November 1, 2001

Restaurant.com Fills Tables In Restaurants Across America

Internet Site Drives Customers Through Restaurant Doors

NEW YORK, Nov. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Restaurant.com, the Internet's most comprehensive dining portal, invented a surefire formula to drive customers into restaurants. Teaming up with business forces eBay, The World's Online Marketplace(TM), and Sysco Foodservice, Restaurant.com is turning restaurant-goers on to a whole new world of fine dining.

"Our participating restaurants have seen their businesses prosper with our program. New customers are walking through their doors every day," Scott Lutwak, COO of Restaurant.com, said.

Founded in January 1999 Restaurant.com offers cash free marketing tools to restaurants to help them expand their business. The program offers restaurants unique exposure to both local and national audiences. In exchange for promotion within Restaurant.com's award winning national search engine, a featured listing on Microsoft's MSN, and exposure within eBay listings, a restaurant pledges gift certificates to Restaurant.com. In return, Restaurant.com builds each restaurant a website, replete with virtual tours, menus, wine lists, links to their current website and more. This website is then used within the Restaurant.com, MSN, and eBay networks as a vehicle to tempt hungry diners to buy gift certificates for participating establishments.

If the marketing of any particular restaurant is unsuccessful on Restaurant.com, the website and all advertising is 100% free. If the program is successful, it's expected the restaurant will enjoy a steady flow of customers in the door.

Steve Savad, CFO of Restaurant.com said, "It is hard for any restaurant to ignore the economics behind the program. Unlike the traditional forms of advertising, the restaurant pays no cash and never incurs any cost unless consumers are dining at their restaurant. We have taken the risk and uncertainty of advertising off of the shoulders of restaurateurs."

About Restaurant.com

Restaurant.com, founded in 1999, is a leader in the restaurant industry and with consumers. Restaurant.com's Web site and search engine contains information on 350,000 restaurants throughout North America.

Restaurant.com has prospered from key marketing partnerships, including its continuing alliance with eBay and Sysco Corporation (NYSE: SYY), the largest foodservice marketing and distribution organization in North America. Sysco's extensive sales force helps market Restaurant.com to their many customers across the country.

Additionally, Restaurant.com is now the No. 1 Featured Site on the MSN restaurant search page.

For more information about Restaurant.com, contact Cary Chessick at 847/602-7872 or email chessick@restaurant.com. For restaurants interested in joining Restaurant.com, call 800/979-8985, email info@restaurant.com or visit www.restaurant.com.