looks awesome man
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Cool cool. Not sure if I’m liking the new Red & Yellow atop yet but could get used to it.
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Wow Zach. Looks awesome! Though, I never like change, I think I could get used to the new layout pretty quickly.
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Nice. Thank you.
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nice transition. the contact link doesn’t have the red and white graphic around it (the pseudo tab. i dunno what they call it in innernitsland)
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hmm. now it does. can’t induce the bug again. :) oh well, must be my browser. using google chrome.
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Nice job, Zach. The registration process is much less intrusive and annoying than I thought.
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Mazel Tov Zach
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@deanlo – we fixed it. Thanks!
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i failed “Prove you are Human” portion on the first attempt.
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a little jarring when i loaded up the page this morning; i’ll echo sentiments expressed by t.c. and ddr. thanx for the fora.
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i’m sorry zach, but that red and yellow has got to go… it hurts my eyes
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Augh, too early on a Monday to deal with change! (But it does look nice.)
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Zach,
Congratulations. I love the look of the new site. I need to explore it more. Great job! and even better – I am entitled to a $3 off coupon from Stop and Shop on your ad at the top of the page.
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What about a little more customization on our individual profile pages (e.g. allowing us to each list our favorite Midtown lunches, kinda like the “Profiled Lunchers)?
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…..why did registration require my HSBC offshore account details?
And no, i don’t want discount Viagra.
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Looks good, Zach.
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Congrats Zach! Guess this gets rid of spammers and anonymous comments ;)
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You should add Gravatar support.
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Zach,
Been with you since the beginning. This is the first thing I read everyday. Congrats. -
Now we are like one big happy family. I hope you take enough time to sit back and be extremely proud of what you have accomplished.
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The new design looks great. I can’t wait to look around. Keep up the hard work!
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zomg! I always knew Rudy was a cat!
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Has Mayor McCheese chimed in yet about stealing their color scheme?
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wait who’s going to register as ‘walgreens sandwich’?
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don’t like the yellow, but maybe that’s a woman’s point of view.
Congrats Zach!
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Looks great, Zach! Are you trying to make us hungry by using yellow and red? :)
Congratulations!!!
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WAIT A SECOND, if you’re introducing the forums TODAY, then why do the posts dated all the way back to April 28th?
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i miss the photo montage of the various lunches as the banner. otherwise, it’s a good look, zach.
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Love the new look congrats Zach.
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mfc,
Zach had a small trial period when he tried to work out the bugs with a few volunteers. Don’t be jealous ;-) hee hee -
congrats on the new design & forums!
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The new design looks great! Even though I don’t work in Midtown anymore, I still visit this site daily.
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Looks good.. congrats! No worries about getting any SPAM… Zach would most definitely eat it all before sending it out (umm.. that’s a play on words people! yeah, me crazy)
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Zach – I always loved the photos at the top. Now it looks like the site is one giant midtown lunch sandwich challenge ad.
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I’m jealous.
hurray! The new site looks great!