- When longing for a specific dish to have when you go out for dinner, current restaurant review websites do not provide you with enough information - the reviews are often very generic and hence not appointing to the quality of dishes served. Additionally, these crowd-sourced review sites do not provide useful information for the restaurants, as the written reviews do not tackle specific elements of a restaurant.
- Platemates.com is a crowd-sourced review site where restaurant guests can write reviews per dish. When longing for lasagne, Platemates will provide you with a ranking of restaurants where the lasagnes are best. This principle traces the idea of going out for dinner back to its essence: the food. Platemates also stimulates culinary innovations as the reviews per dish provide chefs excellent feedback on their cooking.