More Than Salad

posted July 13 by

More Than Salad is now up and running and the basic functionality of the site is there. The important next step is to aggregate useful information into the site about all vegetarian restaurants all around the world. This process is ongoing and help is necessary to build the database up and to make it complete, and then of course to keep it current. Here is how to contribute:

1) Find the name and location of a vegetarian or vegan restaurant somewhere in the world. Restaurants that are not completely vegetarian are ok if they provide exceptional vegetarian or vegan options, especially in places where there are no completely vegetarian restaurants.

2) Search for information about that restaurant. Google is obviously the first place to start. Often a search for a restaurant name and a city or country name along with it will reveal tons of sources that have listed that restaurant elsewhere. Often by checking out a few different sources including the restaurant's website if one exists will yield a fairly complete picture of what sort of restaurant that is, what type of food they have, and all the other useful information necessary to make a complete listing.

3) Check if the restaurant already exists on More Than Salad. If it does, the record can be updated by anyone by clicking on "Update restaurant information" from the restaurant's page on MTS. If it does not, it can be added by anyone with an MTS account by clicking "Add a new place" from any page in the site. If you are a regular contributor, your new information will go directly into the database without being reviewed. If you are just getting started, your new information will be reviewed within 24 hours before being included in the site.

4) More Than Salad gets better!

Thanks to all of you who have started to contribute information. I promise to continue improving MTS and making it a complete resource for finding great places to eat all around the world.

posted July 12 by

Though nobody has complained about the speed of the site, perhaps you're all just being polite. More Than Salad is going to be moving to a cluster soon which means multiple servers at the same time running the site which means hopefully noticeably faster performance. There should be no downtime when the move occurs.

posted June 24 by

Well, after another round of improvements to the code, MTS is up and running. The major change is the system for adding restaurants which is now a much nicer page than it used to be. I've begun the process of adding tons of content to the site. My goal is to make MTS the most complete and up-to-date resource for finding vegetarian meals wherever one happens to be. Anyone can submit information or pictures. If you have any problems or questions please ask on the forums or let me know!

posted March 26 by

Well, here we are. I've started to roll out various improvements to MTS. The initial version was uploaded a few months ago and I received a lot of good feedback. I am going to continue to work on improvements and especially focus now on the content and building the database up from the myriad of sources I've gathered over the years. As usual, comments are welcome.