Another website to enhance your dining expierence

Shortly after I blogged about and wrote an article on Mary Bigham and her website, http://www.wcdish.com/, I received an e-mail from another West Chester area resident, Chris Dima. He operates http://www.westchestermenu.com/. This site is especially beneficial for people that are not so familiar with the several eating establishments in the borough. While WC Dish provides reviews and blog posts about restaurants, West Chester Menu provides a complete listing of menus, addresses and contact information for the restaurants in the area. This is especially helpful for people that may want to try a new place, but want some info about the establishment, before going there.

Dima said via e-mail that he left West Chester University in 1996 and then became a teacher in Philly. After a few years, he decided he wanted to join the .com world. Later on, he bought a house in the borough with his wife and saw an ad for Economy.com. After a few months working for the company, he did marking and design work.

The idea for the website came from some of his observations at work about a year ago, when he noticed his colleagues swarming around a co-workers desk, seeking menus. "So, the idea was born to create a virtual folder of menus, or an Internet site dedicated to West Chester that listed complete menus," Dima said.

Dima bought the website last summer and takes pride in it. He said it gets over 5,000 hits a month. "The reason they like it, I think, is that it's simple, uncluttered with advertisements, and, most importantly, completely dedicated to the greater West Chester community," Dima said.