Why Some of the Information Seems Incomplete or Does Not Seem to Make Sense:
When discussing or referring to a restaurant in various parts of the site, there may be either a number or seemingly
incomplete information with regards to a restaurant. This occurs because a large part of this site is currently designed
around The Authoritative New York City Kosher Dining Guide, and as future guides come out those will be added as well.
In order to gain maximum benefit from the entire site, you will need to have the book relevant to the topic at hand.
As an example, the 5758 /1998 Edition of The Authoritative New York City Kosher Dining Guide has 288 pages covering 290
eating establishments, I in no way am willing to duplicate that amount of information on this webpage. Thus, the aforementioned
numbers are likely to be page references to the latest edition of the related book (eg. 5758/1998 edition in the 5758/1998 year),
or to the previous edition (there is an overlap period of support for the previous year's edition (eg. 5757/1997 edition in the 5758/1998 year) as noted.
Additionally, the information looks very nice in book form, and has a number of advantages over electronic printing.
Consumer response to the book has been extremely positive ("I love your book" is the most common). Also, the restaurant
discounts in the book render the book virtually free as the entire cost can be reasonably recovered in one meal. As a result
I have no compunction about requiring the purchase of our book for complete restaurant info and to avoid doing duplicate work.
Timely and accurate restaurant information is expensive to maintain and selling books is fundamental to our business, enabling us to maintain our standards of quality.
There are still many areas of the site which do not specifically deal with kosher restaurant information. The bookstore,
the restaurant reviews, the bulletin board, and the dining articles are a few such examples. In the spirit of the internet
these areas do provide meaningful content, and like the rest of the site they are freely accessible to anyone in the world with a computer and an internet hookup.
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