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Congrats to OLO partner GrubHub on the Seamless merger announcement! Restaurant chains can get onboard with OLO. #SkipTheLine

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:34:39 -0400

Congrats to OLO partner GrubHub on the Seamless merger announcement! Restaurant chains can get onboard with OLO. #SkipTheLine:

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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 of a definitive agreement to merge two of the nation’s premier services for ordering takeout. The merger will create a combined company well positioned to drive more orders to restaurants, deliver a better experience for hungry diners and enhance services to corporate clients.

The combined organization will enable diners and companies in more than 500 cities across the U.S. to order from more than 20,000 local takeout restaurants. In 2012, the online and mobile platforms of the two organizations sent approximately $875 million in gross food sales to local takeout restaurants, resulting in combined revenue well in excess of $100 million.

“We are excited to combine the strengths of these two dynamic organizations in an industry that is rapidly gaining traction. We believe the merger will enhance the products we are able to offer both our diners and restaurants,” said Matt Maloney, GrubHub co-founder and CEO. “GrubHub and Seamless share a common goal to generate more business for local takeout restaurants while providing the best possible service to diners. By combining our complementary restaurant and diner networks, we are well positioned for continued growth in a massive market.”

“By bringing together some of the industry’s most celebrated products, including Seamless’s award-winning iPad app and GrubHub’s innovative Track Your Grub, we will be able to drive more value to all company stakeholders,” said Jonathan Zabusky, CEO of Seamless. “Both companies also share a strong commitment to provide world-class service to restaurants, diners and corporate clients. This merger is an opportunity to glean the best from each platform and improve upon what we bring to all of our partners.”

Key strategic benefits of the merger include:

Broader network and product offerings. The expansive network and diversified products and services of the combined organization will strengthen the company’s ability to serve restaurants and diners across the U.S. and U.K.
Accelerated innovation. The anticipated pooling of the combined organization’s research and technology will help to streamline product development and better address the evolving needs of this dynamic industry.
Enhanced financial flexibility and strength. The merger will allow the company to pursue growth opportunities while continuing to invest in its current business.

Matt Maloney will serve as chief executive officer of the new organization, and Jonathan Zabusky will serve as president. GrubHub and Seamless shareholders will both have significant representation on the combined company’s Board of Directors. Brian McAndrews, an independent director on the Seamless board prior to this transaction, will serve as chairman of the new, combined board. The merger is subject to regulatory approval.

The combined company’s management team is expected to draw upon the experienced group of leaders from both companies. As well, the combined organization’s name and marketing brands are expected to be determined following regulatory approval.

Latham & Watkins LLP acted as legal counsel to Seamless. Citi served as financial advisor and Goodwin Procter acted as legal counsel to GrubHub.

About GrubHub
GrubHub is a leading online and mobile food-ordering service that shows diners local restaurants available for delivery or pick up. Available in more than 500 cities across the nation, GrubHub features more than 20,000 online ordering restaurants and, as the parent company of Allmenus, lists approximately 250,000 restaurant menus. Diners who order through GrubHub’s free website or mobile apps can pay with cash, credit or PayPal™, and every order is supported by GrubHub’s 24/7 customer service. Founded in 2004, GrubHub is a privately held company headquartered in Chicago.

About Seamless
Seamless is a leading mobile and online service for ordering delivery and takeout food from more than 12,000 restaurants in the U.S. and UK. Seamless serves diners and many of the world’s largest companies across cities including New York, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Houston, Austin, Seattle, Portland, Miami, London and other major U.S. cities. The company offers mobile applications for iPad®, iPhone®, Android™, and BlackBerry® and owns MenuPages®, a comprehensive mobile and web provider of up-to-date menu content.

SOURCE GrubHub; Seamless

For further information: Abby Hunt, ahunt@grubhub.com, 773.250.0501, or Jocelyn Heyward, jheyward@seamless.com, 646.527.7504

CorFire, OLO Partner on mobile commerce solution

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:01:00 -0400

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 benefits of mobile commerce, said OLO Founder and CEO Noah Glass. From more efficient and accurate ordering and payment transactions and the ability to distribute promotional and loyalty driving offers, to social sharing and mobile gift cards sales, these applications will enable the chains to improve service delivery, reduce labor costs and increase customer engagement. Chains, Glass said, will now have access to a deep level of customer purchase and behavioral data from which to make more informed business decisions.

“This partnership creates synergy between two of the leading mobile commerce companies to offer a full suite of services: mobile ordering, mobile local offers, mobile payment, mobile gifting, mobile loyalty, and mobile social check-ins,” Glass said. “Instead of requiring separate mobile apps for mobile payment and mobile ordering, this integration will provide brands with a one-stop shop for all forms of mobile customer engagement through the industry’s proven, best-of-breed providers.”

Restaurant chains are constantly seeking new ways to improve speed of service, increase average ticket size, reduce transactional costs, and build loyalty thru more sophisticated customer engagements, said Sang Yook, chief strategy officer, CorFire.

“By combining their technologies, OLO and CorFire are making the promise of mobile commerce a reality for QSRs,” Yook said.

OLO partners featured in Fast Casual’s Top 35 Restaurant...

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 10:40:23 -0500

OLO partners featured in Fast Casual’s Top 35 Restaurant Apps! PayPal, Groupon, CitySearch, UrbanSpoon, and GrubHub!

OLO Secures Additional $5M in Series B Funding

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:46:20 -0500

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 existing investors, David Frankel, RRE Ventures, and Core Capital Partners. The company had previously raised $8.75 million in outside funding. Exactly a year ago today, as it turns out, the company announced reaching the milestone of 1 million customers, and now that number is nearly 2.25 million, according to CEO Noah Glass.

“We started in June 2005, so it took us six and a half years to go from zero to a million users,” Glass says. “It’s incredible in less than 12 months we’ve gone from 1 million to 2 million, but it’s indicative that the market is really heating up and customers are excited about ordering from their mobile devices,” he explains.

That trend has PayPal excited, too. The company has been expanding its payments platform into the offline world in recent months. Also a year ago, PayPal made its first foray into in-store payments through a pilot program with Home Depot which saw its technology integrated into Home Depot’s point-of-sale systems. That program expanded in spring 2012, when PayPal added 15 more brick-and-mortar retail chains, and by the end of the year, it had signed up 23 national retailers and had gone live in some 18,000 stores across the U.S. It also established a partnership with point-of-sale hardware manufacturer NCR just this month, too.

But with PayPal’s strategic investment into OLO, it now has the capability to expand into yet another offline vertical: dining.

This includes both sit-down restaurants and quick-serve restaurants, as OLO counts both among its partners, which, combined, is now around 3,000 individual restaurants. This year, however, that number is about to explode. Glass tells us that OLO has four large quick-serve chains in various stages of closing deals with his company, each with over 5,000 locations domestically, and combined, totaling 27,000 units across the U.S.

“Our pipeline is crazy. We’re looking at a year where we could very easily multiply that [3,000] by five or 10,” he says. “With these very big chains, we have the potential of just massive scale.”

These new, larger QSR partners will have another effect on OLO’s business as well – no, not profitability; OLO hit that milestone mid-2012. Instead, the QSRs will help push OLO even further into mobile than before, and help establish it as a major player in the customer loyalty and rewards space, too. Glass explains that’s because online ordering doesn’t make sense for quick-serve chains, but mobile does.

2012 was already a big year for mobile adoption at OLO, he adds. For example, Five Guys Burgers, which has just over 1,000 stores here in the U.S., saw its OLO-powered mobile app downloaded over 625,000 times. Starbucks-owned bakery La Boulange also debuted an OLO-backed mobile app during the year. “Mobile used to be 10 percent of our total order volume,” says Glass, “and now, for hundreds of the restaurants we work with, it’s more than 50 percent of the order volume.”

On mobile, OLO’s restaurant partners will soon be able to better target customers with offers, discounts, and rewards that can be even more personalized than those from loyalty card startups which track transactions alone. Because OLO is an end-to-end ordering solution, it can know not just when, how often and what a customer buys, but it can also help identify their favorite dishes and preferred menu customizations, as well. For example, Glass explains, if a customer always adds bacon to their burger, the restaurant could set up a promotion that would tell them about the new BLT when the customer was within a five-mile radius and offer them a coupon to try it.

As for PayPal’s involvement, obviously OLO will now be adding it as a payment option that its restaurants can choose to integrate, alongside credit, debit, gift cards, and, more recently, Google Wallet. But, as noted above, PayPal’s investment speaks to more than just another partnership – it’s about changing the way customers think about its brand in the offline world.

“Since June 2005, I thought that mobile commerce was a huge and compelling idea, but for it to really gain mainstream adoption, we had to find the right application for it. It had to be an everyday use case. It had to be high frequency to really change user behavior,” says Glass. “PayPal’s thinking is about being an online-plus-mobile account…it’s become clear to me that the thinking with PayPal is incredibly aligned,” he says.

Glass couldn’t disclose the portion of the new investment that was PayPal’s, but did confirm that the investment didn’t involve any new board members. The funding will be used to expand OLO’s current team of a dozen to 20, if possible – mainly engineers.

Read the full article here.

And please email me at noah|at|olo.com if you would like to learn how OLO’s online and mobile ordering platform could help your restaurant brand increase same store sales and grow market share.

My best,

Noah

OLO is hiring!

Noah's latest byline on Mobile Payments in QSRWeb/FastCasual

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 11:21:51 -0500

Noah's latest byline on Mobile Payments in QSRWeb/FastCasual

OLO: "Way Beyond the Wallet"

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:13:40 -0400

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 world experiences. This is the personal ID that you want to carry with you because the conveniences and value-adds are demonstrable.

The app platform achieves its next level of promise when it reverses the polarity on its roots as a media distribution screen. It doesn’t just receive data, but casts it off to change the environment — customize it to our needs. When the apps start acting on the world — informing experiences, even changing experiences — then they become truly indispensable and intimate tools of everyday life. Wanting your phone to become a credit card? Small potatoes compared to what it really can do.

OLO: Four More OLO Clients Go Mobile. Five Guys App Hits 500,000 Downloads

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:50:00 -0400

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 smartphones to both (1) search for restaurants and (2) make purchases.

OLO is leading the way with top-rated apps for mobile ordering. Our intuitive apps let customers send prepaid, just-on-time orders directly to the back of the house for production via the restaurant point-of-sale. As Five Guys’ award-winning mobile apps have now achieved 500,000 downloads, I am proud to announce that OLO has released four new mobile ordering apps for La Boulange, Boloco, Bullritos, and MOOYAH – all available as native apps for iPhone, Android, and iPad.

In August, I had the opportunity to contribute a byline to FastCasual.com in which I discuss the rise of the digital consumer and make the case for mobile ordering and mobile payment. Restaurant CEOs have come to understand that, “mobile is it.”

And while mobile ordering moves to the forefront, the past months have seen amazing innovation in mobile payment as well – see the recent Square and Starbucks partnership announcement and PayPal’s announcement with 15 national retailers. To that end, I am excited to announce that OLO is now an official platform partner of Google Wallet. Look out for many more great things to come in the months ahead!

Here are some of the places I will be over the coming weeks:

September 30-October 2 MUFSO Super Show: Where Foodservice Leaders Meet – Dallas, TX

October 10 Boston Beer Company Epcot Food and Wine 2012 - Orlando, FL

November 12-14 Restaurant Finance & Development Conference 2012 – Las Vegas, NV

I would love to hear your feedback and schedule time to discuss how your restaurant brand could grow sales with mobile ordering in 2013!

Digital Dinner in Beverly Hills, CA - August 28, 2012

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 13:58:00 -0400

Noah Glass (OLO Founder & CEO) and Michelle Guzman (In-N-Out Director of Marketing)

Carey Carrington (Macaroni Grill CFO), Noah Glass (OLO Founder & CEO), and Greg Dollarhyde (Veggie Grill CEO)

Mike Mirkil (Habit Burger VP Marketing), Noah Glass (OLO Founder & CEO), and Peter Burt (Habit Burger VP Operations)

David Goldstein (Sharky’s Woodfired Grill COO), Noah Glass (OLO Founder & CEO), and Scott Nicholson (Veggie Grill VP Operations Administration)

Leon Davoyan (Veggie Grill Director IT), Noah Glass (OLO Founder & CEO), Tony DiCenzo (Pinkberry SVP IT), and Andrey Zeynalyan (Pinkberry Manager IS Store Systems)

Sameer Mungur (Zipscene Founder & CEO), MaryLynn Workman (Fishbowl National Sales Director), Chris Mason (Paytronix Enterprise Sales), Noah Glass, Matt d’Arbeloff (Paytronix Head o

Digital Dinner in Beverly Hills, CA - August 28, 2012

From FastCasual.com “Wayne Gretzky and the Digital...

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 22:52:34 -0400

From FastCasual.com

“Wayne Gretzky and the Digital Consumer”

In addition to his goal-scoring prowess and fancy stick-work, hockey legend Wayne Gretzky is famous for saying, “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.”

It’s great advice for scoring goals – and for doing business. Gretzky was called “The Great One” for a reason; few of his rivals were able to follow his advice. As business people, we often find ourselves in the same position: Staring at the puck as it flies by, instead of having skated to where it will be.

Applying Gretzky’s concept to our industry’s efforts to engage with their customers, restaurant operators must start to skate in the direction of digital technology – and fast!

Read on at: http://bit.ly/PE24c3

OLO.com: "Ordering Engine" for the Restaurant Industry

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:07:00 -0400

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 right from Facebook without ever leaving Facebook
OLO Received “Best Mobile Retail Apps of 2011” recognition by Mobile Commerce Daily for the Five Guys app powered by OLO and Solertium. The app has now surpassed 400,000 downloads
OLO Zoomed Past 1 Million Users in early January, growing 10x in a 16-month period
OLO Went International one day later, with the launch of OLO in Canada
OLO Announced an Open Standard for POS Integration at the National Retail Federation Show in mid January. Learn about the Self-Service Order Interface (SSOI)
OLO and Groupon Teamed Up for a new “Online Ordering Groupon” at SONIC with amazing results: 3x average order size, 6x order volume
OLO was Featured in TechCrunch, announcing newly signed deals, staggering growth, and OLO’s newly launched partnership with GrubHub

Beyond these headlines, I was deeply honored by what Zerrick Pearson, Sr. Director of IT at Five Guys Enterprises, wrote about OLO in a recent LinkedIn recommendation:

“The services that Noah Glass and his team at OLO provide are simply the best in the industry. Astonishing flexibility and a powerful ordering engine, combined with ease of use and excellent support, has made OLO critical in helping Five Guys provide the best online ordering experience for our customers.” - Zerrick Pearson, Five Guys Enterprises

What struck me most was the term “ordering engine” and what it meant about how far OLO has come from the early days of bringing text-message ordering to market in late 2005. OLO is now truly a multi-channel ordering engine, driving phone sales, online sales, and mobile sales for an industry yearning to sell beyond the four walls. And this is just the beginning.

Q2 Upcoming Events

I will be living on the road for the coming weeks. Here are some of the places I will be:

April 22-25 | Dallas, TX

Women’s Foodservice Forum Conference in Dallas

Learn more: http://annual.womensfoodserviceforum.com/

May 2-4 | Chicago, IL

Marketing Executives Group

Learn more: http://www.restaurant.org/education/studygroups/meg/meeting/index.cfm

May 5-8 | Chicago, IL

National Restaurant Show

Learn more: http://www.restaurant.org/show/index.cfm

I hope to see you during my travels.

Quick Serve Leader Interview with OLO Online Ordering Founder...

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 09:44:00 -0400

Quick Serve Leader Interview with OLO Online Ordering Founder & CEO Noah Glass

A soccer mom packs her four kids into the van after practice. Looking for a quick meal to reward the gang for their sportsmanship, she contemplates the various take-out options on the way home. With Italian on her mind, she settles on a family plate of lasagna at the nearest fast casual shop.

With the command “Order Lasagna, Louis’, Main Street, two bottles of soda, two packs of breadsticks, total. Pay with card,” her van sends the order to a digital hub that accesses her user profile, payment information; and with the location of the car via GPS, calculates the time it will take for her to pick up her order; and notifies the restaurant of her ETA.

Sound far-fetched? Not so much. According to the Quick Serve Leader interview with Noah Glass, founder and CEO of New York-based OLO Online Ordering, technology like this is already under development consideration using aspects of the API framework ─ the same tools that it is already providing to quick serve chains across the country, currently helping them offer the convenience of online and mobile ordering with deal site Groupon and Facebook, and maybe even cars – yes, cars – by year’s end.

While we exaggerate in the above QSL scenario, restaurateurs can see the possibilities….

Read the interview here: http://quickserveleader.com/article/exec-qa-olo-ceo-noah-glass-talks-digital-hub-and-mobile-social-online-ordering-restaurants

QSR Magazine interviews OLO about the SONIC OLO Groupon

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:34:26 -0500

QSR Magazine interviews OLO about the SONIC OLO Groupon

How to use a Groupon and credit card with OLO at SONIC

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 09:58:32 -0500

How to use a Groupon and credit card with OLO at SONIC

How to use a Groupon with OLO at SONIC

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 09:57:38 -0500

How to use a Groupon with OLO at SONIC

QSRWeb: “OLO launches Groupon online ordering deals with...

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:00:37 -0500

QSRWeb: “OLO launches Groupon online ordering deals with Sonic”

Participating Sonic restaurants in the Phoenix market and OLO Online Ordering have launched a new offer through coupon site Groupon.

The drive-in burger chain will leverage Groupon to offer customers a deep discount on all orders made through Sonic’s mobile and online ordering site – the first ever restaurant Groupon exclusively for online orders, according to a press release.

Noah Glass, founder of OLO, said there was an opportunity for this platform in the quick-service segment, which has been slower to adopt Groupon as a marketing strategy.

“By taking the transaction online, restaurants can simplify deal redemption and gain valuable customer details so the brand can track customer retention,” he said.

Franchise Update: “Online Ordering: The Point of Sale Has Left the Building”

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:02:57 -0500

Franchise Update: “Online Ordering: The Point of Sale Has Left the Building”:

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 Street to “.com.”

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Read on at: http://www.franchising.com/articles/online_ordering_the_point_of_sale_has_left_the_building.html

ARTS Unveils First-Ever Standard Interface For Improved...

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:48:52 -0500

ARTS Unveils First-Ever Standard Interface For Improved Self-Service Ordering

“Retail is rapidly becoming mobile through online sales and ordering,” said Noah Glass, CEO of OLO and chairman of ARTS’ SSOI work team. “Implementing a standard interface reduces the cost of entry for restaurants and retailers and yields powerful new capabilities for both customers and merchants. The result is better, faster, more personalized service.”

Read the full press release at: http://www.nrf.com/modules.php?name=News&op=viewlive&sp_id=1297

TechCrunch: "Online Ordering Provider OLO Hits 1M Customers, Prepares To Launch GrubHub Integration"

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:46:16 -0500

TechCrunch: "Online Ordering Provider OLO Hits 1M Customers, Prepares To Launch GrubHub Integration":

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 ahead and pay online or on mobile (where available) for takeout and delivery at local restaurants. Customers input their order which is then sent directly to the business’s POS system, with OLO snagging a percentage of the transaction fee along the way.

OLO currently powers the online ordering systems for several big-name chains, including Subway (its NYC locations), Five Guys Burgers & Fries, Cold Stone Creamery and SONIC, for example.

It has also just signed an ice cream chain (hint: makers of the delicious ice cream cakes), a U.S. barbecue chain, San Francisco bakery La Boulange, Fatburger, and the South African-based Nando’s, which operates stores in the Washington D.C. area. This year, OLO will begin to power the overseas Nando’s locations, including those in the U.K. and Australia, too. The company also plans to expand into Latin America and Canada in 2012.

In March of last year, OLO announced a partnership with online ordering provider GrubHub, which, until then, had been focused only on independent restaurants, not chains. The partnership makes OLO the exclusive provider of restaurant chain ordering to GrubHub. Going forward, OLO will provide both restaurant and menuing information to GrubHub for its partner restaurants, allowing GrubHub customers to place orders and make payments via GrubHub for the OLO-powered chains.

Those integrations are now just a couple of weeks away from launching, starting with OLO-powered restaurants in the NY and Chicago areas. By the end of March, all of OLO’s restaurants will be live on GrubHub.

In addition to powering the ordering systems of major chains, OLO also runs GoMobo, a B2C service that lets customers order online or via text. But the company shifted its focus from B2C in December 2010, when it acquired the OLO.com domain name. “The name change was symbolic of the shift from being a B2C company…to being the backend technology for big brands,” says CEO Noah Glass.

For restaurants, signing up for OLO brings hundreds of new customers. “For every new door that we open, a restaurant will get 250 new customers joining the service,” Glass says. When brands launch on mobile (OLO provides white label apps, too), they see even more signups – around 400 to 500 new customers, Glass estimates.

Although OLO is doing well now, it’s early days for the up-and-coming company which saw 10x growth over the past 16 months, and now counts over 150 restaurant brands and thousands of individual restaurant stores as partners. “There are 600,000 restaurants in the U.S. that we think would work well for the service – it feels like there are many more brands for us to sign,” Glass says of the company’s plans for growth.

“More and more customers are looking for self-service experiences – not just in food, but in banks, airlines, and online shopping – we’re taking one of the lowest tech industries and bringing that self-service capability to the restaurant experience.”

OLO received $7 million in additional funding from RRE, Founder Collective, and Core Capital in 2008, bringing its total funding to date to $8.75 million. Glass says they’re not looking to raise additional capital now.

OLO Online Ordering Founder & CEO to Announce Open Standard...

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:20:41 -0500

OLO Online Ordering Founder & CEO to Announce Open Standard for Restaurant POS Integration at Retail’s Big Show 2012: National Retail Federation’s 101^st Annual Convention & Expo

This Sunday, January 15, 2012, OLO Founder & CEO Noah Glass will announce the completion of the Self Service Order Interface (SSOI) – a new ARTS open standard for POS integration – at Retail’s Big Show 2012: National Retail Federation’s 101^st Annual Convention & Expo in a speech entitled “Making Life Better for Consumers.” The work team that created SSOI includes representatives from OLO, ARTS, Heartland Payment Systems, Yum! Brands, HMS Host, Five Guys Enterprises, PAR, EPICOR, EPSON, NAFEM, RSPA, and CISCO.

“Retail is rapidly becoming mobile through online ordering and payment,” said Glass chairman of ARTS’ SSOI work team. “Implementing a standard interface reduces the cost of entry for restaurants and retailers and yields powerful new capabilities for both customers and merchants. The result is better, faster, more personalized service for consumers.”

OLO is International Yesterday, OLO announced 1 million users in...

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:17:55 -0500

OLO is International

Yesterday, OLO announced 1 million users in all 50 states.

Today, OLO announces the expansion of Five Guys Online Ordering into Canada.

Pretty cool, eh?