by James Eling | Nov 30, 2015 | Uncategorised
A recent article examining the Zomato business model in the Financial Times questions whether Zomato has gone rotten. It quotes an internal email that describes how they have grown to be in 22 countries across the world, having launched organically in 15 of them and...
by Marketing 4 Restaurants | Sep 23, 2015 | Uncategorised
BRW has an interesting article with the history of Dimmi and online bookings in Australia. It is entitled Dimmi vs Goliaths – how the restaurant booking app held out for the best offer. The article raises a number of questions. Live Bookings evidently...
by Marketing 4 Restaurants | Sep 9, 2015 | Dimmi, Open Table, Respak, Uncategorised
The WSJ is reporting that table management software and BookaRestaurant.com company, AS Digital has been purchased by Pricline Group owned OpenTable. Open Table, which employed CEO Lisa Hasen in January this year, has yet to start operation in Australia which is...
by James Eling | Aug 25, 2015 | Uncategorised
The Restaurant Aggregators are the companies which collect up the details of Restaurants and provide an online service for them, be it Online Bookings, like Dimmi / Tripadvisor, or online ordering like Zomato Order, Just Eat, Fod Panda, Eat 24 and Grub Hub. Gopal...
by Marketing 4 Restaurants | Jun 5, 2015 | Uncategorised
In life sometimes an opportunity presents itself by chance that you have to take advantage of, which is certainly the case for the Ross Village Bakery in Tasmania. Located in the unspoilt historic town of Ross, the Bakery has operated on site for more than 100 years,...
by Marketing 4 Restaurants | Jun 5, 2015 | Uncategorised
Phineas T. Barnum, the 19th century American showman and circus owner once said ‘there’s no such thing as bad publicity,’ or as Oscar Wilde once expressed ‘the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.’ And Mike Duffy, owner of Wellington’s...