Are Virtual Gifts the Future of Brand Loyalty? The hospitality industry is becoming increasingly more innovative as technology advances. While some brands are slower to adopt change than others, the growing pressures to provide personalized and environmentally-friendly experiences have even the slowest adopters welcoming change. Loyalty programs are ripe for reimagination. While perks, points, and…
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…
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…
Nation’s Restaurant News featured BYOM™ QR code menus, powered by Uptown Network, in their article: Nation’s Restaurant News: Tech Tracker: Wendy’s and Five Guys first to adopt Coca-Cola Freestyle Contactless Pouring. Excerpt From Nation’s Restaurant News: Tech Tracker: Wendy’s and Five Guys first to adopt Coca-Cola Freestyle Contactless Pouring QR codes enjoy…
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…