Over the past few months a dozen companies have sprung up offering to build customized iPhone apps for restaurants, and it seems like more are springing up every day. http://www.appcoco.com http://www.appdar.com/restaurants http://backpocketmenu.com http://www.moglumedia.com/rbn http://www.99mobileapps.com http://www.blueshoemobile.com http://mymenumobile.com http://www.mobilaurus.com/restaurants.htm http://www.biznessapps.com We briefly toyed with this idea at ChompStack, before realizing that it was a really terrible idea

We have been busy improving ChompStack’s restaurant mobile website builder over the past month and I’m excited to announce some of our most recent additions: Image Galleries You can now upload photos of your restaurant that will automatically be placed into an image gallery on your mobile website. Here’s what the gallery looks like: Multiple

Research company Compete has released the results of its first-quarter 2010 Smartphone Intelligence Survey, which studies how consumers are using iPhones, BlackBerrys, Android devices, and other smartphones: The survey found consumers increasingly rely on their mobile phones to search for retailers. Nearly one in three smartphone owners has called or stopped into a local business

Over the past few months we’ve been talking to many restaurants about their mobile marketing strategy. Many of you simply want to upgrade your existing websites to add support for mobile phones like the iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry. We have heard your feedback and have been working hard to build a service that suits your

We are always on the lookout for innovative companies building new types of restaurant technology. Every few weeks we will collect a roundup of the most interesting restaurant technology news and share it with you. This week, it’s the iPad that is making the headlines. Urbanspoon Wants To Challenge OpenTable With Its RezBook IPad App

I recently read a very entertaining thread on a restaurant technology forum which was basically a discussion of whether or not open source software is appropriate for the restaurant industry. It began when one poster touted the merits of his newly minted open source Point-of-Sale (Java, enterprise, yadda yadda yadda). For his efforts he was

Over the past few weeks there has been some talk of companies building restaurant point of sale software to run on the iPad. This sounds fun, but I’m not sure anyone who has worked in an actual restaurant environment would consider it a good idea. The iPad was not designed for a restaurant environment and

Welcome to Back of House, ChompStack’s blog. We make iPhone apps for restaurants and we’re interested in everything to do with food and technology, be it iPhone and iPad apps, Point-of-Sale software, websites, online ordering, KDSs, and all sorts of other magical acronyms. We’ve worked in quite a few restaurants ourselves, in almost every position,