NYC Food Identity Platform · Est. 2026

You're not random. You're a type.

A 12-question quiz reads how you actually eat in New York and matches you to one of seven archetypes. From there: vendors, events, neighborhoods, and partner experiences that fit who you are — not who an algorithm guesses you are.

7 Locked Archetypes
75K+ Live Event Attendees / Year
30K+ Newsletter Subscribers
200+ NYC Operators in Network

Seven ways to eat New York.

Every New Yorker eats by pattern. How you eat is not random. The Taste ID system locks seven archetypes — built from twenty years of operator pattern recognition across markets, events, and neighborhoods.

/ 01 Regular You keep it simple. You keep it good.
/ 02 Pilgrim You'll go out of your way for the right spot.
/ 03 Cynic You've seen it before. You're rarely impressed.
/ 04 Purist You don't experiment. You refine.
/ 05 Chaser If it's trending, you're already there.
/ 06 Skipper You skip meals, not standards.
/ 07 Local You don't chase hype. You move by block.
/ 08 Which one are you? Take the quiz → 30 seconds. Get your type.

Three steps. Built for New York.

01
Take the quiz

Twelve questions. Thirty seconds. No email gate to get to the questions — built on Interact's personality quiz format so you finish before you'd close the tab.

02
Get your type

One of seven archetypes lands in your inbox with a results card you'll actually want to share. That archetype becomes the signal every recommendation runs against from here.

03
Get matched

Vendors, events, neighborhoods, partner offers, and member experiences — all delivered against how you actually eat. The recommendations get sharper as the system reads how you respond.

Built inside New York's food ecosystem.

Taste ID is not a startup that landed in NYC. It is the personalization layer for a working operating system — events, media, and operator relationships that have been running for years and feeding the platform from the ground up.

/ Flagship Event
Harlem Summer Nights
7 Fridays · 125th St Viaduct · 50+ vendors · July to August
/ Flagship Event
Latin Food Fest
Annual single-weekend event · Sept · 5,000+ attendees
/ Flagship Event
Bronx Night Market
Seasonal · Fordham Plaza · 20+ vendors per market
/ Future Flagship
The Malt Yard
43K sq ft activation · July to NYE 2026 · 1,361 Amsterdam
/ Media Layer
New York Eats Here
Editorial authority · 30K+ newsletter · operator-side voice

Three ways to work with Taste ID.

Brands reach archetypes. Operators get matched to demand. Venues license the system. Pick the path that fits.

$25K+
Sponsored Archetype Package
Own an archetype across a season. Newsletter blocks, event activations, archetype-targeted email sends, on-site presence at HSN, BXNM, or LFF. Built to reach the right type, not the random scroll.
Brands
$75K+
White-Label Activation
We build a full Taste ID-powered brand activation. Don Julio Chaser Trail. A Russ & Daughters Purist Series. Real-world experiences, archetype-matched audience, production handled end to end.
Brands
License
Taste ID for Venues
Food halls, festivals, hotels, campuses, and mixed-use developments license the Taste ID system to personalize their own guest experience. Quiz, archetype matching, programming intelligence — your visitors, our infrastructure.
Venues
Trade
Operator Network
Restaurants, vendors, and food businesses get matched to the archetypes most likely to show up and return. No pay-to-play in the recommendation feed. Inclusion is earned by hospitality, not bought.
Operators

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Brands, operators, venues, press. Tell us what you're trying to accomplish. 48-hour response.

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