Industry News
Thursday, March 15th, 2012
You have your online menu set up, but how are you going to get those orders sent to your restaurant so you can actually make them? MenuDrive gives its customers a variety of different options when it comes to receiving orders. There are four ways by which a restaurant can have orders delivered to them [...]
Tags: POS integration, POS system
Posted in Customer Service, digital menu, Industry News, iPad, New Restaurant Technology, New Technology, Online Food Ordering, Restaurant Industry News, Restaurant Industry Trends, Smart Phones, touch screen ordering, Trends | No Comments »
Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
It’s a safe bet to assume you have seen the Domino’s commercials and heard about Starbucks adding mobile ordering apps to their businesses to try and increase sales. They have taken notice that about 72-83% of “early adopters” order from restaurant apps weekly. While Domino’s and Starbucks have made this process seem easy, choosing to [...]
Posted in Customer Service, digital menu, Industry News, iPad, New Restaurant Technology, New Technology, Online Food Ordering, Restaurant Industry Trends, Smart Phones, Social Media Marketing, touch screen ordering, Trends, Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
How many times have you walked into Starbucks with 5 minutes until you have to be at work only to see the line wrapped halfway around the store? Wouldn’t it have been so much easier if you could have ordered your coffee before you left your house, picked it up, and been on your way? [...]
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Friday, January 27th, 2012
When you walk down the street most of the time all you see is the tops of people’s heads coming towards you. Why? Most of them are too engrossed in their iPods or cellphones to even bother to look up. They are sharing pictures, articles, opinions; just about anything that can be transferred over the [...]
Posted in Branding, Facebook, Industry News, iPad, Marketing Tips, Mobile Marketing, New Technology, Restaurant Industry Trends, Smart Phones, Social Media Marketing, Trends | No Comments »
Thursday, December 8th, 2011
Online ordering has become a better alternative to ordering take-out and making fast casual food services more convenient. Customers have been searching for a program as fast and accurate as mobile ordering, and now that companies offer this service it has been widely adapted and utilized. For the beginning restaurants that decide to use online [...]
Posted in Branding, Customer Service, Facebook, Industry News, Marketing Tips, Mobile Marketing, New Restaurant Technology, Online Food Ordering, Social Media Marketing | 1 Comment »
Monday, October 10th, 2011
The importance of social media marketing in foodservice has sky rocketed, reaching new heights out in the web galaxy. Don Fox places the social media universe on a spectrum; “one end being the forum that it provides for meaningful communication with current and prospective customers, and the other being the use of the social media [...]
Tags: Social Media Marketing
Posted in Facebook, Industry News, Social Media Marketing | 2 Comments »
Friday, October 7th, 2011
Everyone knows this Nation Football League season almost became a led zeppelin. In knowing that, Buffalo Wild Wings started a petition called “Save Our Season” for their Facebook fans. Their key interest in lobbying to end the NFL season lock-out significantly gathered social networking traffic, and gained interest from their audience by targeting what their [...]
Tags: NFL, Promotions
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