Oakland, Calif. -December 15, 1999 - MenuUSA.com (www.menuusa.com) launched today as the premier E-commerce supply chain and restaurant portal in the food industry online.
More than 360 lunches prepared by Bob Chinn’s Crab House- the 4th top grossing independent restaurant in the United States - are being delivered to over 300 editors of national magazines, newspapers and online publications. Each of these seafood packages is a dinner sampler including Alaskan King Crab legs, 1LB of Florida stone Crab Claws, ½ LB of Kona Crab Clusters, ½ LB Peel and Eat Garlic Shrimp and Garlic Blue Crab Claw Combo, a 1 Pint New England Clam Chowder and 4 dinner rolls along with 1 Quart of Bob Chinn’s World Famous Mai Tai sauce delivered overnite. This move is taken by MenuUSA.com to announce its official launch on the Internet.
MenuUSA.com is designed to serve the food industry population from restaurant owners, food suppliers, organizations and associations to diners and general merchandising consumers. MenuUSA.com not only provides the food industry professional with extensive specialized resources and services, it also serves the general public as a daily necessity and information gateway of the Millennium. It is the first Internet service that promotes the interactions between diners, restaurants, and suppliers and meeting the demands of these clients in one place with food industry resource and Internet technology.

"We developed MenuUSA.com to provide the general public with most comprehensive and valuable resources and services in both food industry and Internet commerce, our most important assets are our knowledge and experience in both food and Internet industry.” said Kong Yu, MenuUSA.com president and CEO. "We are committed to construct MenuUSA.com to be the next super-site online and a house hold name among the general public in the Millennium."

MenuUSA.com spans across the two industries that are both growing exponentially, according to the 1997 census by U.S. Department of Commerce, the food service industry ranks the third largest in nation, reaching a $350 billions sales total in 1997. And the current Internet E-commerce $5 billion market is expected to hit “hyper growth” over the next five years, pushing the market to over $220 billion by 2001.

Encouraged by these statistics and equipped with the extensive knowledge and valuable experience in both the restaurant business and Internet solutions, Kong Yu, also President and Chief Executive Officer of SBS Inc (Small Business Solution Incorporated) formed MenuUSA.com in June 1999.
 
Diner With the potential online users of 85 million in US, MenuUSA.com provides diners with services such as Online food order, Online food supply order, fully developed restaurant search engine, virtual tour of the restaurant, online reservations with the restaurant, online chat room, forums, customer care, rating and commenting of the restaurant, as well as Online Party auctions, recipe banks, cooking tips and shows, and other useful resources.
Restaurant
An estimated of nearly 500,000 restaurant businesses in the nation will benefit from MenuUSA’s customized database with online registration, edit menu, facility, restaurant info/background, press release, chef bio, employee bio, recipes, cooking show, other features include restaurant virtual tour, online reservation, signature dish, daily special, newsletter, employee schedule, wine list, coupons, promotions, awards, gift certificate, Join/Post Party-bid and utilized automated daily check-in, and other customized features restaurant might want to include. All the functions are accessible 24 hours a day 7 days a week by the restaurants themselves.
Supplier
Seafood Lunches Hit the desks of media editors through out the nation as MenuUSA.com officially launches Today -1/15/2000 Nearly 360 premium seafood lunch packages are delivered today to major national media editors by MenuUSA.com to announce and celebrate its official launch today – a site serving the multi-billion dollar industry of food service and Internet E-commerce.

In addition to all the services available to restaurant businesses, MenuUSA designed a series of services for all the retail and wholesale suppliers in the industry, these include online interactions with other businesses, calendar, intranet, global supplier-trading center.

Site Overview
At www.MenuUSA.com, the site is accessible 24 hours a day, seven days a week. MenuUSA.com was designed with convenience in mind. The site's interactive interface is optimized for speed and simplicity, with quick-loading pages and search features that browses the nearly 500,000 restaurants and suppliers nationwide in a variety of fashions. In addition, the site offers secure online ordering to ensure the safety of all customer transactions by encrypting sensitive data.