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TableUp promises to boost profits, improve operating efficiency, drive guest engagement and increase employee retention. Is the software solution biting off more than it can chew?
"We focused on enhancing every aspect of the front-of-house: wait list, reservation, and seating management, collecting guest information, employee retention, feedback, loyalty, marketing and branding,” says founder Matt Zibell.
Restaurants get their own native iPhone and Android app allowing guests to make reservations, connect via social media, leave feedback, earn points and view their balance, redeem rewards, view menus, order online and more.
In addition, TableUp is an early adopter of iBeacons, with a patent-pending process that immediately identifies a guest when they enter a restaurant and tracks them right to their table.
Restaurant technology company Siftit recently announced the rebranding of its purchasing tool, now called Orderly. Orderly promises to “help independent restaurants take control of their operations” by simplifying the process of ordering food from suppliers.
The product was officially launched in 2013 and so far there have been more than 26,000 orders through Orderly’s mobile platform. The company recently introduced a “Cost Control" app, an entry-level tool that allows restaurants to capture invoice data and create detail cost-tracking reports without updating cumbersome spreadsheets.
Remember when you could walk up to the host stand and slip them a $20 and immediately get seated at the best table in the house? Yeah, we don’t either.
But a new app called Resy allows new hot-spot restaurants (and old ones that remain packed day in and day out) the opportunity to upcharge guests for an immediate table. Eateries can profit by holding tables for anyone willing to shell out some extra cash. Eighty restaurants in New York and Los Angeles are participating with the app today. While peak reservations are based on demand pricing, prices can range from $2 to $50 per seat, and users can book tables as close to an hour before seating time for brunch and dinner.
Ever needed to hire a bunch of people in a relatively short time? If you have, you know how frustrating it can be. JobOn promises to ease those frustrations, launching an app that gives hospitality businesses with high employee turnover rates an easy way to screen dozens of applicants in less than 5 minutes via cell phone video.
The company says that, because online applications are difficult and time consuming to complete on today's mobile devices, employers are missing out on great applicants.
Here’s a kick-ass app that you’re not going to believe: Boston University School of Hospitality Administration has announced the launch of RevPASH: an app that calculates a restaurant´s revenue per available seat hour. The app is free and available to industry professionals, educators and hospitality students.
Revenue per available seat hour is a critical figure to help restaurant operators understand how efficiently and effectively each seat in a restaurant generates revenue. Once a food and beverage operator calculates the information, he or she can use it to identify opportunities to run top-line revenue. The app compares RevPASH over the course of hours, days, weeks and months, and helps operators to make data-driven decisions revolving expediting service delivery, changing price and applying marketing strategies.
