OrderEm for Food Trucks

Tell the world where you are and what you’re serving – Every day! Update your location, menu, and hours in real-time. Give your customers easy-to-follow turn-by-turn directions right to your truck. Let your fans place (and share) orders right from your Facebook page.

Keep connected with OrderEm. Link to your blog and social media feeds. Post your upcoming schedule of events, hours, and locations. You can even send out push notifications with your free custom app to let people know you’re in the area.

Features

Turn-by-turn directions deliver customers straight to your truck, wherever you decide to set up shop. Change your location and directions update automatically.

Real-time updates for all your pertinent info. Hours, menus, calendars, specials – all up to date and available to customers as soon as you make a change.

Super social media. Your customers want everything in one place – put it all (your blog, Twitter, Facebook, etc.) in your free custom app. And don’t stop at like – Let your fans spread the love when they order directly through your Facebook page, then share the order with their friends.

Manage your orders from any smartphone with the OrderEm app – get notifications, view full order details and history, even update the expected completion time, all free.

Tools

Set up shop in the App Store and on Google Play – Build a free app customized to match your brand. Accept online orders, post blog updates, and send out push notifications so your customers are always in the loop.

Put your restaurant online with a free custom website, or add online ordering to your current website for free. Use your page to keep your customers engaged with current menus, specials, photos, and more. Connect your blog and social media.

Share the Like. Let your customers order right from your Facebook page, using the same system they’ll love on your website and app. And when they’re done there, they can post their order to their entire network of friends, bringing your brand to new customers.

Marketing

Do you know how search engines find all those great sites? We do, and we’ll use that to help you. All of the pages we design feature Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to help bring your restaurant to the top of the search results. Get ready to get discovered.

Want more exposure for your app or website? We can help you prepare customized marketing tools to get the word out to potential customers. Whether you just want a download link added to your paper menu or something bigger, we can get you started.

The MunchEm Marketplace is a great way to get discovered, and when you sign up, you’ll be listed there for free. Be seen when hungry customers search for places to eat nearby.

If this sounds amazing to you, check out our plans here!

Coming Soon on MunchEm: Food Trucks

Ed loves food trucks!

Love MunchEm, but do you wish we also listed food trucks on our app? Not to worry, we’ve been thinking the same thing. Orlando is home to over 100 food trucks and two amazing food truck events: Tasty Tuesdays and the Food Truck Bazaar. If you’ve been to either event, you know how amazing food trucks are and how long lines can be. We want to make it easier for you to order from them by giving you the option to order from them online.

We believe that food trucks are as amazing as restaurants. In fact, one of our certified restaurant partners, Patacon Con Todo, used to be a food truck. What’s your favorite food truck? Let us know! There aren’t nearly enough food trucks with online ordering and we are working to bring your favorites to you.

Check back soon for updates!

Restaurant Spotlight: Pammie’s Sammies

Meet Pammie’s Sammies, a quirky and delicious casual cafe that has successfully conquered a common challenge for many amazing local restaurants: being found. In Orlando, it’s easier to find a chain than it is to find your favorite hole-in-the-wall (speaking from personal experience here).

Pammie’s Sammies’ specialty: Delicious, earth friendly, thoughtfully sourced and tastefully adventurous food. Especially sandwiches.

Pammie’s Sammies is located on 5907 Turkey Lake Road, Suite 100 Orlando, Florida 32819, behind the Promenade Office Plaza near Universal Studios. For those of you who are Team Members at Universal Orlando, it’s right next to Team Member Parking.

Here’s what Pammie’s Sammies’ owner Pam Thomas and Director of Yum Blair Thomas  had to say about our services:

Pammie’s Sammies Restaurant Spotlight:

MunchEm: What has been a challenge for you?

Pam: Well, you know our location has been a challenge because we’re a little off the beaten path. It’s become a bit of a joke, like “you can’t see us from the street so stop looking” or “it’s like an Easter Egg hunt”. It’s a long thing: Do you know where Dr. Phillips High School is? Yeah. Well ok, we’re not there. Go across the street from Dr. Phillips High School, do you know where the Hess Station is? Yes. Ok, we’re getting there. And then they still can’t find us.

MunchEm: Has MunchEm helped with this?

Blair: Yes, they have. MunchEm showing our address on the app , people’s ability to search for restaurants based on location on the app and having Pammie’s Sammies show up in their results has helped a lot.

MunchEm: How was your initial experience with MunchEm?

Blair: It was awesome!  The team at MunchEm has been arms wide open with us and helping us/getting us going with customers, not just around us but in outlying areas as well.

MunchEm: Do you have any issues obtaining support?

Pam: I don’t have any trouble getting support. You call and you get a person. It’s an immediate response. We often notice we have something wrong after MunchEm notices.

MunchEm: What do your customers think so far?

Blair: The customers love it. Using MunchEm is fun and different and everyone of our customers loves to play with the app. They say the ordering system is easy and that’s a very important part of the puzzle.

MunchEm: Any closing remarks?

Pam: Munchem is a great additional source for getting orders. It’s new so everyone wants to try it and it’s easy to use. Also, when we get an order through MunchEm, we get the order and a phone call about the order. Which is great because sometimes we don’t see the order come up , but we definitely hear that phone call.

Blair: Munchem’s awesome! You guys rock!

The folks at Pammie’s Sammies work hard to make their food and their service amazing. We here at MunchEm believe that location should not be an obstacle for the great local restaurants our city has to offer.

Follow and like Pammie’s Sammies! And when they’re open ( at 8 AM), order from their super convenient Facebook ordering page!

 

 

Restaurant Spotlight: Patacon Con Todo

Meet Patacon Con Todo, a local Colombian food truck turned restaurant.

Their specialty: Delicious pressed and fried plantains, which you can top with everything from chorizo to mushrooms.

Patacon Con Todo is located right across the street from MunchEm HQ at : 6700 Conroy Winderemere Road Ste 105, Orlando, Florida 32835.

Check out this cool video of what Patacon Con Todo owner Andres Jara had to say about our services:

Patacon Con Todo Restaurant Spotlight:

MunchEm: How long have you been in the restaurant business?

Andres : We’ve been in business for six years. We started in a food truck and now we’re actually a restaurant.

MunchEm: How easy was it to get started with MunchEm?

Andres : It was very simple; I gave them my menu. When I least expected it, I already had a website and was listed on the MunchEm app.

MunchEm: How important is technology for restaurants?

Andres: Technology is very important for restaurants. Nowadays, people are on their phones, iphones  or smartphones. It’s as easy as downloading MunchEm or going on my website to get orders from my restaurant now.

MunchEm: Was MunchEm easy to adopt?

Andres: It was easy to adopt. There’s three ways I receive orders: through an app, an email and a phone call.

MunchEm: Is it easy to support?

Andres: It’s really easy, whenever I need to fix something or update my menu, I just give them a call and they’ll fix it instantly.

MunchEm: What are customers saying?

Andres: The other day, I had some clients who ordered and paid online, they came in to pick up their food and all they had to say was that they really enjoyed using the app.

MunchEm: Any closing remarks?

Andres: My goal is to expand and I really believe that MunchEm would help me through this.

Hungry Yet?

Order from Patacon Con Todo on their website!

Or Download their app:

 

If you love Patacon Con Todo as much as we do (what’s not to love?), like them on Facebook and follow on Instagram.

Importance of Online Ordering, If you don’t have it, get it now!

Being online or not is as important as having a telephone in your restaurant or not. Having online food ordering can turn your business from “scraping-by” to “paying the rent early.” Online ordering can turn your lunch counter from a “dust-bowl” in to a “thriving oasis” where people come in to pick up their food. Going from having zero online ordering to having your menu posted online greatly increases your chances of someone coming in or, at least discovering your establishment.

Now, there is one thing between having your menu posted online and then having online ordering. If you just have your menu posted online, you should have about a 20% broader reach than compared to the conventional methods. So, in tandem with handing out your restaurant menu to office parks, you should post your menu online. You can do this on your own website, your social media sites, or social-food sites like Yelp. Doing this also increases your ability for new customers to find your restaurant through the idea of search engine optimization.

To bring yourself to that next level, your restaurant should implement online ordering, ordering through an app, or even Facebook ordering. You can reach so many local customers through this mean. Think of it as advertising and a revenue stream all in one. With online ordering, you will serve more customers, thus earning you more money. Plus, when people order food from online, the average ticket order received from an online purchase is about 12-17% more. You can even accompany your online listed items with photos, so the customer knows what they are getting, and will be more likely to order it.

With app ordering, you are constantly with your customer. They carry you around with them in your pocket and are just a couple of button pushes away from delicious food. It is important when having an app, to have it on both the Apple and Android platforms. This will ensure maximum coverage. Also, make sure that your app is linked to your website, so that customers know that they can order from it.

Another newer innovation is Facebook ordering. This is useful because it can be connected to your business Facebook page, in one of the clickable boxes at the top of your page. People can find photos of your food; get hungry, and order, all on the same page. It makes sense to implement this, as well as online and app food ordering.

At OrderEm we deliver high-quality restaurant websites, apps, and online food ordering.

We here at MunchEm and OrderEm specialize in serving local businesses and helping them get discovered by local customers. We help you out by adding your restaurant to our list of restaurants on our website and our application for iOS and Android. We also provide services like custom websites and a custom app for your restaurant. We can also implement Facebook Ordering on your business page as part of the package. If you don’t have an app or online ordering, consider signing up with us today!

 

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