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.

Adding Place Settings

Hello GQ customers,

We have noticed that many customers are adding notes specifying the number of place settings required for a delivery order. It's hard to eat pasta without a fork. Rather than guessing whether a customer needs place settings for an orders, we have incorporated a checkout option so customers can specify the number of place settings for an order.

Upon reaching the checkout summary page, you will see a field below the "NOTE" field and above the "NOTIFICATION EMAIL" field. You can select the number of place settings (usually in the form of napkins, plastic utensils and paper plates) you need for your meal. For the majority of our restaurant partners, these place settings come free of charge. If there is a charge for the place settings, you will the corresponding price listed.

If you don't need the place settings, then you leave the place settings at "0". The restaurant will appreciate the cost savings, and we can save a few trees.

LiveChat Experiment

Besides working at GetQuik, Qishan is an Internet powerseller. Qishan has experimented with a few different LiveChat services, and he likes Zopim the best.

We are trying it out for GetQuik. Qishan is taking charge of the service, but the rest of the GetQuik folks should be helping service the LiveChat feature shortly. We hope that GetQuik customers will find LiveChat a useful communication tool.

We realize having a LiveChat that is oftens times off-line may be frustrating, so we are still in an evaluation stage for the service. We will be adding some quick links, updating FAQ's, and posting GetQuik tips in our blog in order that we can quickly pass links via LiveChat for the more common questions and customer service requests.

If you have comments on our LiveChat, drop us a line at support@getquik.com.

Cheers.

Recent Restaurant Additions to GetQuik

Here are the recent additions to the GetQuik network.

Amici's East Coast Pizzeria: Cupertino

Bangkok 101: Dublin

Bombay Indian Restaurant: San Francisco

Curry Leaves: Foster City

Curry Leaves: Pleasanton

El Grullense Grill: Redwood City

Estrellita Mexican Restaurant: Los Altos

Hometown Noodle: Redwood City

iChaat Cafe: Sunnyvale

India Gate: Santa Clara

Isfahan-Kabab & Beryani: San Jose

Izzy's Brooklyn Bagels: Palo Alto

Jake's of Saratoga: Saratoga

Jake's of Sunnyvale: Sunnyvale

Jake's of Willow Glen: San Jose

Mexico Lindo Restaurant: Union City

Pacific Buffet: Fremont

Sannidi Indian Cuisine: Pleasanton

Sendo Sushi - Lunch Menu: Pleasanton

Sendo Sushi - Dinner Menu: Pleasanton

Shiva's Indian Restaurant - Mountain View

Sugandh Indian Cuisine - Pleasanton

The Boardwalk - Los Altos

The Garret: Campbell

The Oasis: Menlo Park

If you wish to request a restaurant, you can email sales@getquik.com or enter your request online.