Fazoli’s customers can now order meals via Alexa at some locations, thanks to its partnership with Orderscape, an order automation and voice technology software company, CEO Carl Howard said in an interview with FastCasual.
“Our investment was mainly the time of our team to collaborate with Orderscape and some small soft cost,” he said. “The ordering availability is only available at select company locations while we work through all of the dynamics of this new technology.”
We are having fun developing Alexa Skills and Google Actions for restaurant brands here and in the UK. 2018 is the breakout year for conversational commerce.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 20, 2018
Orderscape announces full-menu ordering certification by Amazon –Voice ordering isn’t on the way, it’s here today.
San Jose, CA: Orderscape, the order automation and voice technology software company to help restaurants grow sales and build deeper and more personalized relationships with their customers, announced today a full-menu ordering certification by Amazon for Fazoli’s restaurants. Fazoli’s customers can now order meals via natural language processing as an Alexa skill at some locations.
Orderscape is among the first automation software companies to crack the code on full-menu voice ordering targeting the global restaurant and hospitality sectors. “We are among the small number of technology companies worldwide to offer full-menu voice ordering solutions for restaurants,” said Ted Cohn, CTO and co-founder of Orderscape.
Orderscape is pioneering order automation using voice technology on a number of conversation channels like Alexa and soon, Google Assistant and Google Home. With full-menu voice ordering, restaurants using leading food ordering platforms like Olo, Onosys and Monkey Media software, among others, can extend their reach and provide a seamless conversational food ordering experience to their customers, creating another revenue stream while significantly improving the customer experience.
“Conversational commerce, or the 4th pillar of online ordering, coupled with artificial intelligence is set to revolutionize digital ordering for restaurants. Voice makes it easy to interface with technology into one, familiar action: speaking. Conversational food ordering technology drives revenue and improves the guest experience at the same time,” said Michael L. Atkinson, CEO and co-founder of Orderscape.
About Orderscape: Orderscape’s customer engagement and conversational commerce platform powers the digital experiences that bolster the relationships between restaurant brands and hungry consumers. The Platform ties together the emerging channels of Voice (Amazon Alexa, Google Home/Assistant, etc.) and ChatBots (Facebook Messenger) to strengthen the customer experience, increase engagement, satisfaction and retention, reduce service costs, and drive additional revenue. Orderscape has accessed over 100,000 restaurant menus on its platform and expects to serve tens of millions of diners, from its growing restaurant marketplace. Learn more at orderscape.com.
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I’m in Dallas speaking at a restaurant technology event this week. Nothing gives me more energy than an attentive audience seeking knowledge or insight into the art of the possible in the restaurant technology sector. Well, that’s a dream, really. Having a large engaged audience able to suspend disbelief just long enough to believe that the Voice User Interface (VUI) is really here. And, here now. That they should immediately activate and engage; maybe order some food using just their voice on relevant digital agent platforms. Well, not so fast. It’s still a dream, especially in the restaurant industry where everyone is seemingly born in Missouri…no disrespect to open-minded, forward-thinking Missourian.
But, I did perhaps, just perhaps, convert one or two to the “art of the possible”. The voice economy, if you will.
Then, a lunch with a like-minded, restaurant industry marketing veteran with passion, intelligence and vision. Whatever personal soul-battery that was nearing the red, suddenly was recharged with one sweet conversation. And, it wasn’t all about resttech…it was also about the industry, the people and why we love it so, consistently for, yes, 40 years now. It helped frame the “why do I do this to myself” question. So thanks, Nancy.
I believe that voice interaction and commerce will indeed change this industry positively and if that’s my one big contribution to foodservice, then it’s worth the hundreds of rejections by otherwise, amazing restaurant professionals. Being ignored like Ray Kroc was selling milkshake blenders is just part of the job – persistence. I realize now, all I need are a few believers, like Nancy. So, thanks to the Nancy’s, the dreamers and believers that keep us believing and working hard to inspire and infect our positivity and vision on the decision makers. Restaurant technology is transforming the restaurant industry and I’m glad I’m helping with that.
Ultimately, we see voice technology as being embedded in everything we‘re doing for use in everyday life. It will really be a voice first world. Check out how Gartner research sees growth.
Do you believe that within 2 years you will be ordering food using a digital assistant, using just your voice? if the answer is yes, who do you think will make that happen? Yep, Orderscape….making that happen today.
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