HealthyDiningFinder
Supporting the First Lady's wellness initiative with a national restaurant health database.
HealthyDiningFinder is a national platform that helps consumers find restaurant menu items meeting specific nutritional criteria — supporting the Let’s Move initiative championed by First Lady Michelle Obama. fourmangos worked on the Kentico-based platform during a critical growth phase.
The Challenge
Where they started.
The platform was managing a growing database of restaurant nutritional data across thousands of locations, with partnership integrations connecting to NIH programmes and healthcare provider networks.
Scale and reliability were the primary engineering challenges — the platform needed to handle traffic spikes driven by national media coverage without performance degradation.
The Approach
What we built.
fourmangos contributed to the Kentico platform architecture, focusing on database performance, partner API integration, and the nutritional filtering engine that powers consumer-facing search.
The NIH partnership integration required careful data mapping between HealthyDiningFinder’s nutritional taxonomy and federal health programme criteria.
Performance optimisation work addressed bursty traffic patterns driven by media coverage — requiring caching strategy and infrastructure right-sizing.
The Outcome
HealthyDiningFinder continued serving millions of health-conscious diners annually, with NIH and Let’s Move partnership integrations operating reliably at scale.
The platform’s role in supporting a nationally recognised wellness initiative demonstrated that technology built carefully — with attention to data integrity and performance — can support public health goals at meaningful scale.