Text Messaging and Fast Food Orders
Categories: Mobile Food order, fast food, text message, www.Gomobo.com
The launch of text messaging takeout orders is making its debut in America.
A distinctive new mobile food ordering service could simplify the expediency of takeout. In New Haven, Connecticut, New York and coming soon to Chicago, Boston as well as Philadelphia, GoMobo.com offers fast food orders by text messaging. The Mobo service works by customers registering their cellphone number, credit card account number and list of favorite food orders at participating eateries online. .
Each food preference is assigned a corresponding code number listed on MOBO System’s Web site. The new technology can be used to place orders via the Internet, providing customers with a cellphone confirmation. In cases where a restaurant is unable to fulfill the order, the consumer receives either a text message with an apology or a personal call from the restaurant to amend the order. Mobo’s nifty service is free for customers; however, restaurants pay 10 percent of the food bill.
Other companies are extending similar services with different features. For example, in Palo Alto, Redwood City and Menlo Park, California, MyTango.com provides mobile food ordering service, too; but, restaurants pay a little over one percent/per order and customers eat a transaction fee of between 10 and 25 cents an order. (It remains undetermined how much faster ordering takeout via text messaging will accelerate the process…Stay tuned).
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By Holly Bentz , contributing editor, © 2006 fruitionMedia.net
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