THE PRICE HIKE

The Price Hike is holding a “Most Excellent Menu Contest!” to get more restaurants to join Tumblr. Why? Because we want more restaurants to join Tumblr. That’s why. 

Is there any better way of incentivizing Americans to do anything than by holding a contest? Okay, okay, money is probably a better way. Unfortunately, we have very little money. So, we’re running with the contest.

Here’s How It Works: If you’re a restaurant, go join Tumblr, then publish or link to your menus on Tumblr. It’s that simple. Takes about 5 minutes. If it’s any good, we’ll show you a little love. If it’s really good, you might WIN.

Here’s The Deal: If you can afford to print out your menus for daily dinner service, which takes time and costs money, you can afford to post your menus on Tumblr, which takes no time and costs no money. Sure, some prefer Twitter. Others prefer Facebook. But why ignore Tumblr, with its 65 million blogs and 27.6 billion posts?

As part our contest, we at The Price Hike will be highlighting awesome restaurants with awesome Tumblrs over the next two months. Gotta spread the love, right? But we’ll also be highlighting restaurants with no online menus or prices, or restaurants with non-iPhone compatible websites.

Gotta use some peer pressure too. 

Tumblr is an awesome way for restaurants and bars to create a conversation around menus, prices, and daily specials. And Tumblr is one of the easiest ways for diners to curate (and get a curated feed about) what’s going on at their favorite places to eat. It’s most definitely a GOOD DEAL and a STRONG BUY. 

So without further adieu, here are the delicious contest details: 

1. The name of this most excellent menu contest is THE PRICE HIKE’S MOST EXCELLENT MENU CONTEST!
2. Restaurants, bars or nightclubs can ENTER the contest by joining Tumblr. That’s it. We’ll find you. Maybe. But if you wanna give us a heads up and send us an email (ryanpsutton at gmail.com), that would make our lives easier! 
3. Venues should publish (or link to) their menus, wine lists, or daily food & drink specials, as frequently as possible on Tumblr between now and September 20th.
4. We realize some venues will prefer to use Tumblr to show off a few nightly specials or events, while linking back to their own websites for full food or wine menus. We’re totally on board with that. We only ask you provide prices on the items you list on Tumblr if you want to WIN.
5. Menus or daily specials must have prices. MP doesn’t count!
6. Our judging committee will announce the victor on September 21st. We’ll give a free t-shirt or something to the winner. But really, EVERYONE WINS.
7. The judging committee will consist of a variety of industry experts. KIDDINGZ. Price Hike & Bad Deal editor Ryan Sutton is the judging committee. That’s me.

Alright boys and girls. Go Tumble away.