(2012-08-24) Group Food Order Aggregation Concept

Brain Fart Of The Day: tool for aggregating food orders.

Target end-customers: office-lunch-admins, families (e.g. the husband).

Target retailers: McDonalds, StarBucks, etc.

Concept:

• each individual user has an account, profiles, favorites-to-order, etc.
• group decides they're about to "do a run" to a particular place
• each individual places order (often using their favorites), pays online
• individuals pass orders to a batch
• order gets forwarded to retailer
• retailer makes and packs up order
  • maybe delivers!
  • else someone goes to pick up the order

Benefits:

• happier customers: get what they want
• happier admins: don't have to deal with getting each person's hyper-detailed order right, don't have to wait between order and take-away, don't have to parcel out change, etc.
• happier retailers - reduce staff expense, increase throughput, more repeat business

I don't think you could build this as a 3rd party system, it would need to be built by each BigCo to tie into their store-specific menu and pricing variations.

But for smaller operations, I could see the POS makers making this an add-on.