We Dine
Indy
A local dining experience, created for and by culinary enthusiasts. Making it easier for local to find local through a single online ordering marketplace for Indiana independent restaurants, cafés, breweries, and other food and beverage businesses.
About Us
We Dine Indy is a philosophy: that great local restaurants, cafés, breweries, and other food and beverage spots are ready to be found, or are already a part of your neighborhood story. By bringing them together in a single online ordering marketplace, We Dine Indy gives you an easy way to find, favor, and order from Indiana independent spots that share your commitment to local. Whether you live here or you’re just passing through, one account and many clearly local options make it easy to skip the guesswork and choose local on purpose every time you order.
With the partnerships We Dine Indy has created, there is a single universal gift card that can be used at a variety of Indiana food and beverage spots. The We Dine Indy universal card program only supports Indiana owned and operated venues making it the best alternative to gift cards from big corporate chains available to you. We offer great variety of food and beverage styles all over the state, so help someone go and explore a new place or return to an old favorite!
Choose Local on Purpose
Finding local is easy. Head to our marketplace to explore independently owned Indiana restaurants, cafés, breweries, and other food and beverage spots that I’ve personally met with, interviewed, and chosen to support. Every venue you see is somewhere I’m proud to feature across the We Dine Indy page and marketplace, as well as my other efforts: broadcast, print, events and social. My visibility work always starts with people and grows out of genuine fandom for what they do and how they do it.
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Shop Our Marketplace
Find gift cards, dining accessories, and locally branded goods to go along with your next night out. Shop the Marketplace.
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~We Dine Indy~
If you are a food / bev business, reach out to join our marketplace. We also offer gift card services, Point of Sales systems, consulting in business processes, technologies, service training programs, and custom branded products. Pricing is simple and transparent. We have experience sourcing hard to find products and consulting on difficult operational issues. We can address your longstanding problems.
Why Buy Local
- Research suggests that buying local keeps about 65% of each dollar in the community, compared to roughly 40% when spending at large chain stores. Source
- Buying local food reduces “food miles”: while the average piece of produce in the US travels about 1,500 miles, local food often travels 100 miles or less, cutting fuel use and pollution. Source
- A review of independent business studies concludes that communities with more locally owned businesses see higher income growth and lower poverty levels than places dominated by large chains. Source
- Local retailers and small businesses are significant job engines: one analysis found that local retailers employ about 47 people per $10 million in revenue, while a large online retailer employs only about 19 people per $10 million. Source
- Counties with a larger share of local small businesses have lower poverty rates, faster employment growth, and stronger per-capita income growth, indicating that buying from local firms supports more resilient local economies. Source
- Even Microsoft knows how important local is: Microsoft has highlighted that while its products are global, much of the local economic benefit comes from local partners. In 2009, its partner ecosystem (roughly 700,000 firms) generated about $537 billion in revenue, with those revenues remaining in local communities around the world. Source
Request a Restaurant
Don’t see a favorite local spot yet? Tell us who you love so we can invite them to join.
Whether you’re a regular or you run the place, your suggestion helps more neighbors join in our local support loop.
Location
Westfield, IN