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The Cheesecake Factory is definitely known for their cheesecake, but they are also known for their extremely large selection of choices on their menu. There are over 400 menu items not including drinks! On top of all of this, they still have a large number of new menus items that they are introducing on a regular basis. [...]

We like to have fun when doing internal training in the office and we have a CEO (Justin Massa) who loves Jeopardy. Combine this with our menu platform Food Genius Reports, and you generate all sorts of useful facts. We thought it would be fun to share the questions and answers so that you can [...]

Chicago, IL – September 11, 2012 – Food Genius, which provides data-based restaurant insights to the food industry, has raised $1.2 million in venture capital. Chicago’s Hyde Park Venture Partners and Hyde Park Angels led the round; other investors include New World Ventures, IDEO, Amicus Capital, and the I2A Fund. “With this funding, Food Genius [...]

Crain’s Chicago Business and Food Genius recently paired up to uncover Chicagoans’ hot dog behavior and we’ve found some interesting results! Contrary to popular belief, Chicago is only the 28th Top Hot Dog City in terms of availability (4th of the more populated cities) with only 1.20% of menus containing hot dog items according to Food Genius’ [...]

Chicago, Illinois, USA – March 1, 2012 – Food Genius, a Chicago based food data analytics company, today announced the launch of FoodGenero.us.  Described as a “Hot-or-Not” of restaurant dishes, FoodGenero.us is a website that allows users to rate dishes from its database of menus. Food Genius will donate money to Feeding America based on [...]

Video Game-Inspired Cuisine Ever wonder what those mushrooms in Super Mario Bros. might actually taste like? One foodie gamer decided to riff on that idea in a food blog. Scotland-based gamer Daniella Zelli creates recipes based on video games. The World of Warcraft-inspired mincemeat fruitcake sounds particularly inspired. Check out the blog and recipes (complete [...]

Last week, Food Genius and our friends / hosts at IDEO set out on a mission to eat as much curry as we could in a 3-hour time period. Starting from the IDEO office in the West Loop, we piled into the back of a truck decorated to look like an Indian restaurant, cranked up [...]

The Food Genius + IDEO Curry Crawl will be hitting the streets of  Chicago tonight, be on the lookout From 5-8pm, a group of designers from IDEO and the Food Genius team will hop from restaurant-to-restaurant, trying out some of Chicago’s best curry dishes. Powered by the Food Genius API, the Curry-Mobile (aka Uhaul decorated [...]

Tastiest Food Pyramid Ever We all know that baking is a science, right? Here’s a project that proves it: a cool visualization of  the ingredient makeup  of popular baked goods.  Three Harvard researchers, mathematician Michael Brenner, computer scientist grad student Elaine Angelino and undergraduate Diana Cai, analyzed thousands of recipes for cookies, brownies, cakes and [...]

Dear friends: It’s been an amazing year for the Food Genius team, from our initial launch to our summer at Excelerate Labs to our current residency at IDEO. None of our progress would have been possible without the support and feedback from our users and members of the food and tech communities. Thank you so [...]