The 35 Apps for most popular restaurants in the United States

Growth in the use of smart phones or smartphone is an indisputable fact, we are becoming more we use these devices on a frequent basis, an increase in sales for this year is expected 2013 a 30% compared to the previous year.

The restaurant industry can not be outside of this mobile revolution and every day new applications that facilitate or near users appear to restaurants.

Several articles I have written in this blog about this topic, but today I would like to share with you an interesting infographic published recently in the American Portal FastCasual.com. It is a ranking, differentiated by category, of the App's restaurants on utilities Most Popular in United States, many of them are not born as a mobile application, but it is the PDA version of the web to the mobile version.

Es sin duda una oportunidad muy interesante para ver por donde van las nuevas tendencias en el uso de las App’s en la industria de los restaurantes e ir adaptando nuestro negocio a estos potenciales clientes.

Below each image you have links to each application.

1.- App's to locate a restaurant

Are mainly large well-known portals in the US and also internationally where you can find thousands of restaurants and booking available.

Urbanspoon, LocalEats, OpenTable, WhereToEat

2.- App's for opinions and experiences of other users

Utility based on the concept of online reputation transferred through hundreds of thousands of customer comments and photographs restaurants.

Yelp, Tripadvisor, Foodspotting, Citysearch, Local.com

3.- App’s sobre las características nutricionales en los restaurantes

Conocer los componentes nutricionales de los diferentes alimentos es una tendencia al alza en Estados Unidos y poco a poco también va encontrando su público en el resto del mundo.

Healthyout, Eatthisnotthat, Gluten Free Fast Food, Findmeglutenfree, Unified Lifestyle

4.- App's about special offers and promotions at restaurants

Market promotions in restaurants, perhaps within the sector, It is the fastest growing in the last five years.

Groupon, Livingsocial, Scoutmob, Happy Hours, Savored

5.- App's for takeout restaurants

A new market niche that many restaurants are finding to diversify its offerings and reach more customers.

Grubःub, Eat24, Seamless, or pizza, Delivery.com

6.- App's to pay the bill in restaurants

Es uno de los grandes retos de la tecnología para el corto plazo que indudablemente va a cambiar los hábitos en la forma de pago de los clientes de los restaurantes.