10Best Solutions

July 10, 2007

Deep Discounts at the Nation’s Best Restaurants Served up at 10Best.com

Partnership with Restaurant.com Gives 10Best.com Site Visitors Significant Savings on Restaurant Gift Certificates Nationwide

Greenville, S.C. – July 10, 2007 – One of the many joys of eating out is to continually experience new restaurants and indulge your senses with fresh culinary discoveries. Being able to enjoy your meal at a significant cost savings only adds to the pleasure. With this extraordinary combination in mind, 10Best has teamed up with Restaurant.com to give fine-dining lovers across the country a new way to explore thousands of restaurants nationwide, while saving significant money in the process.

Available immediately, site visitors to 10Best.com (www.10Best.com) can realize significant savings through a new partnership between 10Best, Inc. and Restaurant.com. 10Best, which provides unbiased expert travel advice to more than 40 million travelers a year, is able to leverage its extensive database of the nation’s finest restaurants into a valuable resource for those who want to make the most out of their dining experience.

The restaurant gift certificates are available at more than 8,000 restaurants nationwide. For ease of use, 10Best.com site visitors are able to view a complete listing of all the discount offers for a particular city in one convenient location, for more than 300 metro areas.

After choosing a Restaurant.com participating restaurant through 10Best.com, site visitors can purchase, print and present restaurant gift certificates that offer significant savings. For example, through this arrangement, a $25 restaurant gift certificate is available online for $10. For lighter fare, diners are able to purchase $10 dining certificates for $3. Diners are able to print out restaurant gift certificates from their own computers and present them upon arrival at the restaurant, which are honored and validated on-site.

“Whether diners prefer a casual or up-scale restaurant experience, everyone appreciates a great meal at an excellent price,“ said Brice J. Bay, president and CEO of 10Best, Inc. “This partnership with Restaurant.com gives consumers a tremendous variety of dining choices in thousands of restaurants across the country at an unprecedented value.“

This restaurant gift certificate program with Restaurant.com is only the latest offering from 10Best, Inc. In addition to gift certificates that offer savings at restaurants, the newly enhanced 10Best.com presents unbiased expert advice, as well as opinions and reviews from fellow travelers, on everything a trip might include—from restaurants and hotels, to entertainment, and other things to do—complete with current information on each listing.

Newly enhanced features on 10Best.com include:

• Expanded in-market content including city and state-specific profiles and weekend planners
• 10Best2Go™ – mobile content feature. Consumers get the travel advice they need delivered directly to their mobile phones or PDAs
• 10Best seasonal guides: Everything from the best one-tank trips for summer to fall foliage excursions and holiday shopping

10Best’s destination content is developed by a team of more than 40 travel experts who conduct exhaustive research with local media reviewers, in-market mystery travelers, independent journalists and consumer advocates. The information is then made available to travelers through 10Best lists of the best places to eat, sleep and play in more than 400 cities worldwide.

 

 

About Restaurant.com
Restaurant.com is an online dining resource that connects restaurant seekers and food lovers to more than 8,000 restaurants nationwide and to various online merchants. As the nation’s leading online directory of restaurants and restaurant gift certificate provider, the company brings people together to relax, converse and enjoy well-prepared and -served meals at affordable prices. Restaurant.com has operated continuously since 1999 and is based in Arlington Heights, IL.

 

About 10Best Inc.
10Best is a travel e-commerce company specializing in providing destination content, tickets, tours and related services to consumers directly (via www.10best.com) and through many corporate travel clients (hotel chains, online travel sites, airlines, etc.). 10Best is the market leader in search optimized city guide content with destination information in more than 457 cities worldwide. Annually, more than 25 million consumers use our information and services to help them make better decisions about where to eat, sleep and play.