Social networking sites for restaurants create spaces for insiders to connect

Borrowing a page from the playbooks of such popular dot-coms as My Space and Facebook, vertically oriented online social networks have come to the restaurant and foodservice industry.

At least two Internet sites that have been launched lately seek to connect cooks, servers, managers, owners, vendors and curious foodies in virtual communities.

Similar to broad-based social networks, the new foodservice portals, Bite-Club