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This app seems to be a rip off of HappyCow, but it has no user reviews, photos or any of the vibrancy from happy cow. I’ll stick with Happy Cow to keep the vegan community strong, keep all the restaurant and food information fresh and consolidated in the place where they exist now. The price of the Happy Cow app is tiny compared to the value it provides and it’s less than what I tip a great waiter at a restaurant anyway. I wish I could give more to happy cow for all the great meals it’s provided me and my family. I wish vanilla bean would focus on the unmet needs of the community instead.... there are so many! It must be so hard to come to work everyday to work on someone else’s idea, and to live in the shadow of another app that works well and has served the vegan community since for 20 years. In my experience it’s much more fun and gratifying to work on original ideas and to be innovative, creative and ground-breaking. Investors almost never make money from investing in copy cats, and creators almost never get satisfaction from replication. As someone who’s been In the restaurant business I am amazed at how many people use happycow across the world and how many millions of Happy Cow stickers are on the windows of local businesses across the world. I can never see that vibrant network being recreated by Vanilla Bean unfortunately... there’s no community in the app either.

I really like this app a lot! It’s really helpful and yeah it’s kinda the same as that other app but it’s free and I feel like it’s easier to use.🤷🏼‍♀️ I only wish more people were on it!! That would help inform my decision making. So I’m trying to get the word out. Download it, try it out, it’s very useful. Thank you Vanilla Bean!

It would be cool if the maps didn't default to "directions" with no option to see the location itself. I don't want to immediately know directions, I want to zoom in to see exactly where the place is located. In Google maps, I can't just look at the location without retyping in coordinates. I'm on an SE running iOS 11.4.1. It's also kinda clunky when searching for location rather than just "nearby". Maybe expand input parameters to include other variants? :) Everything else is great!