MEET COURSE Restaurant guide

THE personal restaurant guide fueled by private ratings and artificial intelligence that learns youR own unique taste & calculateS your compatibility with restaurants & bars everywhere.

“The way Netflix, Spotify and Amazon suggest movies, music and products for you (regardless of how popular they are) COURSE® utilizes artificial intelligence to identify the restaurants you’re most likely to love.”

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THE INDEPENDENT RESTAURANT RECOVERY

COURSE® is the only digital dining guide that employs deep learning TasteRecognition©️ to learns what your own unique personal PersonalTaste Profile - i.e., what you like, what you don’t like and what you might be willing to try…so that you can eat like a local everywhere.

Discovering more favorite restaurants & bars with COURSE®

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Taste is personal; which is why, if you’re like most people, you occasionally struggle with deciding where to have dinner or grab a drink... especially when you’re traveling or learning your way around a new city.

In fact, an overwhelming majority of us turn to online reviews when trying to make such a decision.

But online reviews are not only tainted by bias, they’re bought and sold every day… which is why they’re not only unreliable, they’re often damaging as well.

So I asked myself - If any employee with an axe to grind can post a negative review, positive reviews are buried beneath the negative ones (unless the operator pays to play) and McDonald’s has 5 star ratings in almost every city across America… who’s really benefiting from these sites anyway? It’s neither the restaurants nor you.

That’s why my team and I set out to develop the world’s most personalized approach to restaurant recommendations. We call it COURSE®

COURSE® ignores the public reviews and, instead, makes personalized dining recommendations by collecting, crowdsourcing, classifying and cross-referencing the most valuable opinions on the planet - yours.

Instead of having to rely on the personal opinions of others... COURSE® lets you rely on your own opinions. Our proprietary taste recognition AI software gradually learns what makes you happy and then generates a list of restaurant recommendations specifically suited to your own personal taste and individual preferences.

When you download the COURSE® app, you begin to develop your Personal Taste Profile by taking fun Food Quizzes and privately reviewing some of the restaurants you’ve already been to.

You can answer as many, or as few, of those questions as you’d like; but the more questions you answer ....and the more restaurants you privately review on COURSE® the more COURSE® will be able to accurately predict which restaurants are your favorites... including the ones you haven't even tried yet.

COURSE® is like having a friend in every city (with a perfect memory) who gets to know you well enough to make solid dining recommendations whenever you want them.

It doesn’t matter where the restaurants are located, how many other people like them or how much money they spend on advertising because COURSE® doesn't just suggest the most popular restaurants or the ones most highly rated by other critics…Course recommends the restaurants YOU’RE most likely to appreciate.

This is a level of personalization that every one deserves and we’re offering it to not only better serve you - but to also level the playing field for smaller independent restaurants who might not be able to afford a location on Main Street or a social media management firm to help them “game” the system.

So…for those whose taste might not be “mainstream” - this is your chance to take the very first look at COURSE®!

Crack it open, build a profile, take some of the Taste Personality Quizzes, privately review some of the #restaurants you’ve already been to and try out some of the exciting features like Course Lists - and let us know if there are any features you’d like to see added.

Let’s eat!

Josh Sapienza

BITCHIN' IMPOSSIBLE

It's literally (and we don't take the word "literally" lightly) impossible to slam a restaurant on COURSE because your ratings and reviews are kept private instead of being broadcasted for everyone to see.

We don’t share any of your ratings. Instead, we use them productively - to learn precisely what you like and where you’d love to go next.

The more you use COURSE, the more accurately it can predict the places and menu items you’re most likely to enjoy.

Let’s be honest, restaurant operators have enough to manage without having to protect and defend their online reputation. That’s why the only person affected by a negative review on COURSE is the person giving the negative review - since each member’s ratings affect their own pool of results when they open the app. Looking for a soapbox? This ain’t it.

MIND-BLOWING PERSONALIZATION

When you download COURSE by Hawser, you're presented with a series of food quizzes. Take one or take them all. ..bt the more quizzes you take, and more restaurants you privately rate - the faster your PersonalTaste Profile™ will develop.

Your answers to the quiz questions help to feed the neural net algorithm which gradually learns more and more about your: likes, dislikes, expectations and even how willing you might be to try something new. If you get tired of taking quizzes, you can always hit the pause button (there’s no time limit).

Your personally identifying information is never sold or shared with third parties for any reason including but not limited to: ad targeting, marketing, unwanted solicitations. we know that’s not popular but we’re very ok with not being popular.

A MORE INDIVIDUALIZED APPROACH

Sometimes it’s hard for restaurants to get the word out and, ironically, many restaurant rating and review sites have a tendency to actually hurt good restaurants (and artificially inflate mediocre ones with huge advertising budgets).

By keeping the reviews (and the reviewers) private, and preventing restaurants from advertising with us; COURSE is not only able to maintain the integrity of the data; but is also able to mitigate the propensity for herd mentality which not only damages some restaurants’ reputations but jeopardizes the employment of those who work so hard to maintain them.

We’re eliminating the negative effects of pay-to-play platforms, bots, fake reviews, purchased reviews, and reviews by those who have an ax to grind…simply by taking all of that out of the equation.

We don't think anyone’s opinion is more valuable than another’s and we don’t want consensus to influence people's opinions with pre-conceived notions or limit anyone's interest in trying something they may like - even though it may not be the most popular place in town.

Popularity doesn’t reflect everyone’s opinion and every one’s opinion matters. That’s why we're asking you to supporting private ratings & diverse tastes.