Savored used to be called VillageVines, and it rebranded in June 2011, when it also added Buddy Media's Michael Lazerow as an investor and board member.
Savored is used by some 1,000 restaurants and gives diners discounts of up to 40% when they book through the site.
Explains co-founder Rich DeNardis, consumers who visit Savor can still use the service the way they might a more traditional couponing website – that is, by searching for offers, or browsing through categories.
And does the world realize what a great loss it is to those of us who would prefer to savor its use?
Visitors sit in a sala amid the plants and flowers and savor a freshly made lunch using vegetables, herbs, bamboo and ginger grown in other parts of the gardens and its permaculture demonstration farm.
In fact, savoring can be used to connect you to the past or future, argues Bryant.
In Chicago, mk the Restaurant has used Savored for about a year, putting the Sunday-to-Thursday 5 30, 6, 8 and 8 30 slots at a discount (8 p.m. and later is off-peak for Chicago diners, says the office manager of mk, Megan Jeyifo).
More than 1,000 restaurants nationwide have used Savored's unique platform for yield management.
More than 1,000 businesses nationwide have used Savored's platform for restaurant yield management to offer diners the lowest possible prices at some of the best restaurants.
However, Savor will prompt users to sign up using Facebook, which allows the service to tap into their "likes" and interests on the social network, so Savor can present the most relevant deals.
As Adam and Eve motor through a desolate Detroit, and savor its picturesque melancholy, just as eighteenth-century noblemen, on the Grand Tour, used to savor classical ruins, does their aesthetic pose not hide a moral indifference?
