Why GlassMenus.Com

Mission Statement

We do our best to provide quality service at a reasonable price, to respect each and every customer’s wishes, dealing with them as though they were our friends.

Our goal is to create an environment where any sort of web hosting need can be fulfilled quickly at the best price possible within a helpful community of like-minded individuals.

Our number one priority is to deal with every client as a human being and friend, just the way we would want to be treated. We think that more than anything else, is the most important reason for our continued success.

As a full service website development and hosting service focused on the Restaurant industry, GlassMenus.Com knows your business and works day and night to insure that you get the most value for your money.

Our software is designed to work with any size operation from the neighborhood pizza shop, to the full service sit down eatery, to multi-location restaurants.

GlassMenus.Com has been providing website design and hosting to the restaurant industry since 2001 and has extensive experience designing and building large commercial web applications.

Services

GlassMenus.Com offers a full compliment of offerings from simple web presence to a full online ordering system with active marketing.

GlassMenus.Com offers the most comprehensive list of options for the restaurant industry because that is all we do. This focus allows GlassMenus.Com to offer the best combination of price and performance.

We feature

  • ECommerce for takeout, delivery, catering and curb-side orders
  • Dynamic built-in maps and driving directions
  • Marketing and Search Engine Optimization to get your website noticed
  • And much, much more

WebSite Design

GlassMenus.Com can create a customized, professional and economical website that reflects your restaurant, eatery, pub or food shop. Our complete competency with the technologies used and our long history of working with the restaurant industry guarantees that your website will communicate to your customers while still being extremely economical.

Complete E-Commerce Web Presence

  • Hosted website designed and built just for your restaurant
  • Online ordering with options of takeout, delivery and curbside pickup
  • Dynamic menus easily support daily menus and ability to temporarily make a menu item unavailable
  • Order notifications sent via email, FAX, telephone voice notification or to your computer for direct notification or integration into POS system (ask about POS compatibility)
  • Credit card merchant account for Card Not Present internet ordering
  • Scalable design supports small shop to large multi-location restaurant
  • Marketing campaigns
  • Executive Analytical reporting providing quick snapshots of the vists to your site including the total number of visits, pageviews, first time vs. returning visits and much, much more
  • Active marketing management. GlassMenus.Com actively works to increase traffic to your website in order to build your customer base

We make your WebSite Simple for you!

  • Professional design that reflects your unique presentation
  • Search engine optimized for the major search engines
  • Economical, yet full of features designed specifically for the restaurant industry

ECommerce

Be among the first restaurants in your area to offer an eCommerce enabled websiteThe world is changing rapidly, with the internet becoming the primary way that customers find and purchase what they are looking for. With GlassMenus.Com Ecommerce, your customers will be able to easily order online, saving you the time and expense of your staff filling phone orders. More and more people prefer to shop online and as this trend grows this will include ordering takeout and delivery of restaurant food. Get the competitive advantage now!

More than just a website... a web presence!

We start off by creating a press release announcing your new website offering eCommerce to your local newspapers, providing an integrated marketing effort to attract new local customers and to alert existing customers to your trend-setting eCommerce capability.

This is just the start as your website is findable by over 80% of people searching for food in your area. Your website will be known to Google, Yahoo and MSN. As of April, 2006 Google had 43.1%, Yahoo 28.0% and MSN 12.9% of the US search market share. Your website will be optimized to be found organically by these 3 search engines which represent over 83% of searches in the US. Organic, or natural searches are those with appear on keyword search engine placement pages that are not paid for.

We also offer paid search engine placement as an additional service when you decide you want to drive more customers to your site. This is an especially useful technique for special occassions like Mother's Day and special services such as Catering.

Things we do differently

Save you time by developing your website with our rich, customizable set of templates and features designed specifically for your business.

  • Interactive maps that give detailed directions from a customer’s current departing location to your restaurant without leaving your site
  • Allow your customers to order online fully integrated with your custom designed and hosted GlassMenus.com website or integrated with your existing website
  • Ease of use- tools to allow you to easily make changes to your menu and website as well as the option to have your site fully maintained by our staff

We offer a wide range of service plans, hosting options and design packages. Hosting options depend on your restaurant size and number of locations and start as low as $20 a month in order to fit your budget and needs.

Reliability and highly available service because of our total network redundancy and 24 by 7 by 365 staffed data center. This insures that your website is there when your customers are.

Only state of the art Microsoft operating systems and tools are used for all of our products. As Microsoft Certified Professionals, we are qualified with the technologies and experienced in their use. Our solutions are 100% based upon Microsoft technologies and are therefore fully compatible. Our direct relationship with Microsoft guarantees smooth operation of your GlassMenus.Com developed solutions.

We help to create a community of restaurant owners and managers sharing their challenges and successes. Besides the standard links for things like email, there are areas for customer suggestions, newsletters, Site of the Month, the unofficial GlassMenus.Com directory, the GlassMenus.com Rewards program as well as a customer discussion area.

But the biggest difference, the one that keeps people singing our praises and referring their friends, is our customer service. Every message is responded to with a friendly, helpful and completely honest answer. Sometimes a server does go down, and we let our customers know when it happens. We will also let them know if a cheaper plan better fits their needs, or what sort of software we personally use for whatever they are trying to implement.

We are easy to do business with

  • We have flexible and customer-oriented billing practices
  • You get an uconditional 30 day money back guarantee on all accounts
  • Dynamic menus easily support daily menus and ability to temporarily make a menu item unavailable
  • Order notifications sent via email, FAX, telephone voice notification or to your computer for direct notification or integration into POS system (ask about POS compatability)
  • No hidden costs, no minimum monthly contracts and a price freeze in effect guaranteeing that any price you sign up for on a recurring plan will never, ever increase!
  • We accept payment via credit card, checks or money order
  • Easy to use web-based control panel to manage your account