Free Pasadena and Monrovia Phone App Finds Open Restaurants

Be Local Strong app (Photo – Graphics Dept. ©ColoradoBlvd.net)

On June 1, 2020, a free mobile application for restaurants was unveiled to the community. Be Local Strong lists Pasadena restaurants that are open for business.

By News Desk

There are no charges to restaurants to be listed and no cost to for users to download the app. The application is a collaboration between Small World Communication and the Pasadena Chamber of Commerce. The app can be accessed online at belocalstrong.com. There is a QR code to download the app to your phone or you can do it using the web browser on your mobile phone.

Paul Little, president and CEO of the Pasadena Chamber of Commerce, said:

I am very grateful that Rob McLinton and Small World Communications approached me with the idea for a web-based mobile application to support local businesses during the current health and economic crisis. Rob and his company were very generous to put the app together at no cost to either the restaurants or the users and provide a simple to use guide to who’s open and what’s on the menu. All free for the business and the user.

The Be Local Strong initiative of Small World Communications also created a Monrovia Be Strong Local application.

Businesses that want to be listed on the sites can go to: belocalstrong.com/home/submit-your-listing/ and put in their information. Right now, the app only lists restaurants, but retail and service businesses will be added soon. The app is available to any retail or service business in the greater Pasadena area. Membership in the Pasadena Chamber of Commerce is not required to be listed.

“Rob and I really saw this as a service that we could provide to the local business community and our residents,” said Mr. Little. “Every opportunity for businesses to reach potential customers at no cost to them is very worthwhile.”

The rose logo used for the Pasadena application was created by Oksana Latysheva of the Noun Project. The Monrovia application has a bear logo. Lamley Media created the original application for Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Source: Pasadena Chamber of Commerce