Booking a restaurant online on your mobile.
I'm excited. Today sees the launch of fonefood, a new beta mobile restaurant booking service from lastminute.com.
You want to find or book a restaurant. Nowadays one of the easiest ways to do that is online. You don't need to wait for the restaurant to be open, you don't need the restaurant to answer your call. You can book there and then online and in real-time.
Increasingly though people are taking the internet with them in their pockets and more of us expect to be able to get online anywhere at anytime.
That's what's great about fonefood. You can book tables on the move! You're on the train, you're in a taxi, you're at the airport. Wherever you happen to be it's easy to search and book with your web enabled mobile phone.
fonefood is available at http://m.lastminute.com/fonefood
Try it out. You are given descriptions of nearby restaurants, with currently over a thousand available deals, discounts and promotions. It uses Google Maps to show restaurants near your chosen location. Once you’ve chosen a restaurant there is no need to call, you just book directly on your mobile (for free!) and receive an instant confirmation via SMS. (This is especially handy if you're abroad and don't speak the local language).
It is available in 12 countries and gives users access to over 6,000 restaurants. The restaurant reservations technology is powered by Livebookings Network.
lastminute.com even put a cool little video together on Youtube to market the service....
I love progress!
2 comments:
I live in Cambridge, UK and I tried to use this but it kept saying 'Error' and it only came up with 6 restaurants in Cambridge in total. I've used something which I think is better cause it has most restaurants in Cambridge on it, 'My Type of' have you tried this one? It's only in Cambridge but it's really good www.mytypeof.com
What do you think?
Hi Matt,
MyTypeOf seems to be purely like a listing service with enquiry automation; no real time availabilty search - plus it costs you money to book (50p SMS confirmation). Plus - you need to register - why?
fonefood is free to use and has thousands of restaurants around the UK with real-time availability.
My money is on lastminute.com for now.
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