How Restaurants Can Use Pre-Orders for Lunch
to Attract Busy People
Busy people understand the ‘Time is money’ concept very well. They have a lot of things to do and they make every moment count. Restaurants can win the love of busy people by eliminating the time wasted on waiting for table, food, and check.
How many of you have served lunches immediately after your guests arrive to your restaurant? If you haven’t, you should look into it because a lot of busy diners — entrepreneurs, app developers, and other career-oriented folks — would love to have that experience.
Surveys show that guests expect restaurants to use more technology and Allset is the newest such service. It’s a reservation app — available on iPhone and Android — that lets guests book tables and pre-order lunches at participating restaurants. What’s unique about Allset is its hybrid “table booking” + “food pre-ordering” approach. Usually restaurants use separate services to accept table reservations and food orders. Allset put two technologies in one app.
Attract busy people
For people living such busy lives, having nourishing lunches at restaurants takes too much time. Slow ordering from menu, food preparation (the biggest pain point), and having to wait for the check are to blame for service delays.
Allset lets restaurants serve their guests real fast by bypassing ordering, food preparation, and checkout altogether. With pre-orders for lunch, restaurants can offer busy people the fastest shortcut to their nourishing meals.
Ordering ahead is a great experience that can make any busy diner happy: you come to a restaurant, your table is ready, your meal served in a snap, you simply eat, say thank you and leave. Behind the scenes, Allset sends your order to a restaurant, so that your table and food are ready when you arrive, and charges your payment card, so you can simply walk out after you eat.
If busy people had an app like Allset at their favorite restaurant so that they can book tables and order meals ahead, they would definitely visit the place more often. Everyone would enjoy going out for a lunch if they can skip waiting at restaurants and go straight to eating.
Increase lunch sales
Eating lunch is a natural part of workday. More and more people are taking their lunches in front of their laptops, but many others still reject this idea. There is nothing better and healthier that a nourishing meal on a plate at restaurant.
Restaurants can expectedly sell more lunches by offering a new time-saving service to people who value their time (entrepreneurs and career-oriented folks) and those who are willing to try out the latest apps (tech geeks and millennials).
Pre-orders for lunch help increase table turnover. With orders and payments settled in advance, restaurants know what to prepare. When busy people arrive, they can dine and leave with no overstay while restaurants can maintain the flow and serve more tables.
Start taking pre-orders for lunch
Setting up with Allset is free and requires no hardware. Restaurants are provided with web dashboard where they can create public profile, connect bank account, and add menu items. To accept pre-orders for lunch in real time, employees can download iPhone or Android app on their phones with no needs for tablets.
Allset can be operated side-by-side with other dining apps.
Allset uses Stripe to process all transactions. Payments are made directly to the restaurant.
The pricing is fixed — restaurants only pay $1 per order. The first month is free. It’s a great deal for any business that wishes to attract guests without spending much.
Allset is currently open for restaurant registration. There are only few spots left to get on board before the official launch. The early adopters will have an opportunity to be mentioned in major media and receive free online promotion.
