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Category: Hospitality
wi-Q to bring market leading mobile ordering technology to Restaurant Tech Live
On 27th and 28th September, we’re heading to Restaurant Tech Live at the ExCel, London, to showcase our award-winning mobile ordering system, Wi-Q, on stand 1232. Restaurant Tech Live is a major new European exhibition dedicated to the emerging technology and services that are shaping the future of restaurant businesses, bringing together the latest products, services, systems and advancements from across the globe. The event Continue Reading
Events
wi-Q is shortlisted for its second 2016 hospitality industry award
We are excited to announce that wi-Q has been shortlisted amongst the industry’s leading innovators by The Caterer’s inaugural Digital Vision Awards. Recognised for our impact on the hospitality sector, including customer experience and business performance, we are thrilled to be a finalist for the Digital Achievement/Innovation Award as part of the Digital Development category. On hearing the news, wi-Q’s Continue Reading
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wi-Q at The Caterer Digital Summit 2016
We are delighted to be a main sponsor for the upcoming Caterer Digital Summit 2016, where Stephen Kennedy our non-executive chairman will be representing wi-Q as an expert speaker amongst a day packed with fantastic personnel from the hospitality industry. As always, The Caterer Digital Summit will explore and discuss the technological advances and innovative ideas that are both simplifying and Continue Reading
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Mobile ordering survey from The Caterer highlights wi-Q as a leading hospitality solution
This month, The Caterer published its latest Hot Topic industry survey highlighting the role mobile ordering and payment solutions will have in the future of the hospitality industry. You can download the survey results here, or read on for the full article from The Caterer's Brendan Coyne We are glued to our phones. We don’t like queuing. Make guests wait too long, and they Continue Reading
Food & Beverage
wi-Q Wins the Technology Innovation Award at Hotelympia 2016
We are incredibly proud to announce that wi-Q has won the Hotelympia Technology Innovation Award sponsored by Hotelympia 2016 in conjunction with the Caterer. The competition included more than 150 entries, whittled down to the final 18, who exhibited alongside the Hotelympia main stage before presentations and judging on Monday, 29 February. As part of the final stage, we presented our Continue Reading
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Come and experience wi-Q for yourself at the Retail Business Technology Expo 2016
Hailed as the must-attend event for retail, hospitality, travel, entertainment and leisure operators, the Retail Business Technology Expo (RBTE) is another exciting opportunity for the wi-Q team to showcase our mobile ordering solution to a large audience of potential customers. Alongside more than 550 global exhibitors, covering a vast range of solutions and services, we are confident wi-Q will attract a lot Continue Reading
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wi-Q is Shortlisted for Hotelympia Innovation Award 2016
Already excited about the opportunity to showcase our product to the vast audience of potential customers at Hotelympia, we’ve just received the fantastic news that wi-Q has been shortlisted for the 2016 Hotelympia Innovation Award for Technology. Hotelympia is the UK’s largest foodservice and hospitality event and is visited by over 32,000 industry professionals from 87 countries seeking the latest Continue Reading
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World-class Solution Brings an End to Queuing in Top Essex Restaurant
As one of the south-East’s most popular eateries, The Lion Inn Restaurant, Hotel and Bar at Boreham has recently undergone a major refurbishment and is exceptionally busy, catering for between 500 and 1000 restaurant customers every day. That can mean long queues, so the innovative Essex restaurant has introduced wi-Q, a world-leading from-the-table customer ordering system designed to put an Continue Reading
Case Studies
4 ways to make a hotel stay better
Whether your guests are away for a work conference, a family break or a romantic getaway, you want their stay in your hotel to be relaxing and pleasant. But what could you do to make their stay even better? Whilst some of the following gripes may seem trivial, they can make or break a TripAdvisor review. 1. Make sure the Continue Reading
General
Should Restaurants Keep Tips?
The subject of tipping is on everybody’s lips in the hospitality industry at the moment, with many restaurants under the spotlight for not sharing tips with their staff, and Members of the Commons Business Select Committee pushing for a parliamentary inquiry into the practice. In August 2015 the problem was highlighted by the Evening Standard when it revealed that the Continue Reading
Food & Beverage
Why we should all be making exceptions to the ‘no mobiles at the restaurant table’ rule
According to a recent poll of 2,000 British diners by restaurant booking platform Bookatable.co.uk, over a third of respondents thought that the ability to pay via mobile, known as Pay-At-Table technology, instead of waiting for staff to prepare the bill, would enhance their customer experience. From the establishment’s perspective Pay-At-Table increases the table turn-over rate and frees up staff to Continue Reading
Food & Beverage
wi-Q Helps Restaurants and Pubs to Display Calorie Content of Food
The Local Government Association (LGA) which represents more than 370 UK councils is urging the hospitality industry to join them in the battle against obesity. They are asking restaurants, cinemas and pubs to follow the US lead and display the calorific value of food either on the menu or at the counter. The reasoning behind this request is that by Continue Reading
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