We spoke to Anca, one of our top developers to find out why she loves working here, what her day is like and how Krumpet the office pug handles the daily standing ovations the team gets at 5pm!

It seems hard to take a ‘virtual conference’ as seriously as one where you’ve had to travel somewhere, wear a name tag, and drink bad coffee with strangers. But the quality of the presentations is what really matters, and the presenters lined up were all well-known figures so we thought it seemed a good opportunity to hear some new ideas...

We can talk about our work and services all we want, but nothing speaks volumes as strongly as customer feedback. Over the years we have established some strong working relationships with numerous restaurants as we watched them grow and develop.

As a young, but quickly-growing startup, we embrace change and always try to improve on how we run our business by trying out new things. One of our means of doing it are our OKRs. OKRs, meaning Objectives and Key Results, are a method of tracking and defining shared objectives and their outcomes.

Everybody knows what a good Christmas get-together is all about: great people, tasty drinks and amazing food; which is the exact recipe we decided to follow for our Christmas party 2015.

At FOODit we’ve been working with independent restaurants long enough to know that those that don’t keep on top of their marketing are often far less likely to survive.

With the help of our most successful restaurants and takeaways we’ve identified some simple steps that independents can take to build loyalty in their local area - making the most from their website, their Facebook site, and their existing customers to grow their sales.

We have just released some great new features for our restaurant websites, including dish photos on menus! FOODit customers - take a look at the list and contact us if you would like them on your site.

A restaurant EPOS is a valuable asset for any food business, old or new, large or small. With new technologies making systems cheaper and more flexbile than ever, the benefits that a good EPOS can offer owners and managers are well worth serious consideration.

You have a lovely restaurant, serving great food. The front window looks inviting, and you have your phone number clearly displayed there. So why do you also need to have a professional website?

What kinds of developments in restaurant technology are happening in 2015? We’ve taken a look at some key areas of and it’s clear that technology is playing a bigger and bigger role in restaurant operations.

In the competitive marketplace that restaurants and takeaways share, keeping customers happy is of the utmost importance. Unsurprisingly most restaurants will say that they aim to do this. But how can they be sure they are getting it right?

When trying to decide whether an app or mobile website is the best option for your restaurant, cost is of course a very important factor. However, other aspects such as functionality and effectiveness are equally crucial to avoid making a costly mistake.

Have you ever wondered about the importance of placing particular consonants and vowels in particular places? No? Neither did we - that’s how we ended up with the name FOODit. However, for our food discovery website CentralDish, we dived into some serious linguistic, phonetic and etymological research.

When we found out that Joel Spolsky, the founder of Stack Overflow and Trello, was coming to speak at the Barbican as part of the London Tech Week, we knew we wanted to be there. We’ve been fans of Spolsky here at FOODit for a while and read his Smart and Gets Things Done as part of our book club.

There’s no doubt that more and more people expect to be able to book tables online at their local restaurants – and the easier it is to do, the better. If your restaurant offers table dining, no matter how few tables you have, this service is a great way to save time on the phone and keep your customers happy.

So here at FOODit we’ve been hard at work adding table bookings to our restaurant websites, and can now proudly announce that this new feature is ready to go!

Offering online ordering on your restaurant’s website can boost sales.

As explained in my earlier post, in summer 2013, I built the same minimum viable product (MVP) three times on three different continents. It was an experiment with a purpose: To evaluate three platforms and three teams at the same time; and to utilize the “lean way” in using validated learning to build my new company’s first product.

I built the same product three times. It wasn’t an act of insanity. It was my way to get my product ready in three weeks.