UrbanPiper Blog

Are you leaving money on the table, when selling on platforms like Swiggy and Zomato?

Only way to know for sure, is to reconcile payouts from platforms, with reports from your Point of sale and Banker, but it's an extremely challenging task. We are working on a robust, fully automated reconciliation solution, coming out on Atlas in 2022 Q1. Read on and sign up for early access.

engineering

Getting started with Clickhouse

Clickhouse is a blazingly fast OLAP system with insanely low latency and high throughput. Let's get started with it in this post.

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Decode Spotlight - Chiraag Paul, Koshe Kosha

Koshe Kosha is known for its ‘’Bangaliyana’’ - a feeling and an emotion that depicts love for Bengal. People know Bengal for sweets and fish but there is much more to it and that is depicted from the wide range of menu at Koshe Kosha.

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Decode Spotlight - Amuleek Singh Bijral, Founder, Chai Point

Chai Point has developed to become India's largest organized Chai store, offering a perfect blend of chai made with fresh ingredients to refresh working professionals. It has become the most popular Chai brand, with over 300,000 cups sold every day.

Product

Goodbye Quint, Hello Atlas

With UrbanPiper powering thousands of restaurants all over the world and an ever-increasing number of daily active users, we can fairly say that we are way out of our days of figuring out the product-market fit. Now it's time to take on bigger challenges and to create something brand new

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Decode Spotlight - Kaushik Roy, Founder, Biryani by Kilo

In the fourth episode of Decode, Kaushik Roy, Founder & CEO of the much-loved biryani chain Biryani By Kilo spoke to us about his journey. We take a closer look at the man behind the brand in this blog.

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Decode Spotlight - Sagar Daryani, Founder, Wow! Momo

Building an empire from scratch takes a lot of time, sweat, tears and obviously, effort. As they say, Rome was not built in a day. In the 8th episode of Decode, we speak to Sagar Daryani, Founder and CEO of WOW! Momo, who proves to be a perfect example for this saying.

Industry Trends

5 Advantages of Using QR Codes in Your Restaurant

QR codes are ubiquitous in restaurants today. They enable almost the entire experience - from scanning the menu to making payments. Restaurateurs have had to learn how to truly leverage the capabilities of this technology to meet the demands of modern-day customers.

Industry Trends

Key Trends Shaping the Food and Beverage Industry in 2021

Technology presents unique solutions for restaurants to differentiate themselves and for owners to run their businesses more efficiently. Technology and innovation are helping restaurants to not just survive, but thrive, in this new connected and contactless era.

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Decode Spotlight -Ankeet Dadu, Partner, Anand Sweets

According to Ankeet, the brand retains its uniqueness in the market by using high-quality raw materials and reducing manual efforts to increase the quality of its sweets.

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Decode Spotlight - Bert Mueller, Founder, California Burrito

Innovation has never stopped for Bert. Currently, he is focusing on cultivating ingredients such as Hass Avocado - a specialty avocado and a certain type of chilly required for preparing Mexican dishes.

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Decode Spotlight - Nikhil Gupta and Abhijit Gupta, Founders of The Pizza Bakery

Both the brothers believe that creating a great experience around the product is imperative to survive in this industry and scale further. And that is exactly what The Pizza Bakery’s focus is on.

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Decode Spotlight -Gautam Balijepalli, Founder, Kouzina Food Tech

Gautam Balijepalli, with a strong entrepreneurial background, believed in the notion of successful customer experience. He used technology as a bridge to connect and engage with his customers.

Industry Trends

Meme Wars: Swiggy's Top 10

Most brand managers across the world believe building an audience is as crucial as building sales. Apart from traditional marketing, social media presence has become one of the fundamental brand-building strategies for any company in any domain.

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Decode Spotlight - Jayanth Narayanan, Founder, Mani’s Dum Biryani

Passion always leads to success. Since he was in elementary school, Jayanth had dreamed of starting his own food business. He claims that he pursued engineering and an MBA to satisfy societal expectations in order to obtain a high-paying job but he was always an entrepreneur at heart.

Customer Success

8 SEO Tips for your Restaurant's Website

People need to be able to discover you online if you want to keep your restaurant full every day – or if you want to increase your delivery and carry-out business. You must rapidly win them over with an excellent online experience and motivate them to take action once they have found you.

Customer Success

How can HUB help your business?

UrbanPiper's Hub is a powerful solution that helps in managing multiple food delivery aggregators on one single platform. It makes the work of a restaurant manager seamless by streamlining the day-to-day operations - from receiving an online order to delivering it to the customer.

Company

Successful Menu Management - How Satellite Prime Can Help Your Restaurant

Menu management helps restaurant professionals to develop or invent new recipes, provide nutritional data on food ingredients, determine the price for an item, and address food labeling requirements. The menu is also termed as the “the driver” of a restaurant operation.

Meme Wars: Zomato's Top 10

Zomato makes you feel like it's someone you know, someone with whom you have a lot in common. They find hilarious ways to use trending topics & drive hungry customers to order from their app.

Getting Started

How To Choose A POS For Your Restaurant?

There are many things to consider while you are choosing a POS system for your business. But it is important to know that there is more than one type of POS and they all serve different purposes.

Industry Trends

7 Tips For Restaurant Employees To Deal With Stress

Work-related stress exists in every field. The Restaurant Industry is no different. Every staff member has something to stress over to ensure smooth operations, and this has been accepted as a way of life, almost a work hazard some would say. So how do we deal with this?

engineering

Integrate native Android & iOS SDK’s in a react-native app (bridging)

How to create a "bridge" between a React Native app and a native iOS/Android SDK

Industry Trends

10 Ways To Up Your Restaurant’s Social Media Game!

Running a restaurant today needs you to focus on all aspects if you want to be successful. Make sure you create a strong social and digital presence and engage with your followers to convert them to paying customers.

An Open Letter To Delivery Riders

Delivery contributes to a massive chunk of revenues for aggregators such as Zomato, who employ over 200,000 riders! These riders play a massive role in ensuring these aggregators, and therefore the F&B industry, continues to survive.

Industry Trends

Top Indian Food Bloggers on Social Media

As customers are becoming smarter, brands need to respond with more intelligent marketing by understanding consumers, identifying opportunities, and then proactively addressing the needs and interests of their customers.