Online ordering
The Death of ‘Can You Hold Please?’: How AI Phone Ordering Is Saving Restaurants $47,000 Annually
Reading Time: 9 minutes At 7:30 PM on a busy Friday night, Maria’s Italian Kitchen had three servers running between tables, two cooks working the line, and a manager trying to handle the front of house. Then the phone started ringing. And ringing. And ringing. “Can you hold please?” became the restaurant’s unofficial greeting as…
Read MoreThe Hidden Costs of Third-Party Delivery: What Restaurant Owners Really Pay (And How to Calculate Your True ROI)
Reading Time: 8 minutes The average restaurant owner thinks they understand the cost of third-party delivery platforms like DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub. They see the commission rates—typically 15-30%—and assume that’s the full picture. But industry data reveals a startling truth: the actual cost of third-party delivery can exceed 40% of your revenue when you…
Read MoreHow to Tell Customers About Online Ordering
Your digital ordering platform is all set up, integrated with your POS system, and ready to take orders and direct them straight into your kitchen! You might know that it exists, after all you’ve had the idea and have been researching options for how to take…
Read MoreHow to Set Up Online Ordering for a Restaurant
As the boundaries between the physical and the digital blur, brick-and-mortar businesses are finding that setting up an online presence for their venue is crucial to their future success. For restaurants in particular this trend was accelerated by the…
Read MoreWhy We Built an Online Ordering Solution for Restaurants
After years of existence, online ordering for restaurants is still a rapidly evolving segment of the restaurant industry. It provides convenience for customers (who now expect restaurants to offer online ordering), an additional and upward trending revenue stream…
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