Eat Everywhere Application Analysis

Nowadays, the amount of restaurant, food stall and food court are increasing day by day and cause the kind of them becomes more diversified and wide. Each of the restaurant has their own signature food and different price list. Thus, this kind of situation cause people feel difficulties and waste a lot of time while making their choice due to there are too many restaurant and food court. Therefore, the main purpose of developing this Eat Everywhere application is to help users to become an astute consumer and save plenty of time by lead them to their nearest restaurant. Other than that, the second purpose of this application is allow users to provide rating and comment about the restaurant, food court or stall. For example, users is able to

As Patrick Spenner and Karen Freeman (2012) said, “To keep your customer, keep it simple”. Nowadays, the application users is lazy to read and prefer simple stuff. Therefore, this application is develop to make it simple and easy to use by the society. As this application is easy to used, then it may help the users to save time and cost.

1.3 Rationale

Based on the condition above, Eat Everywhere application will be a virtual mobile application which allows users or society to search for food they want and lead them to the restaurant. This application help users save a lot of time and more convenient. Besides that, this application is also manage to reduce the workload of the administration staff. This is because all the picture and descriptions is done by the restaurant and admin only provide a platform to them which allowed them to upload their restaurant’s information into the database.

1.4 Potential Benefits

1.4.1 Tangible benefits

It can preserve environment. For example, they can reduce the uses of flyer and coupon which is used to advertise their restaurant. Restaurant side can just simply update their information on the application, so that the users able to get know about their

The propose system is a restaurant guiding virtual mobile application. Therefore, lead the users to their desired restaurant would be the main function for them. Thus, a discussion will be made in order to discuss the importance of this application.

Nowadays, the number of smartphone users has been dramatically increasing due to the growth of technology. According to eMarketer (2014), “The global smartphone audience surpassed the 1 billion mark in 2012 and will total 1.75 billion in 2014. eMarketer expects smartphone adoption to continue on a fast-paced trajectory through 2017.” Thus, based on figure 1, the number of application for smartphone will also increase due to the increasing for the number of smartphone users. Therefore, there are many type of mobile application and each type of application provide different function such as navigation, online purchasing, online banking, games, book and so on. Figure 1: A graph that shows the increasing number of smartphone users and decreasing number of mobile phone users, adopted from Srivastava