Oh, the idea is great, I use the site frequently. I just found the all-javascript referrer-based linking scheme and the percent-encoded html in input values to be a WTF. Or is this the norm for sites these days?
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YNot Advertising creates websites offering easy ordering from restaurants in college towns. I just visited my local site (lionmenus.com) to order some pizza and found that they'd redesigned since my last visit. I also found that none of the links on the front page worked, resulting in a nice ASP.NET traceback. Since not even the "contact us" link worked, I emailed the WHOIS contact for the domain who promptly emailed back and seemed surprised since apparently this was not the case for him. I then realized that I'd disabled referrers in Firefox - re-enable them and boom (goes the dynamite), everything works.
So all the links on their site are javascript, and require referrers. Nice. I can't even open stuff in tabs to compare menus. The source of the front page is amusing... like large chunks of percent encoded html stuffed inside input tag values. This seems like possibly not the best design. But hey, I'm not a web developer.
Plus the site is brand new and page loads are pretty slow. Granted, the old version wasn't exceptionally fast either.