It’s clear that the COVID-19 pandemic has been devastating for restaurants. Industry sales fell by 26.7% compared to their prior year period between February and March, and by a jaw-dropping…
As the restaurant industry continues to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, regulations and recommendations keep changing. Since March of this year, countless restaurateurs have had to immediately close their dining…
- April 16th, 2020
- Restaurant Tech
How to Use Instagram’s Food Ordering Tool to Help Your Restaurant’s Sales
With the immense stress that the COVID-19 pandemic has put on the restaurant industry, many businesses and communities have been quick to offer new solutions to help ease the pain.…
- April 15th, 2020
- How to
- Restaurant Tech
Strategies for Restaurateurs to Adapt, Cope, and Evolve During the COVID-19 Crisis
The past few weeks have been disastrous for the restaurant industry. With COVID-19 prompting a mass shutdown of public life, independent restaurants across the US have seen a rapid decrease…
- March 25th, 2020
- Restaurant Tech
Introducing ChowNow’s Free Loyalty Program for Restaurants: Loyal Local
With the COVID-19 pandemic causing so many restaurants to close their dining rooms, lay off staff, and shut down all together, there’s a new urgency to ChowNow’s mission of helping…
- February 11th, 2020
- Restaurant Tech
Why Prices on Grubhub Just Skyrocketed
If you’ve taken a look at Grubhub’s app lately, you may have noticed an immense amount of new restaurants available for online ordering. After all, the delivery giant more than…
- January 17th, 2020
- Client Story
- Restaurant Tech
Opening up a restaurant? Don’t miss this essential ingredient.
Opening a new restaurant is an enormous undertaking. Whether it’s your very first concept or your twentieth, restaurant startup costs and logistics can be overwhelming (to say the least). As…
- December 30th, 2019
- Client Spotlight
- How to
Menu Optimization: 3 Real-Life Restaurant Success Stories
Here on the ChowNow blog, we’ve been talking a lot about the importance of digital menus and tactics for menu optimization lately. A well-designed digital menu makes a huge difference…
- November 13th, 2019
- How to
- Online Ordering System
- Restaurant Tech
Grow Restaurant Holiday Sales & Get Ready for the New Year With Online Ordering
It’s no secret that the holidays are a hectic time for many restaurants. Saturdays in December are statistically the busiest days for all types of independent restaurants across the country,…
- November 11th, 2019
- Restaurant Tech
Waitr’s Recent Struggles Expose the Instability of Commission-Based Delivery Apps
Waitr is one of the many third-party delivery marketplaces that’s been in the news lately for less than flattering reasons. The Lake Charles, Louisiana-based online ordering and delivery app saw…