- May 30th, 2013
Client profile: Ace Wasabi’s secret for success
For us at ChowNow, there’s little else we like more than hearing that one of our clients’ businesses is thriving, or as we like to say “killing it.” Recently we…
- February 26th, 2013
- Marketing
- Online Ordering System
- Restaurant Tech
15 Restaurant Website Development Best Practices
This article was originally published on The Huffington Post A website is a website is a website, except when it’s a restaurant’s website. There’s something extra tricky about restaurant website development…
- January 8th, 2013
Feeding off of Facebook
As mobile and social technologies evolve, consumers are exploring new ways to find and compare local restaurants. Social search is taking on an increasingly important role in local discovery. People tend to trust the recommendations of friends, family and others in their circle and if those connections are on social platforms, that’s where they will go to find local eats. Companies are making it easier for people to tap into that knowledge, by gathering valuable information that’s circulating in the social world.
- December 14th, 2012
- Social Media
How Restaurants are Engaging the Mobile Foodie
As see on The Huffington Post See this graph? It might not look like much, but it’s proof. Proof of what? Proof that a social media strategy, if done right,…
- December 10th, 2012
Facebook ordering: Could it be easier? We think not.
Stupid simple. That’s how we like to think about our Facebook ordering platform here at ChowNow. But, we also love a “how to” guide as much as the next guy, which is why we’d like to present this handy little guide on Facebook ordering.
- November 24th, 2012
How to Use Instagram’s Food Ordering Tool to Help Your Restaurant’s Sales
“Pass the mashed potatoes please, wait, hold that pose and smile!” That’s what millions of Instagram users across the United States were saying during Thanksgiving dinner. That’s since this year the holiday marked Instagram’s busiest day ever with 10 million Thanksgiving-related words according to this Forbes article among many others.
- November 16th, 2012
What happened to home cooked holidays? More than 30 million eating out or take out this Thanksgiving.
That’s right, 30 million people ate out or got takeout for Thanksgiving last year. And, the National Restaurant Association projects those numbers to increase for this year.
To break those numbers down a bit further, 14 million Americans are expected to dine out while the other 16 million will either take out full meals or buy components a la carte according to this Time article.
- November 14th, 2012
Amazon now sells wine, but do the little guys already do it better?
Launched yesterday, Amazon.com now sells wine. Sourced from wineries from across the U.S., inventory is currently at about 1,000 different wines available only to residents of specific states.
But, Wine.com, a seasoned online warehouse, isn’t just sitting back. Instead, the 12-year-old website launched a new “marketplace,” offering rare or hard to find labels to help compete against Amazon’s giant launch. But selling wine is about where the two marketplaces’ similarities end.
- November 12th, 2012
Virtual stores: because people don’t want to shop, but still feel like they’re shopping
Virtual stores are starting to crop up nearly everywhere—or at least everywhere that sees hoards of busy people who don’t like or don’t have time for grocery shopping. Ironically enough…
- November 10th, 2012
Yelp is the latest on the online photo menu train.
Announced yesterday, Yelp’s restaurant profiles now add user-generated photos into menus, next to a description of the dish and the price. The new technology boost is a huge update over…
