Corporate Catering and Home Entertaining Just Got Easier with DiningIn’s Virtual Food Court and Social Group Ordering Services
BOSTON-(Business Wire)-September 24, 2009 - DiningIn, the nation’s premier restaurant delivery service, today announced a menu of online offerings that enable businesses and home users to save time and money while making their employees or guests happy.
Leveraging more than two decades of experience delivering high-quality meals, DiningIn’s new applications give companies a cost-effective employee benefit while simplifying the labor-intensive process of ordering meals or catering for groups and individuals. For example, the new Prix Fixe offering is available exclusively for corporate customers:
- Prix Fixe – Allows companies to offer employees a reprieve from the same old lunch options by providing a “virtual food court” that consists of the city’s hottest restaurants. As companies cut costs and office extras, this perk comes at no cost to the employer and gives HR an additional benefit to help keep moral high. A company representative simply logs into their DiningIn account and creates a schedule of restaurants that deliver on specific days. Employees are asked to place their lunch order online from one or more of the preselected restaurants for that day, and all meals will be delivered at a designated time. This substantially reduces delivery fees and gives employees something to get excited about.
Applications available for home or office customers include:
- Group – Provides an easy way to manage orders for important client meetings, employee lunches, holiday parties or weekend get-togethers while eliminating the logistical complications. After logging in, the executive assistant, co-worker or host uses the application to choose a restaurant, schedule meal delivery at a convenient time and send email invitations to their guests. Everyone will then receive an email asking them to place their own order by a specified time. If the host or company is feeling generous they can “pick up the tab” but if the bill is being split everyone pays for themselves via the online system.
- Catering Buffet – Allows employers or home users to organize a party or company function by making it easy to order a selection of good food from some of the community’s best restaurants that serve catering size portions and displays.
- A La Carte – Empowers users at home or at work to place an individual meal order for themselves or up to 2,000 individual meals for their co-workers from high quality restaurants in the area.
More than 6,000 companies of all sizes including law, advertising, accounting and consulting firms along with numerous individual consumers have already realized great value through DiningIn’s services. Now, using the new @ Home and @ Work applications, customers can further simplify the process of offering high-quality meals to their employees, clients or guests.
“It’s human nature that people are happier and more productive on a full stomach, and DiningIn’s Prix Fixe offering has allowed us to offer our employees delivery from several fun, high-quality restaurants like Cheesecake Factory and California Pizza Kitchen to satisfy their appetites,” said Denise Famolare, hospitality coordinator at Bromberg & Sunstein Law Firm. “Our office works long hours so we place dinner orders nightly and use DiningIn’s catering service for important business meetings. It’s a great benefit that our employees and clients really appreciate.”
DiningIn currently delivers two million meals each year from more than 600 high-quality restaurants, including neighborhood favorites, popular boutique restaurants, and national brands such as California Pizza Kitchen, Maggiano’s Little Italy and The Cheesecake Factory.
“The Cheesecake Factory is a longtime DiningIn partner and it certainly has helped us take our meals to new and exciting places,” said Mark Mears, chief marketing officer at The Cheesecake Factory. “Our reputation for quality food and service is important and we want our guests to have that same experience whether they’re dining in our restaurants or in their own home. The corporate-delivery market has tremendous potential for The Cheesecake Factory and we are excited about working with our trusted partner to strengthen our presence there as well.”
“We’ve been delivering to homes and offices for more than 20 years, and we’ve always prided ourselves on listening to customer feedback,” said Michael Hackel, CEO of DiningIn. “We listened to our customers when they asked for more advanced functionality and the new applications launched today were created as a direct result of our mission to make our customers’ everyday lives easier.”
DiningIn’s new offerings are available immediately for corporate or individual customers in Boston, Chicago, Dallas and Philadelphia.
About DiningIn
DiningIn is the nation’s premier restaurant delivery service. For more than 20 years, residential and corporate customers have turned to DiningIn for its high standards and dedication to delivering quality meals from their favorite restaurants. Through partnerships with popular boutique restaurants, neighborhood favorites, and national brands such as California Pizza Kitchen, The Cheesecake Factory, Stephen Starr Restaurants and Lettuce Entertain You Restaurants, the company delivers more than 2 million meals per year to customers in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, and Philadelphia. For more information, or to place your order, visit http://www.DiningIn.com.
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