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How Teriyaki Madness Saved $1M in Delivery Fees
Teriyaki Madness saved $1M in delivery fees from focusing on loyalty, encouraging the customer to order directly through their app, and shifting the focus to pickup with Flybuy. Flybuy tracks through opt-in GPS tracking, not geofencing, so that when the customer is a few minutes out from pulling into the shop, the shop is notified.” The goal is for us to be faster than a drive-thru,” Boyce said. “We want to be waiting out there on the curb for them when they arrive so their transaction is 30 seconds to a minute where we are handing off their food and they're on their way.”
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Firebirds is enhancing customer relationships with the introduction of new technology and strategies. Their Flybuy Pickup solution is integrated into the mobile application and existing online ordering platform to provide a seamless order handoff for off-premise customers.
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Geofencing tech helped the legacy portfolio brand slash wait times. This realization ultimately led to IHOP and Applebee’s deploying Flybuy’s geofencing tech in 2020, aiming to revitalize the in-store, curbside, and delivery driver pickup experiences. The Flybuy platform allows restaurant team members to be proactive, prioritizing orders based on estimated arrival times rather than filling orders on a first-in/first-out basis. Employees are often able to meet guests as they pull into the parking lot and can track customers to ensure they’re heading to the correct location.
Read MoreChipotle Adds Location-based Technology to its Mobile App
Chipotle app users can now enable push notifications that provide updates on their order status, alert them if they’re at the wrong pick-up location and remind them to scan for Rewards points when they arrive at a Chipotle restaurant. Chipotle’s features are facilitated by Radius Networks’ technology platform Flybuy and were tested at 73 restaurants in Cleveland before this week’s broader rollout.
Read MorePaytronix, Flybuy Team Up to Deliver Frictionless Location-based Loyalty, Pickup Solution
The combined offering provides restaurants with an end-to-end off-premises ordering, location-based pickup, loyalty, and engagement solution. With Paytronix, brands can deploy either a white-label app or build a custom one. Both enable guests to order, make payments, and access the brand loyalty program via a personal one-to-one experience that meets customers where they live – on their smartphone. Available for iOS and Android phones, Paytronix mobile apps empower brands to take control of their customer data and deliver true 1:1 marketing by sending targeted offers and incentives (push, pull, SMS, geofenced) to specific customers.
Read MoreFlybuy Launches Integrated Offering with Paytronix
Fully integrated with the Paytronix Mobile App, Flybuy Pickup provides brands with a seamless off-premise ordering and location-based pickup experience. The Paytronix and Flybuy integrated, combined offering is particularly timely for convenience stores that are in the process of a digital transformation, looking for holistic off-premise solutions across online ordering, mobile app, customer pickup, and delivery driver pickup optimization. The Paytronix and Flybuy partnership allows convenience stores to drive more off-premise sales, create a seamless pickup experience, and drive loyalty engagement across all service channels. In addition to Flybuy Pickup, Paytronix is enabling Flybuy Notify, a location-based customer engagement solution, to help boost loyalty engagement and customer behavior en-route, inside, and around the store. Brands that leverage Flybuy Notify have seen a lift in promotional item sales over 30% on average.
Read MorePaytronix, Flybuy Team Up on Loyalty, Pickup Offering
Digital guest experience platform provider Paytronix Systems, Inc. and Flybuy, a location technology platform by Radius Networks, are teaming up on an integrated offering that will provide restaurants and convenience stores with end-to-end off-premises ordering, location-based pickup, loyalty and engagement solution. The technology provides location insight for quicker order, delivery and pickup capability, according to a press release.
Read MoreChipotle Pilots AI Tech to Streamline Kitchen Operations
The solutions include a cook-to-needs management system and advanced location-based technology. Chipotle Mexican Grill announced it is piloting advanced technologies to enhance its employee and guest experience by streamlining operations and reducing friction. The fast-casual chain recently began piloting two new technologies in its restaurants to deliver precise forecasting, optimal quality and increased convenience for digital guests.
Read MoreChipotle Moves Ahead with Kitchen Robots, Seamless Stores
Contextual restaurant experience: Chipotle is piloting advanced location-based technology to enhance its app functionality and provide a seamless, convenient experience for in-store customers. For customers who opt in, the program, based on the Radius Networks Flybuy platform, engages with Chipotle app users upon their arrival and utilize real-time data to enhance their experience with interactive services such as order readiness messaging, wrong pick-up location detection, and reminders to scan the Chipotle Rewards QR code at checkout.
Read MoreChipotle Reveals Latest Technology Pilots
The fast-casual brand is testing a kitchen management system that leverages AI and machine learning, and advanced location-based technology in its mobile app. Chipotle’s contextual restaurant program, utilizing Radius Networks’ technology platform, Flybuy, is currently being tested at 73 restaurants in Cleveland, Ohio. Early results indicate positive performance with improved in-store rewards engagement, order alert notifications, and efficiencies with earlier assignments for marketplace delivery drivers.
Read MoreChipotle Mexican Grill Invests in More AI Technology
Chipotle Mexican Grill announced Tuesday it would be piloting advanced technologies to streamline operations and reduce friction. The technology being tested by the fast-casual leader utilizes Radius Networks’ technology platform, Flybuy, and works to enhance the chain’s app functionality. For guests who opt-in, the program can engage with Chipotle app users upon restaurant arrival. It utilizes real-time data to enhance consumers’ experience with order readiness messaging, wrong pick-up location detection, reminders to scan the Chipotle Rewards QR code at checkout, and more.
Read MoreChipotle Mexican Grill Will Test Robotic Tortilla Chip Maker ‘Chippy’ in California restaurant
Chipotleis piloting a new system to reduce food waste and location-based technology for its mobile app, Flybuy. And in Cleveland, the company said 73 of its restaurants are piloting location-based technology to improve its mobile app. The program is meant to help customers and delivery drivers know when orders are ready, if they’re at the wrong location and to scan loyalty QR codes.
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