Recent Additions - San Francisco Bay

Here is a list of new San Francisco Bay Area restaurants to the GetQuik network.

Amici's East Coast Pizzeria - Mountain View

Amici's East Coast Pizzeria - San Jose

Asqew Grill - Haight Street - San Francisco (American, BBQ)

Asqew Grill - Laurel Village - San Francisco (American, BBQ)

Asqew Grill - Steiner Street - San Francisco (American, BBQ)

Best Taste Restaurant - Campbell (Chinese, Japanese, Sushi)

Boston Market - Santa Clara (American)

Fahrenheit Ultra Lounge - San Jose (Asian Fusion, Cafe, American)

Gourmet Express - Milpitas (Catering, Middle Eastern, Greek, Pasta)

High 5 Star Pizza - Menlo Park

Hyderabad House - Palo Alto (Middle Eastern, Indian, Curry)

King Chuan - San Carlos (Chinese)

La Salsa Fresh Mexican Grill - Hawyard (Mexican)

Looney's Smokehouse BBQ - Berkeley (BBQ, American, Catering, Breakfast)

Looney's Smokehouse BBQ - Oakland (BBQ, American, Catering, Breakfast)

Merit Vegan Restaurant - Sunnyvale (Vegan, Vegetarian)

Park Gyros - San Francisco (Greek, Turkish, Mediterranean)

Pasta Pomodoro - Milpitas (Italian)

Sinbad Restaurant Bar & Grill - San Mateo (Middle Eastern, Seafood, Sandwiches)

Sonoma Chicken Coop - Market Street - San Jose (American)

Subway - 1105 Veterans Blvd - Redwood City (Sandwiches, Salads)

Subway - 1926 El Camino - Redwood City (Sandwiches, Salads)

Subway - 708 Winslow St - Redwood City (Sandwiches, Salads)

Subway - 744 El Camino - San Carlos (Sandwiches, Salads)

Subway - 758 Woodside Road - Redwood City (Sandwiches, Salads)

Subway - 804 Bryant St - San Francisco (Sandwiches, Salads)

Suraj Restaurant - Milpitas (Indian)

The Original Front Room - San Francisco (Pizza, Pasta, American, Italian)

Don't see your favorite restaurant, email your request to sales@getquik.com. We'll do our best to get them added.

HOW TO: get more catering orders for your restaurant.

To get more catering orders we must first understand who our customers are.
They are office managers/ admins who need to order for the rest of the employees. Let's put ourselves in their shoes and try to figure what problems they may face and how to make it easier to order from you.

Problems:
1.Not sure what to order: The user is new to your restaurant and they are not familiar with your menu.

2.Not sure how much to order: They are ordering for ALOT of people. It will be hard if they do not know generous your servings are.

3.Budget.

Solution:
Quik Catering! That's what we call it at GetQuik but basically it's just a catering option for customers.

The whole idea of Quik catering is to come up with a PER PERSON MEAL OPTION.

So at $X per person the customer will get:
appetizer
entree
rice/naan/noodles/other staples
dessert
*add or remove category from the list above depending on your cuisine type and cost

tips:
1.Have multiple product options in each category e.g. for appetizer there's 5 types of appetizers to choose from. Same for entree, dessert etc.

2.Multiple price point to fit their budget e.g.
at $9 per person you get
1 appetizer 1 entree
but at $10 per person you get
1 appetizer 2 entree and dessert
it's always good to have around 3 pricing points.

3.You can charge extra if certain dish are more costly to make e.g. you can charge $1 extra if the customer chooses a salmon dish instead of a beef, pork or chicken dish.

Advantages:
1. A chance to showcase your popular products!
2.Customer enjoy variety!
3.Customer have enough food to go around!
4.Customer stays in budget!

In a nutshell, the customer will be able to order from you with much ease. And that's how you can get more catering orders for your restaurant.

Once you've come up with your Quik Catering option, just fax to 408.519.6716 or email to support@getquik.com! We will add it to your exisiting menu!

GetQuik Goes to Hollywood

As they say on AI, "we're going to Hollywood!"

Clean air, easy commutes, and the quiet life... uhmmm...

We have had Los Angeles in our sites for some time, and we are finally ready for the bright lights.

We are currently in the process of registering West Hollywoodish restaurants, and have gotten off to brisk start.

Here are the first SoCal restaurants:

88 Chinese & Sushi - Los Angeles

88 Chinese & Sushi - Sherman Oaks

Anarkali Indian Restaurant - Los Angeles

Best of Mediterranean - Hollywood - Los Angeles

Best of Mediterranean - Los Angeles

China Chef - Los Angeles

Crown of India - Los Angeles

East Indian Grill - Los Angeles

Mahalo Hawaiian BBQ - Los Angeles

New York Pizza - Laguna Hills

RoRo's Chicken - Hollywood

Star of India - Los Angeles

Many more to come in the next few months. Stay tuned.

Get Webified 2.

Now you've got your GetQuik website for your restaurant, what's next?

Well here's 10 ideas to promote the website so that you get the most out of your investment:

1. POS - If you have a POS (point of sales) system, just add "Order Online at (insert website URL).com" after the "Thank You" message in the receipt.

2.MENUS - Add "Order Online at (insert website URL).com" on your menus. This is effective for take-out menus in particular because some customers prefer to order online.

3.TAKE-OUT BOXES - Print "Order Online at (insert website URL).com" to your take-out boxes. *tip: you could use stickers instead if you do not print your own take-out boxes. This applies to plastic bags, utensil wrappers etc as well.

4.SIGNAGE - Display "Order Online at (insert website URL).com" at your POS register. You can include "Order Online at (insert website URL).com" on your window and main signages also.

5.NAME CARD - Add the website url to your name card. Web presence is healthy for your restaurant's image.

6.EMAIL - If you have a mailing list of your customers, let them know that they could order online!

7.YELP - Update your Yelp profiles to let your fans know that you now have your own website with order online capability.

8.MAPS - Update your Google Maps and Yahoo Local information with your own website URL. Makes it really easy for people to find you Google and Yahoo.

9.YELLOW PAGES - There's still people using this!

10.ADWORDS - Buy Google Adwords and link it to your website to reach an even greater audience.

Oh don't forget to tell your customers about the website yourself!

Most of these ideas are straightforward and DIY friendly but there are some which are more technical intensive e.g. Google Maps, Yahoo Local, Google Adwords etc. We would be more than glad to help you out in these areas if you have a GetQuik Restaurant Website with us. Just drop us an email at support@getquik.com

Recent Restaurant Additions - San Francisco Bay Area

Here's the list of new San Francisco Bay Area restaurants to the GetQuik network.

Benjarong Thai Cuisine - San Francisco

Capri Ristorante Pizza - San Francisco (Pizza, Italian)

Cesario's Find Food - San Francisco (Pasta, Italian, Breakfast)

El Sotano Restaurant - San Francisco (Mexican)

Fu Kee Chinese Restaurant - San Jose

Ginger Cafe - Sunnyvale (Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai)

Golden Kim Tar - San Francisco (Chinese)

Green Elephant Gourmet - Palo Alto (Chinese, Burmese)

Ken's Kitchen - San Francisco (Chinese)

La Nostra Pizza - San Jose (Pizza, Pasta, Salad)

Lucky Express - Grant Road - Mountain View (Chinese)

Lucky Express - Showers Drive - Mountain View (Chinese)

Mondo Cafe - San Francisco (Italian, Sandwiches)

New York Pizza - Hayward

New York Pizza - Palo Alto

New York Pizza - San Mateo

Osaka Japanese Restaurant - San Francisco

Palio Cafe - San Francisco

Persimmon Cafe - San Francisco (Middle Eastern, American, Cafe)

Piraate Pizzeria & Rotisserie - San Francisco

Rangoli India Restaurant - San Francisco

Roxanne's Cafe - San Francisco

Tao Yin - San Francisco (Chinese, Japanese, Sushi)

Yan's Garden - San Carlos (Chinese)

Don't see your favorite restaurant, send us an email with the restaurant name and address, and we'll see about getting them registered - support@getquik.com.

GetQuik Sticker 2009 - Want One?

Hello,
Peter has come up with a new GetQuik sticker. We will be distributing these to restaurants in the network, so you should start seeing some of these popping up shortly.

If you would like a sticker or two, email us at support@getquik.com and let us know where to send the sticker(s).

Cheers, GetQuik

Twitter Case Study - Midpoint Observations

The #Pizza2Stanford tweet project has been fantastically weak. It is pretty hard to give away a free pizza after all. As Peter observed, we do not have enough followers, and more importantly we do not have followers who are "key influencers".

So to date, we have had a GRAND TOTAL of 6 qualified tweeters after 5 weeks of the program. We are trying a few experiments to see if we can get some more tweets before we wrap up the program.

At this point, it seems that Twitter is a very short tail dominated network. Those with a strong follower base are able to have a major impact with a few tweets. Tweets transmitted from the long tail seem to be failing on deaf ears. If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it...

5 down, 5 to go.

Get Webified

GetQuik is pleased to announce an exclusive offer for restaurants participating in the GetQuik network. For a ONE-TIME cost of $100, we will provide the following:

• register and setup your domain name (i.e. hanamarujapanese.com),
• design a landing page using your corporate logos,
  
• optimize your page for Google search, and
  
• link to your GetQuik online menu.

For an example of what you can expect, check out http://www.hanamarujapanese.com.

As a GetQuik restaurant partner, we can subtract this $100 service fee against future orders processed through the GetQuik system.

Click Here to Setup Today!

Alternatively you could:

Email support@getquik.com or 888-789-QUIK (7845) and request your dedicated web-site today. Give us a week to get you live.

Thank you.

Baby Varshavsky - Now Live

On August 25th, a new Varshavsky was introduced. Varshavsky baby 2.0 is doing well and came into the world at a fighting weight of 8 pounds 3 oz.

Nathan so far has proven to have superior sleeping and eating features versus Varshavsky 1.0.

Since Irina is taking her digital leave, we felt it was our responsibility to post a few pics of the latest edition to the Varshavsky lineup. The pictures are circa one week from launch date.

Welcome aboard Nathan.

At the Stanford Vendor Fair

Peter and I spent the afternoon at the Stanford vendor fair. We were letting Residential Assistants and Residential Computing Consultants know about Pizza2Stanford.com.

We got to talk to more RCC's than RA's since the RCC's seemed to be required to attend this vendor fair.

We learned some interesting things at the vendor fair. Most of the RCC's and RA's we spoke are not on Twitter. We estimated that only around 10-20% of the folks we spoke with have a Twitter account.

It was a good event to promote the newly launched Pizza2Stanford site. For some reason, we were the one booth that was missing a sun umbrella, so we got pretty cooked. Thankfully it was shady for much of the event. The booth next to us was Stanford Housing Services. They had some interesting samples of bed bugs. Pretty gnarly.

Thanks to Jasmine, the event coordinator, for allowing us to participate. It was fun.