FOOD.COM

The days of "Honey, I'm home! What's for dinner?" have gone the way of paper drinking straws and rotary telephones. Between work, working late and working out, you're lucky if you have time to microwave a meal, much less make one yourself. So what if you could custom order a meal from any restaurant you want, have it delivered any time you want, and do it without getting up from your desk? Well, now you can with Food.com. It all began with a movie - The Net. Food.com's co-founder, Tim Glass watched Sandra Bullock's character surf her way to a cyber-pizzeria and order herself a pie. Immediately, he recognized the brilliance of this idea and proceeded to pull together a team of pros to turn this fiction into a reality. The result is Food.com. The nation's leading online food takeout and delivery service. The technology behind it is at once both sophisticated and simple. Simple in that the only thing restaurants need to provide is a phone; no Internet connection, no computer, not even a fax machine, just a phone. Sophisticated in that Food.com allows customers to browse menus online, find restaurants in their neighborhoods, see daily specials, and even order their meals hours, days or weeks in advance. Little wonder that an idea borne out of a Hollywood movie has attracted Hollywood interest. Rich Frank, former studio boss and now Food.com's CEO, is dedicated to making Food.com the definitive Web site for everything having to do with food. And with over 12,000 restaurants already participating nationwide and over 500,000 registered Food.com members, his vision is proving to be a hit among consumers and restaurateurs alike.