Technori Pitch: Uptown Network’s Digital Menus Offer New Monetization for Restaurants Everywhere Uptown Network was recently featured on Technori, Chicago’s largest tech/media platform with a community made up of fellow founders, entrepreneurs and investors. It was a pleasure speaking with Scott Kitun, CEO of Technori, and hearing his thoughts on Uptown Network: “This isn’t just a menu.…
Esquire: It Seems That QR Code Menus Are Here to Stay Esquire ponders the future of QR codes and digital menus and concludes they’re here to stay. Jack Serfass, CEO of Uptown Network, quoted: “According to Jack Serfass, CEO of food and beverage software company Uptown Network, the future is digital and more sustainable. ‘I…
ABC 7: Viewing The Digital Menus at Deep Lagoon in Naples Highlighted Quotes: “If you’re ever intimidated by a wine list, you don’t have to anymore because it will tell you everything you’ll need to know. You can touch it [BYOM™], it’s interactive.” – Chef Nic “You can see the bottle and you know what…
Reduced COVID cases have ushered in a new season of hope for the hospitality industry, and society is eager to get out and explore after a year of lockdown. Hotels now face the challenge of creating long-awaited memorable experiences while also continuing health and safety precautions. The big question at hand is: “How?” Uptown Network…
MURTEC 2021: How Augmented Reality Can Enhance Restaurant Revenue Recovery Check out the full MURTEC 2021 interview with Robert Firpo-Cappiello, Editor-in-Chief of Hospitality Technology, and James King, CEO of Titan Hospitality, as they discuss Uptown Network’s innovative solutions that include the experiential component for guests while also adding revenue recovery for restaurants: Highlighted Quotes: “Anytime…
The Best Digital Menu Experiences of 2021 After 2020, we have seen countless ways the hospitality industry has been utilizing technology for a safe and clean dining environment. Digital menus for restaurants, whether they are scanned from a QR Code or embedded in an iPad, have become the new standard and we’ve been seeing them…
Uptown Network has been surprised to learn how many restaurants attempted to rollout digital menus in the early days of the market without success. This is a shame as these restaurants should have been rewarded as being the first and leaders in the industry. We have learned that in those early days there were many…
How the Industry Can Help Bring Back the Experiential Component of Hospitality Restaurants and hotels are major players in the experience economy, which refers to the market wherein consumers don’t just want a simple product. They also want a memorable event to go with it. Fine dining restaurants don’t just offer food — they make…
StreetFight’s article “Can Immersive Marketing Boost Local Businesses?” talks about the use of AR in local businesses. Author: Mike Boland January 14th, 2021 Excerpt From StreetFight: Can Immersive Marketing Boost Local Businesses? Less-Obvious Evolutions Beyond these well-known areas of SMB digital transformation, there are less obvious evolutions. Ten months into various stages of lockdown, we…
Modern Restaurant Management’s article “Three Ways to Bring Your ‘A’ Game to Accessibility” informs restaurants on ways that digitizing menus can help improve accessibility. Excerpt From Modern Restaurant Management: Three Ways to Bring Your ‘A’ Game to Accessibility Get Rid of PDFs Supplementing or replacing paper menus with portable document format (PDF) digital menus has been…