{"id":9143,"date":"2016-08-09T14:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T21:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/premierfoodsafety_OLD\/?p=9143"},"modified":"2016-08-09T14:00:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T21:00:09","slug":"new-app-allows-restaurant-orders-via-facebook-messenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/new-app-allows-restaurant-orders-via-facebook-messenger\/","title":{"rendered":"New app allows restaurant orders via Facebook Messenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\ndiv#keypoints {\n  margin-left: 2em; margin-top: 0.5em;\n}\nli#takeaway1, li#takeaway2, li#takeaway3 { \n}\np#quote {\n  background-color: #AFEEEE; padding: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; font-style:italic;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"richsummary\">\n<p id=\"abstract\">Who wants to stop using Facebook, even when you need food? No need to disconnect now &#8211; instead you can just order straight through the extremely popular Facebook Messenger App if you are in New York City or Palo Alto or San Francisco California thanks to a bot created by Allset. The only additional cost added for using this service at one of the over 180 restaurants accepting orders through Messenger and the bot is a 10 percent table fee.<\/p>\n<p>Key Takeaways:<\/p>\n<ul id=\"takeaways\">\n<li id=\"takeaway1\">Tech-savvy consumers may soon be able to book lunch reservations, order and pay ahead for their meals using Facebook.<\/li>\n<li id=\"takeaway2\">The idea is that consumers are particularly starved for time at lunch. Ordering and paying ahead allows them to skip the wait for a table, as well as skipping time lost perusing the menu and waiting for a check at the end of a meal.<\/li>\n<li id=\"takeaway3\">For restaurants, the app\/bot improves efficiency, helps put guests in seats and speeds table turnover rates, Allset contends.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"quote\">&#8220;Guests can order and even pay before they arrive at the restaurant, saving time. The bot also allows guests to give comments or special instructions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"source\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/restaurant-hospitality.com\/consumer-trends\/new-app-allows-restaurant-orders-facebook-messenger\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/restaurant-hospitality.com\/consumer-trends\/new-app-allows-restaurant-orders-facebook-messenger<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who wants to stop using Facebook, even when you need food? No need to disconnect now &#8211; instead you can just order straight through the extremely popular Facebook Messenger App if you are in New York City or Palo Alto or San Francisco California thanks to a bot created by Allset. The only additional cost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}