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In this article Danielle Gould interviews Justin Massa, the CEO and cofounder of Food Genius, an application which displays and analyzes dishes for users. Each dish in a restaurant is posted with a picture detailed with information such as ingredients used and cooking methods in order to make a more accurate suggestion for users. The goal of Food Genius is to pre-load data as much as possible and to change the way food recommendations are made.

In this article Vicky Gan, a strategic planning office member of The New York Public Library (NYPL), explains the digitized goals of the NYPL. One of the projects called "What's on the Menu" releases digitzed menus of restaurants, even of menus that are not used anymore by the service industry. At one point only a few could actually look at the hard copy collections of these menus, but now over 8,700 are digitally released in only four months. Sharing any information, even restaurant menus, help people across the nation. "What's on the Menu" has already been used by famous chefs such as Mario Batali and even stretches to fourth grade class projects studying food and exercise.