It’s been almost a year since we closed DNA Pizza’s Grubhub account, but we’re back online now with Chow Now. It seems to be working ok so far?

The restaurant’s hours are still tied to the nightclub, which means we only accept orders while DNA Lounge is open. This means, roughly, every Friday, Saturday and Monday from 8pm or 9pm to 2am; and other days of the week as the event calendar dictates.

So give it a try tonight! In… just about 4 hours.

This time the online ordering is (finally!) more directly integrated with our point of sale. With every other ordering system we’ve used in the past, when someone placed an order, it would show up on a customized, locked-down tablet provided by the outside company, and our cashiers would have to notice it ping and then transcribe the order into our system. But this new one talks to our POS directly, so it goes in like every other cashier order.

This means that it finally makes sense for an in-person customer to use it as a “skip the line” order – you can place your order from the dance floor or the sidewalk, and then in a few minutes, head on over to the restaurant for pick-up. So that’s kind of cool.

Anyway, wow do I have some things to say about online ordering, but writing that up has completely gotten away from me, so I’ll save that for a later post.

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