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iPhone 4- With its amazing new features can iPhone become an indispensible tool for your restaurant business?

Posted on June 9, 2010 by Nash Sherchan| 12 Comments

iPhone 4-is going to be available starting June 15th.With amazing new features it makes iPhone more powerful, easier to use and you can do pretty much everything from taking photos, recording videos and so many other things that can be helpful to your personal or business life. It is almost like a powerful computer in a compact tiny device that fits into your palm.

Some of the new features they talk about on the video are:

  • FaceTime
  • Retina Display
  • Multitasking
  • HD Video Recording & Editing
  • 5-Megapixel Camera with LED-Flash

FaceTime

I used to dream about video calling a decade ago. Finally it seems that iPhone 4 is making it a reality on mobile phones. I know for some restaurant owners especially during the initial years of business they leave their home early in the morning and come home night. They work so hard on making the business success that they don’t even get to see their kids. When they leave in the morning the kids are asleep and when they come home by night they are again asleep. After all they have to wake up for their school next morning. But no worries. Seems iPhone 4 will be able to help you in connecting with your kids face to face on video while  talking to them. With just a tap, you can wave hello to your kids, share a smile and feeling of love even from your office at your restaurant far away from home. By the way just want to inform you that it works only on Wi Fi and between iPhone 4 to iPhone 4. Still it’s a worth purchase that will connect to your loved ones may be help in  bridging your family relation with your kids and wife.

Multitasking

One of the critical skills required in restaurant business is Multitasking since it requires you to do millions of things at one time. (Well just kidding may be not million but at least multiple things. You know what I mean) iPhone 4 introduces cool feature that enables multitasking. Now you can run your favorite third-party apps — and switch between them instantly. Just talking about apps there are so many that you’ll have to jump from one to another while you are tackling your day to day task from restaurant operation to social media marketing. This Multitasking feature becomes very helpful and will make you productive. You will feel like super human who will be able to do so many tasks in so less time.

HD Video Recording & Editing

If you are a chef or even an owner of a restaurant, I think this new  HD Video Recording & Editing feature is kind of cool. You can shoot your own movies in high definition right in side your kitchen or restaurant. Even when you shoot your video inside the restaurant, it capture impressive video even in low-light settings, since it has the advanced backside illumination sensor and built-in LED light. Check this one out. This is cool. You can edit and create your own mini-masterpiece right on iPhone 4 using the new iMovie app that is  coming soon to the App Store for $4.99.

5-Megapixel Camera with LED-Flash

One of the other new improvements on iPhone 4 is the increase megapixel of 5 with Led-Flash. Now you can take beautiful, detailed photos of desserts, or delicious food, wine and any thing you can think of with the new 5-megapixel camera with built-in LED flash. Even when you are inside your restaurant the advanced backside illumination sensor will help capture great pictures even in low light. If you want to take pictures along with some of your customers the new front-facing camera makes it easy to take pictures with out cutting off your head.

Well these are few advantages to name few, but there are several benefits that is beyond this one single blog post. So I’d encourage you to buy it and use it and discover the benefits as you go by using the product to your advantage for personal life or restaurant business use.

Are you using iPhone right now for your restaurant? Do you use any iPhone apps on a regular basis to help you on your restaurant business? I’d appreciate if you could share some of your experiences or thoughts on how iPhone 3G/3GS has helped you in running your restaurant business efficiently. So now that iPhone 4 will be soon available what do you think about the new features? Do you think iPhone will become an indispensible tool for your restaurant business?

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Are you ready to add Online Ordering for your Restaurant? How about Mobile Ordering?

Posted on March 2, 2010 by Nash Sherchan| 8 Comments

Panda Express Launches Mobile, Online Ordering Test

Panda Express, the nation’s leader in Asian dining experiences with close to 1,300 restaurants, today announced the testing of Order Panda (www.orderpanda.com), a new mobile and online ordering service in 100 stores……………………….

Couple of days ago, I read the above head line about Panda Express that is testing the new mobile and online ordering in partnership with GoMobo. Here is the link if you want to read the entire press release.What this indicates to me is that restaurants are moving fast in adopting the technology to accomodate the demands of new generation tech savvy customers. These are the new breed of customers who never leave their phones alone and use it for everything possible that includes ordering their food too.

Now these big companies have big budgets and they can spend thousands and even millions if required to get these online and mobile order for their restaurant chain.

What about the small restaurants ? They don’t have millions at their disposal. So how do these small restaurants find a technology solution that does at least the online ordering  but without having to spend tons of money.

When I checked twitter profile for Foodler, I saw the twitter update about their iPhone app to be released by Feburuary. So I hope it should be available any time soon. I am guessing your restaurant might be able to use it for mobile ordering too.

I had done a research online and found one company that might be helpful to you. I thought of sharing with you. There might be others too. So if you know please do include it below the comment section for others to benefit. But I want to recommend one that I have tested and was quite satisfied with their service. The name of the company is Foodler and you can check out their website at  www.foodler.com

So What is Foodler?

Foodler is a website for ordering delivery and takeout from restaurants around you. It  is more reliable and faster than using a phone, since all orders are transmitted and confirmed electronically and the system automatically  remembers your address and payment preferences.

The first thing that I like about this service is that you don’t have to pay huge amount of money. It’s like pay as you go. Once you sign up your restaurant with the company they will include your menu on their system ready for online order. If you have your own website they can link it to your site. If you don’t have your own site then you can use their site to facilitate the online order for your customers.

There is no monthly fee. You pay only when there is online order made by your customers. That is a safe proposition for you because if there is no online order made during that week then you don’t pay. This is good especially when you are just starting.

So just give it a try and see for your self if it helps you to stream line the ordering process during the busy lunch or dinner hours.

Have you used foodler.com for your restaurant to process online ordering. If you have please share  your experience with us by commenting below that might be helpful to other restaurants. If you haven’t then experiment with this online ordering service and share your experience and results. Would love to hear your thoughts on Foodler.

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