UrbanPiper Blog

How To Build A Strong Restaurant Brand | A Mini-guide

Building a strong restaurant brand can be the key to unlocking your sales potential. In a market as competitive as the restaurant business, brand building helps you customers remember you uniquely.

Customer Success

5 Reasons Your Restaurant Needs A Direct Online Food Ordering System

A direct online food ordering system can be the key to unlock the potential of your restaurant. Here are 5 ways in which a direct online ordering system can help increase your restaurant’s profits.

Customer Success

5 Restaurant Inventory Management Hacks You Can't Miss

Inventory management refers to the process of tracking the raw materials used by a business right from purchase to sale. The goal is to ensure that at all points of time, there is enough stock at the seller's disposal to meet the demand of its product.

engineering

Mongo pipelines primer

Build a solid understanding of Mongo aggregation pipelines and pipeline stages.

Company

Restaurant Management Platform UrbanPiper Raises $24 Million In Series B Funding

UrbanPiper is happy to announce the successful completion of its Series B round of funding. UrbanPiper, a one-stop restaurant management platform, raised $24 million in Series B funding led by existing investors Sequoia Capital India and Tiger Global, and new investors Swiggy and Zomato.

Product

Are your kitchen operations slow and chaotic?

In their early days, Mcdonald's stood apart from their competitors, because their orders were ready in 30 seconds instead of 30 minutes. Are you struggling to get such speed and efficiency? UrbanPiper's kitchen display system, the "COOKBOOK" streamlines your kitchen operations and ushers in speed!

engineering

MongoDB cookbook

Familiarise yourself with basics of MongoDB as we start our journey into understanding the support for aggregations in Mongo.

Industry Trends

Top Marketing Campaigns of Deliveroo, Just Eat, and Uber Eats in the UK

Food delivery apps in the United Kingdom have been winning our hearts with some amazing ad campaigns over the past couple of years. Below is a list of some of our favorite ad campaigns from Deliveroo, Just Eat, and Uber Eats.

engineering

Dockerizing a Python web application

Understanding essential Docker concepts like Docker networks, named volumes and compose files by building a Python web application.

Customer Success

The 12-Minute Guide to Opening a Restaurant in The UK

This guide is all you will need to consider while opening a restaurant, whether it is a cafe, dine-in or takeaway.

Product

Are you leaving money on the table?

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