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This restaurant is unique for many reasons. First of all, it is the first burger search location in Old Montreal. My walk through the area garnered at least 6 more locations to visit through the future. Secondly, as I was consulting the menu outdoors, I was ushered in by an employee. Strange, but I was going in anyways, and I didn’t really need the convincing. The third unique point was that the food came through a window. In all of my life, I have never seen a meal being taken to table after being taken through a window. All in all, the service was considerate, though listening to the servers talk about their tips and strategies, was a little uncomfortable.

Burger w/Brie cheese and bacon

This burger contains greens, tomatoes, onions, Brie cheese, and bacon.

This burger contains a cheese that I just recently discovered for its complementary in this situation. Brie cheese works well in combination with bacon and beef. The taste is good and it does not overpower the burger whatsoever. The bun, in this burger, is not as soft as it could have been, but that didn’t really affect the overall taste. The bacon, as the meal progressed, started falling out. This was due to the fact that they were not in strips, but in pieces. This was not a big deal as I placed the pieces in the poutine for added oomph. Overall, the burger in consistent and does not force one to overdo themselves, especially when in combination with the salad and poutine upgrade.

*BONUS*

The burger search also allows me to take in poutine from time to time. This restaurant has it in its name, so the expectations are huge. The poutine itself has all the proper ingredients for it to work. The cheese curds are good and its nice to see the strings come from it as you’re eating. The sauce compliments the fries well. It wasn’t a tough to poutine to eat at all. All the components were appropriately covered and nothing was cold. Cold parts are drawbacks to other poutine, but this one didn’t have that. During the meal, the pieces of bacon that I added just went so well with what I already had. I can only imagine how good the bacon poutine here must be.

Mr. Lew’s Great Burger Search

Extraits de l’émission Sucré Salé diffusée le 24 mai 2011 avec France Beaudoin comme invitée.

Il y a peut-être quelqu’un qui va reconnaître son oeuvre dans le background. Elle a toute une histoire cette toile-là.

Montréal, le 13 juillet 2011 – La populaire émission américaine The Today Show (NBC) sera diffusée, pour la première fois de son histoire, à l’extérieur des États-Unis. Montréal sera l’hôte de deux épisodes de la quatrième heure de cette émission matinale.

Parmi les deux émissions captées, l’une sera diffusée en direct de la place Jacques-Cartier, le jeudi 14 juillet de 10h à 11h. La deuxième émission sera diffusée le 15 juillet, soit le lendemain à la même heure. Les animatrices vedettes, Kathie Lee Gifford et Hoda Kotb, présenteront à plus de 4 millions de téléspectateurs, les particularités culturelles de Montréal et du Québec et ce qui en fait une destination fort prisée des américains. Elles recevront sur leur plateau plusieurs personnalités locales qui partageront leur passion pour le Québec. LeCirque du Soleil et les Barenaked Ladies seront également de la fête.

L’équipe de production de l’émission invite le public à assister aux enregistrements en plein air sur la place Jacques-Cartier et sur la rue Saint-Paul Est.

MONTREAL — You might not think a poutine joint would be Web savvy, but Alain Agostini jokes he always has a fryer in one hand and his iPhone in the other.

The owner of Montreal Poutine in Old Montreal says he has been obsessed with Twitter ever since he realized its potential to improve his business.

“At 11:30 on a weekday, a lot of people will say on Twitter, ‘I’m hungry.’ We’ll reach out to those people in the name of the company and respond to those needs. If you say that you’re hungry, you could get a message saying: ‘Come to our restaurant today. We have a great special.’ ”

Retail analyst Maureen Atkinson, a managing partner of J.C. Williams Group, said consumers like to deal with small businesses because of the service they get. New social media tools allow small businesses to capitalize on that edge.

“People want to ask businesses questions and get answers, and they want to do it anytime of the day or night, even if the store or restaurant is closed,” Atkinson said.

“Social media allows companies to do what they have always done, which is to have that one-to-one personal relationship.”

Another company offering new web solutions to small businesses is Yellow Pages Group Inc. As of January, the company began offering website building services, and search engine optimization tools, as part of what the company calls its 360-degree solution. The company is targeting its 400,000 listed businesses to enhance their web offerings.

Annie Marsolais, the communications director for YPG, said only 65 per cent of the companies that list with YPG have websites, and many of them are very basic. She said there is increasing evidence from market research for companies to have a strong online presence.

“More than 70 per cent of consumers look for information online before making a purchase, so you have to have a web presence to have credibility,” Marsolais said.

She said the next step for YPG is to develop an offering to help optimize social media — a product that will be available in 2012.

In addition to improving websites, many medium-size businesses are also looking at the web as a way to boost revenue by offering online sales.

Jean-Francois Rioux, the CEO of Alogient Inc., which develops ecommerce solutions for businesses said the cost of offering online sales continues to drop — costing as little as $75 per month for a basic service — which has allowed more businesses to offer the service.

He said one of his clients, the camera store Lozeau, was able to expand its sales at a fraction of what it would cost to set up a new branch of the store.

However, Rioux cautioned that ecommerce strategies, while inexpensive, are not for the smallest businesses because they require a large time commitment from employees who must be available to answer questions, sort through orders, and ship out packages.

He said that companies should also be careful before investing too much time in social media. “It can do a great job for big companies, or trendy companies,” Rioux said. “You need to realize with social media, the type of people you’ll be attracting will be the younger age demographic.”

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