The only way for a lazy man like me to eat
In New York, life moves by pretty quickly. Sometimes going to the grocery store or even spending the time to cook is a huge burden. Enter SeamlessWeb, a web service that connects a pool of restaurants to an online POS.
Usually the delivery people who come by my building flood it with new takeout menus. Yesterday, I was about to order from one place when I saw the URL for SeamlessWeb on their brochure. Once I went to the site I was pleasantly surprised. Basically SeamlessWeb has done the leg work of getting a large set of restaurants in Manhattan and a couple other urban centers and created a system that will show you a menu from these restaurants, take payment, and ping the restaurant with the order. It is rather seamless and there are a number of restaurants with additional discounts as well. You can include gratuity and basically make the entire transaction cashless.
What interested me more than tasty food (hard to believe, I know) was the platform. Enabling traditional brick and mortar establishments from a similar industry with a useful platform. I’m going to stew on it for a bit and thank SeamlessWeb for really fast food + an idea seed
Oh and the one criticism I do have is their name is not indicative of their service. They should probably rethink that a bit.
