Mian Noor Shah
Restaurantor contributor
Mian Noor Shah is the founder and editor-in-chief of Restaurantor.com, a website that serves as an interactive tool for better restaurant choice based on extensive local research and analysis. Given his educational background as a software engineer, his experience in website development, and his strong interest in the restaurant business and consumer experiences, Mian Shah has decided to unite his skills in developing a website that would incorporate technology and local expertise along with the information from restaurant research.
Who Is Mian Noor Shah?
Mian Noor Shah is a software engineer and a web developer and the founder of Restaurantor.com, whose vision includes creating a useful resource on restaurants that goes beyond ratings, lists, and recommendations.
As the founder of Restaurantor.com, Mian plays two important roles: he develops and improves the website while establishing research criteria for Restaurantor, covering its contributors and defining criteria for choosing restaurants to include in local dining guides.
Such involvement of Mian in the processes related to the development and operation of Restaurantor.com becomes crucial due to the fact that the Restaurantor.com project is not considered a regular publication project but a well-structured restaurant information platform.
Why Mian Created Restaurantor.com
It seems like finding a restaurant online is not a big deal until you get down to actually choosing one.
The restaurant might have thousands of reviews, but those reviews could consist of old experiences, opposite opinions, tourist-based reviews, or negative feedback that doesn’t give the complete picture. Meanwhile, great neighborhood restaurants could go unnoticed amidst other highly promoted restaurants.
Mian realized that there was a way to structure all that information better.
The Restaurantor evaluates the restaurant’s reputation, the most recent feedback from customers, menu, prices, services, atmosphere, consistency, location, accessibility, and the kind of dining experience the reader wants to have. And, in case first-hand experience of visiting the restaurant exists, then it could serve as additional information without replacing the research process itself.
Technology Meets Restaurant Research
The software engineering and web development experience of Mian has been of critical importance while designing Restaurantor.com.
Whereas the conventional approach involved treating each guide separately as an article, his vision for the website involves creating a more comprehensive system wherein the restaurant, location, contributor, cuisine, and editorial research data would come together in a cohesive manner.
Some of his job duties include:
- Design and development of Restaurantor.com
- Setting editorial and restaurant research standards
- Coordinating regional contributor coverage
- Enhancing the structure and presentation of restaurant data
- Evaluating the user interface and search experience of the site
- Future planning of restaurant discovery tools and features
- Expansion of Restaurantor to new cities and countries
Technology, for Mian, should enhance the comprehension of restaurant research, not complicate it further.
Building Restaurantor Across the United States
Restaurantor.com is now starting its broad geographic coverage in the United States.
Editorially, the coverage is organized in terms of regional restaurant researchers specializing in certain states, cities, and restaurant scenes. The research may consist of a review of customer experience, investigation of menu and prices, reputation studies, analysis of recurrent reviews, and first-hand observation where feasible.
It is Mian who coordinates all this while working to expand the website itself.
This isn’t about generating the most restaurant lists as fast as possible. This is about creating coverage that would give readers a reason to believe why this restaurant has been mentioned.
A Global Vision for Restaurantor
The United States is simply the beginning.
Mian Noor Shah’s long-range vision for the development of Restaurantor.com is to grow the restaurant information website through regional contributors in major markets around the globe that can provide insight into the cities, cuisine, and eating habits of their local community.
Restaurantor will continue to explore new destinations within North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Australia, and elsewhere as the website expands.
The basic premise will stay the same: research, context, transparency, and advice based on actual dining choices.
Mian’s Role Today
For now, however, Mian Noor Shah continues to guide Restaurantor.com forward as its founder and developer as well as determining the editorial and technical direction of the website.
He straddles the worlds of software development, publishing, restaurant research, and local information discovery. To Mian Noor Shah, Restaurantor’s mission statement is quite simple: help the person who wants to go out to dinner make informed choices about where they want to dine.