What really happens when a customer uses Dimmi?
Is your Restaurant Online Booking System sharing your Customer Contact Details? Most Restaurant owners understand the importance of their customer database, in fact, for many restaurants, their customer database is the secret sauce to increase customer numbers during...
More Dirty Tricks by Dimmi – They really don’t like our Free Online Restaurant Booking System!
We had a customer call us late on a Friday afternoon 2 weeks ago. He was very upset because he had just received a large invoice from Dimmi, over $100. He looked at his website and he found that his Book A Table button was not working, but the Dimmi booking button...
6 marketing scams that Restaurants need to avoid
There are a lot of marketing sharks out there preying on time poor restaurant owners, so we have written a guide to help you navigate the waters to work out if a marketing idea is a scam or not. Here is our list of Top 5 Marketing Scams targeting Restaurants that you...
Restalo closes in Australia
Industry rumours abound that Restalo, after raising $10,000,000 to enter the Australian market has shut up shop and plans to manage the accounts that it already has from Spain. Further investigations would indicate that this is the case. A number of people list...
Restaurant adds 93 contacts to their database, books out 351 seats, saves over $400, cuts 4 ½ hours of time on the phone and does it all with a free piece of software and does it within 24 hours!
A new customer signed up with Book A Table recently and yesterday was a pretty good day for them. By moving across to Book A Table, they have been able to enjoy all of the benefits of taking bookings online. You can imagine how busy the restaurant would have been...
The Future of Online Bookings in Australia
Are you one of the 2,000 restaurants who every day has their customer details shared? Are you one of the 2,000 restaurants who PAYS every day to have their customer details shared? 2014 is going to be a big year in the online booking segment of the hospitality...
Is Dimmi turning into Groupon by Stealth?
We have discussed previously what happens when a customer books on your website through Dimmi and the emails that Dimmi send out to your customers once they make a booking with your restaurant. Is this the start of something bigger? Dimmi’s business model is to charge...
New Restaurant Diary Feature added – Free for our customers
Ever since we introduced our Book A Restaurant feature, which we offered free to our web marketing toolkit customers, we have been looking for ways to improve on it. Book A Table has grown to Australia’s largest booking system that is free for customers as well as...
A comparison between Book A Table, Dimmi and Book A Restaurant – which one is best for your restaurant?
Many restaurants are either looking for the capability to take bookings online or trying to determine if the online booking system they are using is right for their business. There are a lot of choices out there and knowing the pros & cons of each system enables...
What happens when your customers book through Dimmi?
Some restaurants are not aware of what happens when one of their customers makes a booking on their website so we thought we would go through the process so that everyone understands the process and the implications for your restaurant. A few weeks ago a colleague...
Is your online booking system the biggest threat to your customer loyalty?
A customer comes into your restaurant with 3 friends, they look at the menu and order some interesting things and some old favorites, along with a couple of beers or a bottle of wine. The food and drink come out and everyone has a great time. After desserts, the bill...
Cut the Price of taking online bookings for your Restaurant today!
Taking bookings for your restaurant up until now has either been through an email form on your website where you always had to get back to the customer and ensure that you weren’t overbooked or you could use one of the online booking companies who charged per seat or...