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Lunchbox Launches New Catering Platform for Enterprise Restaurants

Lunchbox | March 15, 2023 | Read time : 02:17 min

Lunchbox Launches New Catering Platform for Enterprise

Lunchbox, an emerging provider of modern online ordering systems for restaurants, announced the introduction of Lunchbox Catering 2.1, a reimagined management suite with improved backend features that streamlines the end-to-end guest catering experience.

With 73% of remote enterprises anticipating a return to the office this year, the demand for workplace catering has surged, resulting in a 50% faster growth rate for the catering industry than the restaurant industry as a whole. In response to this industry demand, Lunchbox unveils Catering 2.1, an enterprise catering suite that provides an improved user experience based on functionality.

Deploying the latest management suite, restaurants can streamline an otherwise divided ordering platform, enabling cross-functional cooperation between loyalty and operations. Restaurants will acquire access to the following integrated features with Lunchbox Catering 2.1:

• Order Level Upsells
• Single Site Ordering
• Enhanced Modifiers
• House Accounts
• Call Center Tool
• Custom Operations
• Best-In-Class Reporting

With catered check averages creating larger revenue for restaurants, the Catering 2.1 suite provides innovative features prioritizing cart upsell and checkout success. Backend features include location map pins showing a brand logo, a simple order type option, and an order-ready time display.

George Istfan, CTO of Lunchbox, said, "Restaurants often use one partner for catering and another for their online ordering solution — this results in a siloed solution where the two systems are unable to communicate seamlessly and share data." He added, "Lunchbox is eliminating that silo by building an end-to-end platform that encompasses all of an operator's menus and creates a frictionless guest ordering experience for each channel."

(Source – Cision PR Newswire)

About Lunchbox

Founded in 2019, Lunchbox is an emerging modern online ordering system designed to increase restaurants' online revenue. It enables restaurant chains to take charge of their digital growth strategy with its suite of products specialized in application and web ordering, marketing, guest loyalty, catering, and order aggregation in order to increase revenue and enhance guest engagement. The company has enabled more than 5,000 restaurant locations nationwide, including Firehouse Subs, Clean Juice, Walk On's Sports Bistreaux, Papa Gino's, Clean Juice, and Wings Over.

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