Features

GlassMenus.Com provides the following features with all versions of our eRestaurant software. The features are completely customizable.

eCommerce

Your customers are increasingly becoming proficient at, accustomed to and demanding to do business online. We have developed a solution that is designed specifically for the food service business. Our eCommerce solutions offers the following features:

  • Multiple Menus, e.g. Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Catering, Weekend, Specials, etc.
  • Takeout, Curbside and Delivery options
  • Merchant Account that takes Master Card, Visa, American Express and Discover credit cards
  • Intergrates smoothly into your current work flow

You can have online order alerts phoned into your restaurant just like existing telephone orders. The order details can be emailed, faxed or available through your secure, management interface to your website. You have the option to approve, edit or reject an online order with your customers receiving email confirmation.

Delivery Support

Your website can be configured to offer online ordering with delivery. You can specify a minimum order amount, a delivery fee and delivery within a distance limitation or maximum driving time.
Our software will automatically take the delivery address entered by the user, verify it and insure that the order meets your minimum requirements.

Marketing

Your web presence provides you with the marketing tools needed to reach new and existing customers.

Let us apply our Search Engine Optimization techniques and tools to help make your website findable by existing and new customers. We also offer a complete marketing service that allows you to run targeted, cost-effective marketing campaigns that drive new customers to your website. Examples include Mother's Day, Catering and other special events.

Your customers can provide their email addresses and opt-in to receiving email messages, establishing a sense of community within your customer base and an opportunity to keep your customers aware any special events or offerings you might have.

We also can provide optional email marketing to reach new customers and work with a leading provider of new mover data so that you can reach new people in your area before your competition.

New and existing businesses can be targeted for catering and business lunch offerings, for example. We offer full service marketing options and can provide mailing lists thru our marketing partner.

Your Website

Our competition provides you with a website, but they stop there. We provide you with a complete web presence designed specifically for the food service industry. eCommerce for restaurants is different from ordering books or CDs online. GlassMenus.Com knows your business and have built, from the ground up, a complete, reliable and secure eCommerce solution tailored for online meals. Your customers will be able to easily add options to their meal- pick their salad dressings, for example, etc.

And, your website is secure using state of the art security processes and advanced SSL communications, just like the rest of the online industry. The difference is, now your customers will be able to order hot meals customized to their liking with all the possible options they can imagine.

Findability

We make sure that your website is findable by new and existing customers. GlassMenus.com works with the major search engines Google, Yahoo and MSN which combined, provide over 94% of all US searches on the web (as of August 3, 2006). Our competition will offer you search engine registration with 100s of search engines, but that is mostly in the remaining 6%. We concentrate on the 3 major search engines and insure that your website is optimized for them. The truth is, most of the smaller search engines use the major search engines to build their databases anyway.

Let our search engine optimization experience work for you. Since our focus is the restaurant industry, we know how to get you noticed.

Your website will be registered with the big 3 and they will know where you are and what you have to offer.

Coordinated Orders

This patent pending option allows you to offer this new and exciting feature created by GlassMenus.Com for the food service business. Coordinated orders allow a member of a family or work group to send a list of email addresses an invitation to order from your site. The coordinator will arrange for payment and pick up of the order and each invitee can choose exactly what food they want at their convenience. This is a great time saver for busy families and professionals.

Website Membership

Login section allows your users and employees to sign into your website. Employees can be given optional roles allowing them to modify the website, update your menus, process orders and communicate with other employees and your customers.

Your customers can create a guest account and enter orders, view their order history, place coordinated order invitations and modify their profiles. Public sign-up can be by invitation only, public sign-up with approval followed up with email verification, and public-sign up without need for any further action.

Your employees can be given privileged roles allowing them to edit content and collaborate. Now your business has its own intranet. Welcome to the new millenium!

Location Map and Driving Directions

Full-featured map offering zooming and scrolling all built in to your website. No going off to some third party website confusing your users with pop up windows.

Full driving directions; your users just enter their location and they get a printable map right to your front door. It couldn't be easier!

Accolades Page

Your reviews can work
for you.Most restaurants have received restaurant reviews and we make it easy for you to keep your list current. Accolades and reviews are important as they provide your customers with unbaised reviews and information about your offerings.

Also, search engines like Google will pay more attention to a website that has other websites pointing to it. Most reviews have your restaurant's URL in it and this will move you up within the search engine results.

Daily Specials Distribution

Our software makes it easy for you to update your daily specials list. Now, you can automatically distribute your specials via email, FAX, SMS and RSS Syndication. Your customers will be able to opt-in and get your daily specials delivered to them just the way they like.

SMS is a feature of all modern mobile phones and users are starting to find this is a new way to get the information they want, when they want it.

RSS Syndication is another new and exciting feature that advanced web users depend on the way most users depend on email. Now you can be at the forefront of internet offerings and be there ready when the advanced users show up.

Food Service Features

GlassMenus.Com provides a whole host of customizable modules designed for the food service industry. These advanced features are generally available on the WWW; we have customized them for the food service industry. That means your website will have all the advanced features that users know and love, yet are now customized for your use.

  • FAQs
  • Special Event Announcement Module
  • User Forums Module
  • Feedback Module
  • Newsletters
  • Guestbook Module
  • Random Quotes Module
  • Marquee Module
  • Quick Polls

Misc Features

Of course, we take care of all details regarding your online presence. Other website providers use this list as their main features. We start here and have worked hard to build a industry-leading offering specifically for the food service industry.

  • Domain name selection and management
  • Email addresses, your domain name, your choice of email addresses
  • Bandwidth for your website
  • Storage space for your data

Any many, many small features too numerous to mention. Since we only work with restaurants, our software works the way you and your customers do!

All versions of our webhosting software are built on our eRestaurant2006 business layer with industry-leading technologies from Microsoft Corporation. We use Microsoft .NET technologies to build all our software and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 to provide world-class database services. Our software architecture is designed by a Microsoft Certified Professional with over 20 years of experience building software and Web Applications for large corporations.