ChowNow raises $3 million to give restaurants quick, easy online and mobile tools
ChowNow gives restaurants streamlined mobile-and-online-ordering templates and marketing consulting services.
Yelp’s stock tanks after Facebook’s Graph Search debut
January 15, 2013 11:44 AM
Sean Ludwig
Yelp's stock price dropped an alarming 8 percent following the announcement of Facebook's Graph Search.
Watch out, Square: PayPal and NCR team up for mobile payments in a big way
January 14, 2013 9:41 PM
Devindra Hardawar
Two of Square's biggest competitors are joining forces.
With 4.5M diners seated in 9 months, NoshList adds premium version to better manage guests
November 16, 2012 9:00 AM
Sean Ludwig
Restaurant waitlisting app NoshList has launched a new premium version that includes table number assignment, unlimited texting between a restaurant and diners, analytics, and more.
Foodivide takes the hassle out of settling restaurant tabs
July 27, 2012 11:07 AM
Rebecca Grant
Dining out with friends is usually a pleasant experience — until the check comes. A startup called Foodivide just released a mobile app that makes it easier to settle restaurant tabs by providing bill-splitting tools.
Let’s say four people partook …
New app for wait staff & diners takes restaurants into the future
April 18, 2012 12:48 PM
Jolie O'Dell
Imagine a soup-to-nuts app that would let you find a good restaurant nearby, make a reservation, order, and pay all in a few clicks and swipes — and imagine the restauranteurs in your area have the same level of sophistication …
Seamless brings super simple food ordering to the iPad
February 28, 2012 7:00 AM
Sean Ludwig
Online food-ordering company Seamless has brought its ordering and menus to the iPad today — a move that hungry couch potatoes will likely applaud.
Seamless currently competes with smaller-but-still-potent startup GrubHub for online delivery and pickup order supremacy. Seamless’ last …
BuzzTable aims to revolutionize how restaurants connect to customers
September 23, 2011 8:36 AM
Devindra Hardawar
Restaurants spend a lot of time and energy attracting new customers, but a startup called BuzzTable says it’s far cheaper to bring back existing customers more often.
The New York City-based startup has built a mobile customer relationship management (CRM) …
Yelp CEO: IPO window is still open, Yelp on track
September 13, 2011 2:25 PM
Matthew Lynley
Despite recent market turmoil and questions about public market stability, the window for new initial public offerings has not closed — and local discovery site Yelp is still on track for its IPO — Yelp chief executive officer Jeremy Stoppelman …
Tabbedout raises $3.7M to simplify bar and restaurant payments
ATX Innovation, the startup behind mobile payments application Tabbedout, has secured $3.7 million to make bar and restaurant payments much simpler.
Using the free TabbedOut application for the iPhone and Android, users open a tab when they’re visiting a supported restaurant …
Are E La Carte’s restaurant tablets better than waiters?
Tired of dealing with flaky waiters and other charming quirks from a night of dining out? E La Carte, a startup launching today, may have a solution to your restaurant woes with its iPad-like tablets.
Instead of waiting to be …
Kudzu, maker of apps to order takeout, raises $7M
Kudzu, which makes apps that let people order food from anywhere, raised $7 million in a second round of funding led by Norwest Venture Partners.
The company is the maker of Snapfinger, a location-based app that lets users find nearby …
