RESTAURANT INDUSTRY NEWS
FORBS – the free Guestful Alternative
We've had a number of customers moving across to us from Guestful over the last month and this week we've learned that Guestful, the Free Wordpress addin to take Restaurant Bookings has closed down and is no longer supported. Guestful had a strong market base with...
ACCC launches investigation in Menulog Eat Now Merger
The Fin Review is reporting that the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will investigate the merger between Menulog Eat Now as to whether it led to a substantial reduction of competition in online ordering. "It will be looking to...
Our Free Online Restaurant Booking Software enters the United States
The team are very excited to announce our first customer using Free Online Restaurant Booking Software. The software, which has been in use in Australia and New Zealand, has taken over 300,000 seats of bookings. It provides a view of the bookings for each day like a...
Is Priceline / OpenTable about to acquire Tripadvisor?
Skift is reporting that Priceline, the owner of OpenTable, may be looking to acquire TripAdvisor. Dennis Schall writes that Priceline has talked about it's unappreciated competitive moat, and an acquisition of TripAdvisor would make a big statement and widen the moat...
Menulog alternative – FROLO sees revenue increase of 39% month on month
March has seen the largest growth in revenue for the free Menulog alternative, the Free Restaurant OnLine Ordering system (FROLO). The order value increased 39% month on month adjusted for the longer month in March. More restaurants have been signing on and...
Menulog data breach – What does it mean for your Restaurant?
The Age is running a story today about Menulog potentially breaching the privacy of over 1.1 million customers. A screen shot shows an internal Menulog portal which Restaurants have access to. The data breach contained names, email addresses and addresses. This is a...