New Technology

Increasing Mobile Payments

What is the best way to be connected with customers all the time? Well that is easy: mobile devices.  While it is easy to connect with customers over mobile devices, it is much harder to get them to purchase products through it. 25% of smartphone owners say that they have purchased something on their mobile [...]

Tags: ,

Posted in Mobile Marketing, New Technology, Restaurant Industry Trends, Smart Phones, Trends | 1 Comment »

Restaurants Can Use HTML 5 For Mobile

Restaurants have heard the buzz about mobile devices. In 2011, 31.8 percent of handsets that were sold were smartphones and there were 234 million people age 13 and up who owned a mobile device in the United States. But what is new is not the devices themselves, but how people are viewing online webpages with [...]

Tags: ,

Posted in digital menu, New Technology, Online Food Ordering, Restaurant Industry Trends | No Comments »

How Google+ Can Help Restaurants With SEO

It can be assumed that restaurants have heard the buzz about Google+, but do you even know the benefits or how to start one? Google+ was a little bit of a mystery at its beginning in 2011, but now it has become something of importance in the business community. The benefits and opportunities that are [...]

Tags:

Posted in google, New Restaurant Technology, New Technology | No Comments »

Receiving Online Orders from MenuDrive

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: ,

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 »

Choosing a POS System for Restaurants

Deciding on a POS system for a restaurant is a big commitment.  There are hundreds of different systems out on the market that restaurants can use and this can make it difficult to decide which one is best for their business.  Certain steps should be taken to ensure that a restaurant will be getting the [...]

Tags:

Posted in Customer Service, digital menu, New Restaurant Technology, New Technology, Online Food Ordering, Restaurant Industry News, Restaurant Industry Trends, Smart Phones, touch screen ordering, Trends | No Comments »

Group Ordering Helps Restaurants Satisfy Customers

As a previous employee of the foodservice industry, I know the dread of seeing a huge group of customers ready to come in and order all at once.  Mistakes are always made and it is very stressful for the employees to try and make all the customers happy.  Online ordering has resolved some of these [...]

Tags:

Posted in Customer Service, digital menu, Mobile Marketing, New Technology, Online Food Ordering, Restaurant Industry Trends, Smart Phones, Trends, Uncategorized | No Comments »

Creating A Mobile Ordering App

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 »

Mobile Ordering and Your Restaurant

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? [...]

Posted in Customer Service, digital menu, Industry News, New Restaurant Technology, New Technology, Online Food Ordering, Restaurant Industry Trends, Smart Phones, Trends | No Comments »

Mobile is making an Impact

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 »

Steps to Make Social Media Work for You

            If there is one marketing tool that will be heard about again this year, it will be social media. Connection to these sites allows businesses to have almost 24 hour access to their customers and what’s even better is that it’s free advertising. When was the last time Facebook [...]

Posted in Branding, Company Update, Facebook, Facebook Business Page, google, Marketing Tips, Mobile Marketing, New Technology, Restaurant Industry News, Smart Phones, Social Media Marketing | No Comments »