SPOTLUCK ADDS BETHESDA ROW RESTAURANTS TO ITS HYPERLOCAL DEALS APP

Remember the Spotluck app for iPhone and Android I reported on a few weeks back? As promised, it has added more restaurants in the Bethesda Row area to its database. New restaurants include: Newton’s Table, Redwood, Tyber Bierhaus, Pitzze, Markham’s, Parker’s, Mussel Bar, Cesco Osteria, and Lebanese Taverna.

Spotluck is simple to use, but also has complex algorithms behind the screens. For example, it calculates how low the discount needs to be to attract diners out to restaurants on a rainy Tuesday night.

NEW APP OFFERING RANDOM SAVINGS AT BETHESDA RESTAURANTS

A new mobile app arrived in town last night to save you money at Bethesda restaurants. Spotluck is the latest discount service to follow the mercurial path of pioneers Groupon and LivingSocial. The new twist with Spotluck is that your savings are random, based on the results of one spin per day on the app.

Restaurants on Spotluck now include 4935 Bar and Kitchen, Brickside Food & Drink, Flanagan's Harp & Fiddle, Freddy's Lobster and Clams, Grapeseed, La Panetteria, MOMO Chicken + Jazz, Passage to India, Roof, and Yamas Mediterranean Grill. The company says Bethesda Row restaurants will be added to the app soon.

Attracting attention to the app in the Woodmont Triangle last night was a green visitor. Not a man from outer space, but a robot from Google. Spotluck is available on iPhone, and on the green guy's phone (Android), too.