Month: January 2016

Food On Your Shirt creates logo

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Big love to Pierre & team at Food On Your Shirt for creating our Culinary Race logo!

A regular contributor to City Palate, Pierre’s current collections and work can be found on his website and his City Palate illustrations are in each edition of the City Palate Magazine.

BLTrun with letters

 

Sponsor: Yelp Calgary

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10 Things You Should Know About Yelp

  1. Yelp was founded in 2004 to help people find great local businesses like dentists, hair stylists and mechanics.
  2. Yelp had a monthly average of 21 million unique visitors who visited Yelp via the Yelp app and 69 million unique visitors who visited Yelp via mobile web in Q1 2016.*
  3. Yelpers have written more than 102 million reviews by the end of Q1 2016
  4. In addition to reviews, you can use Yelp to find events, lists and to talk with other Yelpers.
  5. Every business owner (or manager) can setup a free account to post photos and message their customers.
  6. Yelp makes money by selling ads to local businesses – you’ll see these clearly labeled “Yelp Ads” around the site.
  7. Paying advertisers can never change or re-order their reviews.
  8. Yelp uses automated software to recommend the most helpful and reliable reviews for the Yelp community among the millions we get. The software looks at dozens of different signals, including various measures of quality, reliability, and activity on Yelp. The process has nothing to do with whether a business advertises on Yelp or not. Learn more here.
  9. You can access Yelp via iPhone, Android, and more – see the full list of mobile apps here.)
  10. The Weekly Yelp brings locals updates on the latest and greatest business openings & other happenings.

 

Sponsor: City Palate

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City Palate has been celebrating Calgary’s food culture with their publication written for people who are passionate about good food and drink since 1993.

Their contributors include professional writers and professional food people who write food- and drink-related articles on the basis of seasonality and what’s happening in Calgary’s culinary scene with, as often as possible, a local focus.

Calgary has an ever changing food scene and City Palate has always been there to inform, educate, and entertain their readers by bringing together the producers, sellers and lovers of good food and drink.

City Palate is The Flavour of Calgary’s Food Scene.