Lou Malnati’s chooses Chowly to streamline online orders into their POS.

Chicago, IL -- (ReleaseWire) -- 03/20/2018 -- Chowly, the nation's leading Third-party to POS integration company, and Lou Malnati's, known for their legendary deep dish pizza, today announced a partnership to provide seamless integration from Grubhub directly into Lou Malnati's point of sale system.

"When Lou Malnati's looks at adding on a technology partner, there are a couple things we focus on. We were impressed by the number of integrations Chowly has done, but we were sold by their team and their ability to communicate, which are very important to us when choosing the right technology partner." said Ben Beckstrom, CIO at Lou Malnati's.

Third-Party delivery services are an emerging revenue source for restaurants and also a necessity to stay competitive in the world of online ordering. For restaurants, the decision to add on Third-party channels can be an easier one, but as orders come in via tablets, faxes and emails, staff can quickly get overwhelmed. Chowly sends the order directly from the third party to the POS and the order prints in the kitchen just as if an employee was in the restaurant typing the order. This saves time, labor costs, and makes sure the customer's order gets placed just as they intended.

"At Lou Malnati's, hospitality and care for our customers is the top priority. Chowly will help us stay true to this by integrating these orders efficiently and correctly." said Ben.

Lou Malnati's prides itself on customer satisfaction and hospitality. They are committed to continually improving their customer experience without compromising on the consistency and quality their loyal customer base has come to know and love.

"As a long-time fan of Lou Malnati's, I grew up on their pizza." Justin McNally, Chowly's Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer said, "I am very excited to be solving a major pain point for a brand that means a lot to me."

Justin went on to say "When Ben came to us and explained his problems with staffing people just to manage his tablets, I knew we needed to help. Working with him and his team was very smooth, we rolled out a custom solution compatible with their Enterprise Order Orchestration platform in a matter of weeks. He has a great team that is a pleasure to work with."

About Chowly
Chowly integrates Restaurant Aggregator (UberEats, Grubhub, etc.) orders into the restaurant's current POS system so staff members don't waste time manually entering them. Chowly lowers staffing costs by eliminating the need for staff to do data entry. Eliminating this need allows restaurants to add on as many platforms as they wish increasing their net sales. Our automated solution vastly decreases errors as orders are always inputted correctly and quickly. Chowly is now assisting restaurants in over 100 markets across the USA & Canada.

About Lou Malnati's Pizzeria
Considered the oldest family name in Chicago pizza, Lou Malnati's has 51 Chicagoland locations, and two pizzerias in Phoenix, Arizona. Their commitment to quality and hospitality is what sets them apart. Every Lou Malnati's pizza is handmade from scratch using the finest and freshest ingredients. Every year, the Malnati team hand selects California vine-ripened tomatoes for the perfect sweet and tangy taste. The exclusive sausage blend is seasoned to their exact specifications. The fresh mozzarella cheese comes from the same small dairy farm that has supplied Lou Malnati's for over 45 years.

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Partnership Unifies Best Restaurant POS Integration and Industry’s Only Third-Party Online Ordering Aggregator

Chicago, IL -- (ReleaseWire) -- 12/11/2017 -- Chowly, the industry's only third-party online ordering aggregator (TOOS), announced the company partnered with Upserve to provide the restaurant industry a seamless integration from food orders placed online directly into the leading restaurant point of sale system, Breadcrumb POS by Upserve. The integration saves restaurateurs time, money and frustration by eliminating the need to manually enter online orders into the POS. The integration is available today on Upserve Marketplace, a single hub for unifying the widest array of technology solutions for restaurateurs.

"This partnership makes sense for everyone," said Joe Lawton, Chief Operations Officer at Chowly. "At Chowly we share the same values as Upserve, helping restaurants smooth operations and exceed expectations. This makes us beyond excited to be another tool Upserve customers can use to take their restaurant to the forefront of hospitality technology and innovation."

Third-Party delivery services are a huge revenue source for restaurants and also a necessity to stay competitive in the world of online ordering. For restaurants, the decision to publish their menu is usually an easy one, but as orders come in via tablets, faxes and emails, staff can quickly get overwhelmed. The partnership between Upserve and Chowly removes the extra legwork. Chowly sends the order directly from the third party to the restaurant POS and the order prints in the kitchen just as if an employee was in the restaurant typing the order. This saves time, labor costs on having someone to enter the order, and makes sure the customer's order gets placed just as they intended, never having to refund an order.

"The restaurant is a place of rapid-fire collaboration where every second counts," said Dave Hoffman, Vice President of Corporate Development at Upserve. "But for restaurants taking online food orders, the lack of connection between third-party orders and their POS is an unwelcome bottleneck. Our partnership with Chowly gives restaurants a faster, easier-to-use system so they can focus on their cuisine and their guests."

Upserve's restaurant management platform is the only solution to bring together payments processing, cloud-based point of sale system (Breadcrumb POS by Upserve) and restaurant analytics and communication tools.The company launched Upserve Marketplace so that restaurant owners and operators have a one-stop-shop for every aspect of running their business, connecting more than a dozen apps – spanning categories like accounting, inventory management, gift cards, data security and more – directly with the Upserve platform. Restaurants interested in the Upserve Marketplace, and technology partners interested in integrating, can learn more at upserve.com/marketplace.

About Upserve
Upserve is the magic ingredient that helps restaurateurs thrive, putting everything they need in one place. In a single platform, Upserve offers the market-leading cloud point of sale for restaurants, Breadcrumb POS by Upserve; actionable analytics through Upserve HQ; transparent processing with Upserve Payments; mobile restaurant management with Upserve Live, and seamless integration with leading third-party restaurant apps via the Upserve Marketplace. Thousands of restaurants use Upserve to manage relationships with more than 32 million active diners, process over $11 billion in annual sales, and serve over 23 million meals per month. Upserve is headquartered in Providence with additional offices in San Francisco and New York City. For more information, please visit Upserve.com.

About Chowly
Chowly integrates Restaurant Aggregator (UberEats, Grubhub, etc.) orders into the restaurant's current POS system so staff members don't waste time manually entering them. Chowly lowers staffing costs by eliminating the need for staff to do data entry. Eliminating this need allows restaurants to add on as many platforms as they wish increasing their net sales. Our automated solution vastly decreases errors as orders are always inputted correctly and quickly. Chowly is now assisting restaurants in over 50 markets across the USA & Canada.

For more information, please visit http://www.chowlyinc.com.

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Chicago, IL -- (ReleaseWire) -- 11/08/2017 -- Chowly of Chicago, IL has been named one of the winners of the 16th annual Chicago Innovation Awards.

Chowly, winner of the Up and Comer Award at The Chicago Innovation Awards, an event held at Chicago's Harris Theater on Monday, October 30, with nearly 1500 business and civic leaders, and supporters of innovation in attendance. The Chicago Innovation Awards, celebrating its 16th year, is the Chicago region's foremost recognition of the most innovative new products or services brought to market or to public service each year. Justin McNally, Co-Founder & CPO of Chowly said at the event, "Chowly is excited to finish 2017 strong and we are only picking up momentum as we head into 2018."

Chowly integrates TOOS (Third Party Online Orders) directly to a restaurants POS. Grubhub, UberEats, Caviar, etc. orders come in via tablets, faxes and e-mails and staff are required to manually input those orders and send them back to the kitchen. Chowly integrates Restaurant Aggregator orders into the restaurant's POS system so staff members don't waste time manually entering them. This alleviates many headaches for restaurant owners as it saves the restaurant time, money, and can increase revenue by adding on multiple platforms without having to add multiple tablets to the counter. Geoff Alexander, EVP of Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises said "Instead of needing a wall of Ipads and someone responsible to monitor them, we now receive our third party delivery requests directly into our POS and KDS system. They have acknowledged a major pain point and created a cost effective solution."

"Chicago's innovators continue to demonstrate the breadth of innovation found in the Chicago region, cutting across all industries, sectors and sizes," said Tom Kuczmarski, co-founder with Chicago journalist Dan Miller of the awards. "2017 winners are pioneers in healthcare, food services, data analytics, architecture, chemical products, transportation, government, household appliances, digital technology, childcare, non-profit, economic development, and beauty care."

Sterling Douglass, Co-Founder & CEO of Chowly after accepting the award stated, "Chicago has been very kind to us and to me personally. The ecosystem here has allowed us to grow and learn from great individuals around the City. From the workshops at 1871 to the supremely helpful Venture Capital firms that have backed us, the Chicago Innovation Award is great recognition for our team as a product of a great city."

"Over 530 organizations nominated for this year's awards," said Luke Tanen, Executive Director of the Chicago Innovation Awards. "As a group, these nominees generated record totals in economic output, with nearly $3.4 billion in new revenues achieved from their new products and services, along with the creation of over 15,000 new jobs. The winners represent the best from this very impressive group."

The complete list of this year's Chicago Innovation Award winners can be found at http://www.chicagoinnovation.com.

The Chicago Innovation Awards are supported by Gold Sponsors Comcast Business, Wintrust Financial and SMS Assist; Silver Sponsors Exelon, Vedder Price and others.

Chicago Innovation Awards: Luke Tanen, luke@chicagoinnovationawards.com.

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Chicago, IL -- (ReleaseWire) -- 11/01/2017 -- Lavu Point of Sale (POS) restaurant management systems and Chowly announced a new partnership integrating Chowly with Lavu POS customers to process Third Party Online Ordering Systems (TOOS). With the Chowly integration, restaurants can save time and money and ensure a seamless customer experience for those ordering online. Lavu president Ohad Jehassi explained the partnership as "another example of Lavu's commitment to joining with industry leaders to bring its customers leading restaurant technology that supports their success."

TOOS are a huge revenue source for restaurants and also a necessity to stay competitive in the world of online ordering. Aggregators like Grubhub, UberEATS, Delivery.com, ChowNow and many more offer a plethora of online ordering options to savvy customers with a mobile device and the world at their fingertips. For restaurants, the decision to publish their menu is usually an easy one, but once the orders roll in, the amount of labor involved is often much more than anticipated. Orders come in via faxes and e-mails and staff are required to manually input those orders and send them back to the kitchen. Chowly integrates Restaurant Aggregator orders into the restaurant's POS system so staff members don't waste time manually entering them. The partnership between Lavu and Chowly removes the extra legwork. Chowly sends the order directly from the third party to the restaurant POS and the order prints in the kitchen just like an order from a server at a table. This saves time and money and makes sure the customer's order gets placed just as they intended.

"We are very excited to be partnering with a great company like Lavu" said Chief Product Officer, Justin McNally. "Lavu has so many great customers that will now have access to our industry changing POS integration solution."

About Lavu
Lavu is the world's leading mobile point-of-sale restaurant management system. Used in 89 countries worldwide, Lavu is a fully featured iPad-based POS system designed exclusively for restaurants and bars. Lavu was the first iPad point of sale in the Apple App Store, and continues to be a pioneer of technology. Lavu is ideal for all food and drink establishments, streamlining operations to simplify management and improve the customer experience.

https://www.lavu.com

About Chowly Inc.
Chowly integrates Restaurant Aggregator (UberEats, Eat24, etc.) orders into the restaurant's current POS system so staff members don't waste time manually entering them. Chowly lowers staffing costs by eliminating the need for staff to do data entry. Eliminating this need allows restaurants to add on as many platforms as they wish increasing their net sales. Our automated solution vastly decreases errors as orders are always inputted correctly and quickly. Chowly is now assisting restaurants in over 50 markets across the USA & Canada.

https://chowlyinc.com

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