May 2013
5 posts
What the Grubhub/Seamless Merger Means For Online... →
How to grow online sales: What the GrubHub/Seamless merger means
Tags: Online / Mobile / Social, Systems / Technology
May 24, 2013 - Noah Glass
As the National Restaurant Show lumbered into its third day, GrubHub and Seamless, two leading online ordering providers for independent restaurants, awakened the industry with a major announcement — a merger that would form the nation’s largest...
Noodles & Company files for $75 million IPO!... →
Noodles & Company files for $75M IPO
Noodles & Company on Thursday became the first in the restaurant space to publicly file for an initial public offering this year. With an IPO that was long expected, the Broomfield, Colo.-based fast-casual chain is seeking to raise up to $75 million with the goal of repaying debt and growing nationally. With 339 restaurants in 25 states, Noodles &...
A look into what's to come from OLO and Corfire's... →
Mobile commerce to be integrated into restaurant offerings
Jesse Collins Mobile Commerce
Olo and Corfire will be jointly creating smartphone friendly applications in a new partnership.
CorFire, a mobile commerce technology company in the United States, has just entered into a new partnership with Olo in order to create a digital shopping engine for restaurants.
This new contract brings...
Congrats to OLO partner GrubHub on the Seamless... →
MediaRoom
Seamless and GrubHub Announce Merger
Combined Networks, Services and Products Will Drive Additional Restaurant and Diner Value
Enhanced Financial Strength Will Allow Organization to Better Scale in Rapidly Growing Food-Ordering Industry
May 20, 2013 9:09am
CHICAGO and NEW YORK, May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Seamless North America LLC and GrubHubInc. today announced the signing...
CorFire, OLO Partner on mobile commerce solution →
CorFire, a provider of mobile commerce technology, is partnering with OLO, a digital commerce engine for restaurants, to create mobile applications that allow restaurants to move beyond mobile and online ordering and into more sophisticated mobile commerce functionality, according to a company press release.
As a result leading multi-unit chains will now be able to take advantage of all the...
February 2013
1 post
January 2013
2 posts
OLO Secures Additional $5M in Series B Funding
It was an exciting day for OLO last Friday, getting featured in TechCrunch again. Check out the story below. Also, OLO is hiring!
OLO, An Online And Mobile Ordering Platform For Restaurants, Grabs $5 Million In New Funding From PayPal & Others
OLO, the New York-based online and mobile ordering platform for restaurants, has raised a $5 million Series B round of funding from PayPal and...
Noah's latest byline on Mobile Payments in... →
October 2012
1 post
OLO: "Way Beyond the Wallet" →
We were deeply honored by this OLO review from Steve Smith of MediaPost last week.
This is the very essence of OLO/our raison d’etre:
In some ways, Glass is envisioning yet another place where the mobile device becomes the personalization agent that gets applied in different situations. Way beyond the idea of a wallet, this turns the phone into an ID that customizes any number of physical...
September 2012
1 post
OLO: Four More OLO Clients Go Mobile. Five Guys...
A Letter from OLO Founder & CEO, Noah Glass
Over seven years ago, I founded OLO with the vision that customers would soon be walking around with commerce-ready smartphones in their pockets and that busy restaurants would be perfect places to order and pay ahead to skip the line. Today, 55% of mobile phones in the US are smartphones and 50% of smartphone users are actively using their...
August 2012
2 posts
April 2012
2 posts
OLO.com: "Ordering Engine" for the Restaurant...
I feel incredibly fortunate to work with the OLO team every day to bring self-service ordering capabilities to the restaurant industry, improving the customer experience and generating incremental sales for OLO clients.
Since my last update less than six months ago, OLO has continued to thrive:
OLO Launched Facebook Ordering in November of last year - allowing customers to order and pay securely...
March 2012
3 posts
QSR Magazine interviews OLO about the SONIC OLO... →
WatchHow to use a Groupon and credit card with OLO at SONIC
WatchHow to use a Groupon with OLO at SONIC
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.
...
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”
