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Photos and Social Media

Social media offers an excellent opportunity to reach customers on an emotional level using photos. Here are three suggestions of photos you can post to...

Industry Grits its Teeth on Daily Deals

The restaurant industry continues its love-hate relationship with daily deals. There is even some research that the customers are not as bad as once thought, although...

Score Big with Secret Menu Items Online

Everyone likes to feel as if they are an insider, that they know things other folks don't know. This includes secret menu items at restaurants....

Takeout Can Be A Wiser Consumer Purchase

Takeout continues to grow as a percentage of takeout business for restaurants. No wonder when many popular meals are more expensive to make at home...

NetWaiter and the Impact of Online Ordering

NetWaiter regularly provides statistics regarding a variety of restaurant related topics, such as marketing, social media, customer trends, etc. More recently, we looked at specific...

Larger Tickets and New Markets

Jose Davila, manager of The Sub and Pizza of Amherst, located not far from the University of Massachusetts, setup a new marketing tool in 2012...

Getting the Most out of Facebook Posts

This may be a big shock, but studies reveal that only 4% of Facebook fans return to your page after visiting and liking it. This...

The LTO

A popular marketing vehicle used by restaurants is the limited time offer, or LTO. Typically, LTOs are special menu items or offerings made available for...

Exciting New Features from NetWaiter

Delivery Areas Coming soon, your restaurant will have the ability to customize more specific delivery zones. Within the NetWaiter Management Console, restaurants will be able...

Do You Know Influentials?

There is a book called The Influentials, based on the premise that “one American in ten tells the other nine how to vote, where to...

Online Ordering Success–Baggin’s Gourmet Sandwiches

Ask Sunny Bravin, treasurer of Baggin's Gourmet Sandwiches, about their biggest surprise since launching NetWaiter online ordering. The answer is one that would bring a...

Growing Your Business with Food Photography

According to AIS Media, as many as 89% of potential customers visit a restaurant's website as part of their decision-making process. If your website is...

It’s All in the Packaging

Several years ago, a trade magazine in the restaurant industry released a survey on the top five complaints from takeout customers. Included, were leaky containers. ...

Preparing for 2013

It’s not too late to set your sights on the New Year. It’s also the perfect opportunity to implement online ordering, or, if you’re already...

John Himelstein, Gingergrass

F"With 25% of our business take-out, we believe NetWaiter is an essential part of our business model. With phone orders, it's easy to make mistakes,...

Casie Caldwell, Greenz, salads for Z’adventurous

"After researching several options, including building our own online ordering system, we found that NetWaiter was the most economical and proven system on the market....

Jasmine Ali, Lovable Foods

NetWaiter has completely changed the way we do business. We’ve been able to maximize our productivity and streamline our operations. The low risk implementation and...

Jose Davila, The Sub and Pizza

"We are very pleased to have online ordering with NetWaiter at The Sub and Pizza. Our online orders have seen an increase of over 30%,...

Steve Osterholz, The Jackson Underground Cafe

It's been a little over a year since we started with NetWaiter at The Jackson Underground Cafe, and I just wanted to send you a...

Tips for the NetWaiter Management Console

A recent article from RunningRestaurants.com cited some interesting facts: Fact #1 - Most restaurant owners spend 90% of their marketing dollars in an effort to...

Using NetWaiter to Build Your Catering Business

There are many local businesses and offices - accounting agencies, real estate companies, non-profit groups, law firms, etc. - that bring in catered meals on...

Some Tips for Online Ordering

Don't overlook your wait staff as marketers. The best way to spread the message of your online ordering system is through your employees. Make sure...

Tools in Your NetWaiter Toolchest

This month, we wanted to highlight some NetWaiter tools available to restaurant owners. NetWaiter Broadcast Hub – About a year ago, we unveiled the NetWaiter Broadcast...

The Cindy Crawford School of Yelp

Remember the supermodel Cindy Crawford? Her motto was, "The camera never blinks." She realized she had to look stunning all the time. For restaurants, the...

Loyalty Programs Give You the Advantage

While the economy may be showing signs of vibrancy, consumers remain cautious. A recent article in PMQ Pizza Magazine, however, reports that loyalty programs can...

NetWaiter Expands with Another Facebook Integration

With the widely recognized importance of social media, NetWaiter recently introduced another Facebook integration, called the NetWaiter Ordering App for Facebook. With NetWaiter’s new Facebook...

Changing the Customer Experience

Part of running any successful business is making it easier for customers to purchase your product. It’s the same for restaurants. As Rob Hough, of...

Curry Up Now Launches Online Ordering in Food Trucks

Curry Up Now, a restaurant serving authentic Indian street food in the San Francisco bay area, is using NetWaiter to facilitate online ordering in three...

Points for Developing an Online Strategy

As you know, the "if you build it, they will come" strategy for marketing your restaurant is not the ideal way to maximize profits. There...

Thoughts on Social Media for Restaurants

Some helpful social media tips came out of a recent “Summer Brand Camp Conference” as reported by Nation's Restaurant News. Here they are, along with...

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