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GoMobo® is a remote ordering platform founded in 2005 by entrepreneur Noah Glass.[1] The service allows customers to order and pay ahead over the Internet or through a mobile phone, so that they can "Skip the Line®" at quick-serve restaurants (QSR’s) and casual-dining restaurants (CDR's) across the United States.[2] In 2009, New York Magazine referred to GoMobo as "Fandango for Food."[3] GoMobo launched in New York City in 2006 and has since expanded to over 20 cities across the nation.[4]

GoMobo Major Restaurant Clients

In addition to the GoMobo.com Internet restaurant directory, GoMobo.mobi mobile restaurant directory, and GoMobo Food Finder iPhone App, GoMobo is a service provider to restaurants that want to add remote ordering capabilities to their existing restaurant websites. Current "Powered by GoMobo" ordering microsites include:

Do-It-Yourself Online Ordering

GoMobo also works with hundreds of independent restaurants, providing them with self-service management tools that make it easy to add remote ordering services to their existing restaurant websites. Using the GoMobo Self-Signup tool, restaurant owners and managers can sign up their restaurants online, manage store info, website design, online menus, and delivery settings, and pull chain-level, region-level, or store-level reports on sales, products, and users.

OLO™ The Takeout Order Receiver

In early 2010, GoMobo launched a standalone hardware device called “OLO™” (a restaurant industry acronym for On-Line Ordering), which allows restaurants who lack Internet access or an advanced point-of-sale system to make use of the GoMobo remote ordering platform. When customers place orders online or from their mobile phone, GoMobo transmits the orders to the restaurants’ OLO device, which buzzes and sounds a siren to notify the restaurant crew that the order has arrived. OLO 1.0 made use of the Peek® Pronto device by Peek and launched with 100 restaurants in Southern California and Las Vegas.

GoMobo Mobile Services

GoMobo was the first US online ordering company to release text message ordering capabilities in 2005. Today, GoMobo works with restaurants to create mobile applications for the Android, Blackberry, and iPhone. GoMobo also creates mobile-optimized mobile ordering websites, that allow customers to place orders with faster page load times and fewer clicks and keystrokes. Current "Powered by GoMobo" mobile ordering microsites include:

GoMobo Executives

  • Noah Glass, Chief Executive Officer[5]
  • Andrew Murray, Systems Architect[6]
  • David Fellows, Director of Product Development[7]

GoMobo Investors

GoMobo Board of Directors

GoMobo Advisory Board

  • Terry Addington, CTIA Former Chairman
  • Aubrey Balkind, Frankfurt-Balkind Former CEO
  • Greg Barton, Menupages.com Founder
  • Richard Blake, Burger King Senior Manager Integrated Restaurants Technology Standards
  • Des Docherty, VISA Cross Product Senior Business Leader
  • Dr. Chris Howard, Hampden-Sydney College President
  • Jim Melvin, Intelligent Transactions, LLC CEO

About Noah Glass

Noah Glass is a New York-based entrepreneur. For his work with GoMobo, he was named to BusinessWeek’s 2006 list of “Best Young Entrepreneurs,” [8] featured on CNN’s “Young People Who Rock” in May, 2007 [9] and “The Big Idea with Donny Deutch” in September 2007. [10] In 2009, Glass was named to the Silicon Alley 100 list by Silicon Alley Insider. [11] Glass graduated from Yale University.[12]

References

  1. ^ David Muir (20 September 2006). "Texting Food Orders Makes Cutting In Line OK". ABC News.
  2. ^ Alexander Wolfe (1 November 2007). "GoMobo Brings Fandango-Like Advance Ordering To Your Morning Coffee Run". Information Week.
  3. ^ Emma Rosenblum (2 August 2009). "Line Cutter". New York Magazine.
  4. ^ "Food ordering by text message". Springwise. 12 September 2007.
  5. ^ "Noah Glass LinkedIn profile".
  6. ^ "Andrew Murray LinkedIn profile".
  7. ^ "David Fellows LinkedIn profile".
  8. ^ Jeffrey Gangemi (30 October 2006). "Young, Fearless, and Smart". Businessweek.
  9. ^ "Noah Glass". CNN. 30 April 2007.
  10. ^ "Noah Glass - GoMobo". CNBC. 19 September 2007.
  11. ^ Silicon Alley Insider (9 December 2009). "Silicon Alley 100". Business Insider.
  12. ^ "Noah Glass LinkedIn profile".
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