February 2012
2 posts
Franchise Update: “Online Ordering: The Point of... →
Real estate brokers and franchise consultants have repeated the phrase “location, location, location” for nearly 100 years. Last century, the phrase meant the corner of Main and Main, the well-anchored strip mall, the most affluent ZIP Code. This century, the definition of “location” is less distinct. Thanks to the Internet, the coveted address has moved from 1234 Main...
January 2012
5 posts
TechCrunch: "Online Ordering Provider OLO Hits 1M... →
OLO, a web and mobile online ordering service for restaurants, is celebrating a lot of things: bigger office space in New York’s South St. Seaport district, hitting the 1 million customer milestone, adding new restaurant partners, and plans to launch its long-awaited GrubHub integration, nearly a year in the making.
For those unfamiliar, OLO is a B2B(toC!) service that allows customers to order...
December 2011
1 post
AdWeek: “Facebook's Virtual Dinner Party Social... →
“On Facebook you can do it all: share, game, shop, listen, chat, stalk, and poke. Until now, however, you couldn’t eat. OLO provides online ordering integration to more than 150 national restaurant chains like Five Guys and Cold Stone Creamery. And, naturally, it’s just launched a Facebook app.
Now fans of, say, Bullritos, a Texas burrito chain with 15 locations, can order food...
November 2011
4 posts
Five Guys OLO App Named to “Best Mobile Retail... →
Congratulations to Five Guys, Solertium, and OLO for this achievement!
“Increase customer touch points and drive more sales”
“This was built on top of the Five Guys online ordering platform, which allows customers to place orders and pay online and have orders transmitted directly to the Radiant or MICROS point-of-sale system at the store,” said Noah Glass, founder/CEO of OLO Online Ordering, New...
QSR Magazine: "Customers Sure to ‘Like’ Bullritos... →
Bullritos is the first restaurant brand in the country to launch an online ordering application on Facebook that allows its 5,000 fans the ability to view and order from the restaurant’s full menu, repeat previous orders, pay securely using a credit card, and confirm time and date of pick-up - without leaving Facebook.
Watch a video demo of Facebook Ordering by OLO...
WatchFacebook Ordering Made Easy
Live from the Bullrito’s Facebook Page in Houston, TX, it’s the first live deployment of OLO’s latest creation: Facebook Ordering.
If your restaurant brand wants to allow Facebook fans to order and pay directly from its Facebook page (or related Facebook Places pages), this is the easiest way to get going.
And just like all OLO ordering methods...
OLO: Interview by Janet Forgrieve of SmartBlog on...
Noah Glass started OLO in 2005 after studying many of the ways technology was transforming customer interaction with banks, airlines and movie theaters. Since then, OLO has created online and mobile ordering systems for more than 150 chains, including Cold Stone Creamery, Five Guys Burgers and Fries, and Sonic. I spoke with him about how OLO works, trends in online ordering and what’s changed...
October 2011
4 posts
OLO.com: Over 150 Restaurant Brands Served
I am delighted to head into the final two months of 2011 while celebrating some amazing milestones:
150+ restaurant brands now choose OLO for mobile and online ordering
10x more customers use OLO than did 15 months ago
Six years ago, I quit a dream job and withdrew my admission to Harvard Business School to found OLO because I believed that trends in mobile, online, and social would soon come...
OLO is Hiring: Client & Customer Service...
Client & Customer Service Associates
OLO is seeking ambitious and dedicated Client & Customer Service Associates to join the OLO Client Services Team in New York City. If you have superb social skills, a detail-oriented personality, and strong computer skills you may very well be qualified. Ideal candidates are excited to work in a fast-paced, ever-changing and team-oriented...
WatchSSOI: Self Service Order Interface: A New ARTS Open Standard
We live in a self-service world. SSOI makes it easy for restaurants to implement self-service ordering with full integration into their point-of-sale (POS) platform.
Download the full presentation here: http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/GoMobo-1214277-self-service-order-interface-new-arts-open-standard/
Pro Tip: Open in...
September 2011
3 posts
Macworld Review: “Five Guys shines, Baja Fresh... →
OLO is honored to have such a positive review of the Five Guys iPhone app, built on the OLO API, from such an expert as Dan Frakes! Congratulations to Five Guys, Solertium, and OLO. OLO is eager to help more restaurant brands launch and operate five-star apps.
Download the iPhone/iPad app here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/five-guys-burgers-fries/id457494327?mt=8
Download the Android app here:...
August 2011
1 post
Five Guys iPhone, iPad, and Android apps!
What if the customer could Skip the Line®?
What if he never had to wait in a long queue, speak his order to a cashier, hand over his credit card, or stand around waiting for his food to be cooked?
Six years ago, this simple vision for better, faster service at busy restaurants inspired OLO.
Today, I am delighted to share the news that Five Guys Burgers & Fries has publicly...
July 2011
1 post
The OLO Insider Update - 3Q 2011
All -
It was incredibly gratifying to see the following results from major OLO clients this quarter:
25%+ of total transactions coming through OLO, including OLO orders placed on-premise for dine-in service
14% lift in same store sales, attributed directly to implementing OLO
I founded OLO six years ago with a simple promise: Online Ordering Made Easy™
Today, I am proud of what the OLO Team...
June 2011
2 posts
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WatchWatch Video: “Five Guys OLO Case Study - National Restaurant Show 2011” (86 minutes) When Five Guys Burgers and Fries launched its online ordering service in 2010, average order size increased 25% over call-in orders. Now the chain is adding advanced mobile ordering capabilities for ordering ahead. In this session Steve Teller, Project Manager, Five Guys, and Noah Glass, Founder &...
May 2011
10 posts
The Five Guys Case Study w/ OLO Online Ordering is...
OLO Online Ordering is at Booth 5730 = right next...
"Online Ordering: Tap the Internet" - Celebrity... →
Join OLO this Saturday for “Skip the Line: The Five Guys Case Study for Ordering Ahead” http://www.paperlesspost.com/p/5e50a24d66
The other week, I sat next to a restaurant operator on the third day of a marquis restaurant conference.
“What are you hearing so far?” I asked him.
“If I hear the term ‘social media’ one more time, I think my head will explode,” he shot back.
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OLO Lands Brett Morgan from PepsiCo Foodservice as... →
OLO Online Ordering (www.olo.com), the fastest-growing mobile and online ordering provider to the restaurant industry today announced the hire of Brett Morgan as Director of Sales.
Morgan has 27 years of foodservice sales expertise. He has been a sales leader at PepsiCo Foodservice for the past 24 years, most recently as Group Director for the West.
“OLO set out to find the best of the...
Five Guys Case Study Invite - NRA Show →
Formal invitation for “Skip the Line: The Five Guys Case Study for Ordering Ahead”
April 2011
5 posts
"Online Ordering: Don't Get Double-Crossed" -... →
Article originally appeared on Digital Brand Camp (http://dbrandcamp.squarespace.com/).
In the competition for a piece of the fast-growing $160 billion takeout market, online ordering can be a great benefit. A recent study by BIA/Kelsey found that 97% of customers used the Internet when researching local buying decisions. Online ordering lets restaurants “go where the customers are” at...
Nation's Restaurant News Coverage of BizMix 2011... →
What a great honor to sit on a panel with such incredible shining lights in the restaurant industry! Thank you very much to The Elliot Group, Total Food Service, PepsiCo Foodservice, and all of the sponsors who made BizMix 2011 possible. I hope that OLO and I are a part of BizMix for many years to come.
The OLO Insider Update - 2Q 2011
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The first quarter of 2011 was incredible for OLO.
I want to thank OLO’s Team, Investors, Board, Advisory Board, Partners, Clients, Users and all of you in OLO’s expanded network for contributing to OLO’s success and growth.
Above all, I have been honored to see the following results from OLO clients this quarter:
32% increase in average order size when customers switch from phone ordering...
GrubHub and OLO Team up to Create the Largest... →
OLO is honored to team up with GrubHub and give restaurant chains an easy way to join the #1 online ordering platform in the United States. Call OLO toll-free at 1 877 466 6260, email sales|at|olo.com, or simply get started at www.olo.com. And while you are at it, watch the new OLO video at www.olo.com/video
March 2011
4 posts
WatchOnline Ordering Made Easy
Learn about OLO in 63 seconds
February 2011
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January 2011
2 posts
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OLO is Hiring a Senior C# Developer -- Help Us...
Senior C# Developer
OLO is a fast-growing VC-funded software company specializing in online ordering systems for restaurant chains.
We pride ourselves in hiring only the best people and we score 11/12 in the Joel Test.
We’re looking for a talented C# software engineer to join our dynamic team and help us take our platform to the next level.
This position involves mostly back-end work and...
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OLO is Hiring a Systems Administrator -- Help Us...
System Administrator
OLO is a fast-growing VC-funded software company specializing in online ordering systems for restaurant chains.
We’re looking for a talented Windows System Administrator to join our dynamic team and help us take our platform to the next level.
Responsibilities:
* High Availability (looking after multiple web servers, hardware load balancing, database...
December 2010
6 posts
"GoMobo Becomes OLO" Center Networks 12.7.2010 →
"Say Hello to OLO: The New Leader in Online... →
"GoMobo Changes Name to Reflect Offerings" QSRWeb... →
Say Hello to OLO -- Insider Letter from 12.6.2010
I am delighted to share the news that we are changing our company name today.
When we started the company in 2005, our pure focus was to create a directory listing of restaurants where consumers could order ahead and get food on the go. The name “GoMobo” fit who we were back then. As we started to get lots of press, inbound inquiries from large restaurant groups started rolling in....