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Franklin Junction partners with Casper to bring American restaurant brands to Europe

GHENT, 14-Mar-2023 — /EuropaWire/ — Franklin Junction partners with Casper, a modern day food hall offering 100% virtual orders for takeout and delivery, to expand iconic American restaurant brands to Benelux and France. Franklin Junction founder, Rishi Nigam, and Casper founder, Matthias Laga, presented their expansion plans at the recent International Ghost Kitchen Conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Franklin Junction has been named to Fast Company’s prestigious annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2023 as they continue to deliver innovative technology solutions for restaurants in the US and now abroad. Leading the way with their proprietary Host Kitchen® model, Franklin Junction has grown into a full suite of solution services to empower restaurant success in the digital age. In 2022, Franklin Junction introduced its AI-powered digital food hall that allows consumers to order food and earn loyalty from multiple concepts in a single transaction and delivery.

“As industry leaders driving the growth of American restaurant brands in new markets, we have received a tremendous amount of interest to expand to the European market for a few years now,” shares Franklin Junction CEO Rishi Nigam. â€œAfter getting to know Matthias and the entire Casper team over the past year, we have full confidence that they are a trusted partner to expand globally with and we’re thrilled to bring iconic American fare to new diners across Europe.”

Casper launched in Ghent, Belgium and raised €5 million for their Series A in 2022 with the objective of creating a hybrid restaurant and food hall model where customers can walk-in to place orders for takeout or order through digital channels for delivery. In just a short time, Casper has expanded to over 10 locations in Belgium, the Netherlands, and France, with an expansion goal of 50 kitchens by 2024.

“We’re very excited to partner with Franklin Junction and begin by introducing Nathan’s Famous’ authentic New York flavors to our European customers in the coming weeks,” states Matthias Laga, Co-founder and CEO of Casper. â€œFranklin Junction uniquely understands restaurants, multi-concept food halls, and restaurant eCommerce and their proprietary processes are extremely virtuous for all stakeholders.”

ABOUT FRANKLIN JUNCTION
Franklin Junction is reinventing restaurant eCommerce with a sustainable, profitable approach to digital growth. We offer the first end-to-end platform, unifying eCommerce technology and managed services, so restaurants can win in the digital age. Led by a team of seasoned leaders in restaurant operations, machine learning, and digital marketing, our suite of services includes proprietary technology deployments, third-party governance, omni-channel strategy definition, and full-service eCommerce management. Originators of the Host Kitchen® model for take-out/delivery expansion, Franklin Junction has empowered restaurant operations worldwide to achieve sustained profitable growth with fewer headaches and wasted resources.

ABOUT CASPER
Casper was founded in March 2020 by Matthias Laga (1986), Zhong Xu (1985), CEO/co-founder Deliverect and Peter Van Praet (1988), CEO/founder Bavet. Casper is a hybrid delivery and take out-only restaurant (a so-called ghost kitchen or dark kitchen) that sells 10 quality virtual brands for different tastes – reasonably priced and sustainably packaged. The chain of hybrid kitchens is currently active in Ghent, Antwerp, Leuven, Brussels, Liège and Bruges, and partners with the marketplaces Just Eat Takeaway, Deliveroo and UberEats to deliver their delicious food. As of Q3, Casper will also be present in multiple locations in the Netherlands (The Hague, Rotterdam, Eindhoven, Utrecht) and France (Lille). Luxembourg will follow in Q4. By Q2, 2024 Casper plans to operate out of 50 international locations.

SOURCE: EuropaWire

The Menu Maker Helps Restaurants Offset Food Costs with Online Menu Design

Mauston, WI, March 7, 2015 — /EPR FOOD & BEVERAGE NEWS/ — The Menu Maker announced the launch of their new website, Online Menu Design, an online menu creator for the hospitality industry.

Like the name suggests, Online Menu Design is an online editing tool that allows the end-user to create table tents, menu page inserts and 2-sided menus.

Owner Jane Ogurek says this is a cost effective way for food service providers to offset rising food costs. “Online Menu Design is an easy, economical way to adjust menu prices and to increase sales with in-house marketing,” adding that she has received positive feedback about the professional designs. Duff Dyer of Dyer Graphics said, “As someone with many years of producing menus for some of the country’s most successful operations, my hat is off to you for a job extremely well done.”

Similar to using Microsoft Word, the end-user chooses a layout, a background, and enters their text; they can also add photos and highlight higher-profit or signature items. “We’re extremely pleased to offer Online Menu Design. It’s a great way to stay current with food trends and food costs. I believe this is the best online editing tool on the market!” Ms. Ogurek said.

Online Menu Design and The Menu Maker specialize in menu design and provide marketing materials to the hospitality industry. For more information, please visit www.onlinemenudesign.co or www.themenumaker.com.

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Jane Ogurek
jane@themenumaker.com

The Menu Maker announced the launch of their new website, Online Menu Design, an online menu creator for the hospitality industry
The Menu Maker announced the launch of their new website, Online Menu Design, an online menu creator for the hospitality industry

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Bite2Eat.com Makes Ordering Food a Social Experience

Social Media start-up Bite2Eat Corporation announced today the launch of Bite2Eat.com, a restaurant directory that makes it easy to order from restaurants using on-line menus. Whether a restaurant is looking for a free, no-hassle way to establish an on-line presence, or simply wants to supplement existing efforts, Bite2Eat.com is a quick and risk-free way to attract new on-line customers and encourage existing ones to continue ordering.

“Restaurant owners have to focus on food quality, preparation and sales — they don’t want to spend the time or money figuring out how to manage getting orders on-line,” explained CEO Jay Bailey. “We make it painless to offer customers on-line menus — with no startup costs or ongoing fees — for absolutely any restaurant that takes delivery or pickup orders. It’s essentially free marketing with only a pay-for-performance cost.” Bite2Eat earns a small commission for each order sent by fax to a restaurant.

Co-founder and CTO Marc Fischman added, “The state of the economy means that ordering in is a great and inexpensive way to share an evening with friends. You can experience exotic world flavors without leaving your house. And it actually makes this the ideal time for us to offer owners a way to generate business without having to spend a lot on dubious marketing or cutting prices painfully.”

Bite2Eat.com complements the way a restaurant works without requiring equipment installations or dedicated computers. The Bite2Eat system can transmit orders by fax, by e-mail, or by an automated phone system that reads the order in a natural-sounding voice.

Bite2Eat.com Buddy Orders provide the ability for a customer to initiate an order and then invite colleagues, friends or family members to join that order. Each “Buddy” clicks on the menu’s items, and a single order is transmitted to the restaurant. “This is just the beginning,” explained Bailey. “We are planning a number of features that help foster the ‘social’ element of restaurant ordering. We hope to add an element of fun for the customer and, as a result, larger orders for our restaurants.”

Restaurant fans who would like the option of ordering from their favorite eateries can submit the restaurant information at http://www.bite2eat.com/restaurants/add or download, print and hand the restaurant owner a single-page, fax-ready form found at http://www.bite2eat.com/pages/spread_the_word. Restaurant owners can sign up at http://www.bite2eat.com/owners.  

About the Company
Privately-funded Bite2Eat.com was founded by Marc Fishman and Jay Bailey in the summer of 2008. The team at Bite2Eat.com aims to make interacting with restaurants across the country as convenient and natural as the on-line banking or shopping you’ve become accustomed to. Ordering on-line – especially using our Buddy Orders with a group of friends or colleagues – is easy, quick and more relaxing than ordering by phone using a paper take-out menu.

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