1. How often do you eat out?
2. How do you typically find food carts in Portland?
3. What do you think about the Portland food scene?
4. How do you learn about local chefs and their restaurants in Portland?
5. What is most important to you when dining out or getting takeout?
6. How often do you explore new food carts around Portland?
7. Describe what a unique dining experience means to you.
8. Tell me about your most recent dining experience at a food cart.
9. What is your ideal dining experience?
10. Do you prefer to eat indoors or outdoors?
11. Do you prefer dining at a restaurant or eating at a food cart and why?
12. What do you like about food carts?
13. What do you enjoy or not enjoy about exploring the food cart scene in Portland?
14. What do you like about yelp?
15. What do you dislike about yelp?

Interview Plan

Finding out what appeals or what doesn’t appeal to local Portland food connoisseurs like Rene is an integral part of creating an app that will be useful and memorable. What draws food enthusiasts to a particular location along with the reasons they avoid an establishment are essential to the line of questioning during the interviews, and this will hopefully prevent potential head shakes down the road when users try out the new app.