theBEAT

For Restaurants · Earned, never sold

Verified Favorites.
Unbiased podiums.

When a dish at your restaurant lands on a theBEAT podium — ranked #1, #2, or #3 in any dietary or editorial category, voted by real diners who actually ate it — you’ve earned a Verified Favorite. Window decal, social card, and a snippet for your site. All free. We never charge a restaurant a dollar.

No ads. · No paid placement. · Ranked by the room.

Podiums are live in the app. The badge program is not — yet.

In-app rankings start at launch. Restaurant outreach — the badges, decals, and embed snippets you see here — opens after we cross roughly two thousand active users, when podium order is steady week to week. Recognition that gets recalled isn’t recognition.


How it works

Three steps. No catch.

We do not sell placement. We do not take fees from restaurants. The badge is recognition for what the room already decided.

I

A dish lands on a podium.

Ranked #1, #2, or #3 in any dietary or editorial category — by diners who actually ate it. Verified by receipts and check-ins. Editorial baseline at launch; community-driven once vote volume settles.

II

We email you when it happens.

A short note, the dish, the rank, the link to download your badge files. Free, immediately, no strings.

III

Display it if you want.

Window decal, Instagram card, website embed — in your hands. Display it, ignore it, share it. The recognition stays either way.

No ads. No paid placement. Ranked by the room — real diners who actually ate it.

Earned, never sold · the only way it works

Website embed snippet

<a href="https://thebeatedit.com/restaurant/your-restaurant-slug" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> <img src="https://thebeatedit.com/verified-favorite/your-dish-slug.svg" alt="Verified Favorite by theBEAT — voted #1 by diners" width="320" height="180" style="max-width:100%; height:auto;" /> </a>

We’ll generate the exact snippet for your dish when the badge is ready. Drop it on your menu page or in your footer.


Two ways in, while you wait.

Rankings go live with the app. The first wave of restaurant outreach — badges, decals, embeds — goes out after we cross roughly two thousand active users. In the meantime, here are the two paths that work.

N° 001 · Get inside now

Become a Founding Member.

Lifetime access. $159 once. See the rankings the day they go live, vote right alongside everyone else, and watch your category from the inside.

$159 once · lifetime →

N° 002 · Wait for outreach

Notify me when badges go out.

No commitment. We’ll write you the moment the program activates — and if your dish is already on a podium, the badge files come with that note.

[email protected]

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