What happens when internet is not reliable? Read about our OrderHQ™ Smart Food Lockers feature called Temporary Offline Failover that addresses the challenges of intermittent internet loss.
Apex Order Pickup Solutions officially launches its OrderHQ™ Exterior Smart Food Locker at FSTec at booth #503 on the showroom floor at the Gaylord Texan in Grapevine, Texas.
OrderHQ™ smart lockers make it easy for Doherty Enterprises, an Applebee’s® franchisee, to offer quick, secure, and contactless order pickup experiences for DSPs.
Three Ways OrderHQ™ Smart Food Lockers Help Operators
With the growth of off-premises takeout and delivery, efficient order pickup is now a top priority for foodservice operators. Apex Chief Growth Officer Mike Rizzo looks at three ways Apex automated food lockers improve order handoff and provide better pickup experiences for customers and delivery drivers.
Get an early look at our OrderHQ Exterior (coming in 2023.) It lets you give customers and delivery drivers quick, contactless pickup outside, while you reduce crowding in your lobby. And your employees increase throughput by quickly delivering orders through the back of the locker. Visit ApexOrderPickup.com to find out more.
How OrderHQ™ Smart Food Lockers Improve Customer Experience
In today’s challenging foodservice labor environment, operators need to make the most of their employees’ efforts while minimizing wasted steps. Apex CEO Mike Wills explains how smart food lockers help employees focus on what really matters – ensuring food quality and providing the best customer experience.
Today's customers expect lots of choices from their favorite restaurants, including how they order and pay, and whether they eat onsite, order to-go, or get it delivered. Kent Savage discusses how Apex technology helps restaurants meet consumers' high expectations wherever, however, and whenever they choose.
Apex Food Lockers Expand Dining Innovations at University of Arizona
Watch how the University of Arizona uses Apex Smart Food Lockers to offer on-the-go dining choices with pickup in seconds. The campus dining service even uses runners to take orders to locations beyond its standard dining venues.
Apex at the 2022 National Restaurant Association Show
We were happy be back at the 2022 National Restaurant Association Show to introduce our OrderHQ Smart Food Lockers at the Apex and Welbilt booths. Here’s a quick look at some of the highlights!
Apex CEO Mike Wills explains that as the foodservice industry faces shifts in consumer behavior as well as labor models, Apex smart food lockers provide an opportunity to drive out inefficiencies in the back of house and in the customer experience.
Wholesale distributors are more tech-focused than ever, says Apex President and COO Tom Thistleton. They’re responding to the contractor’s need for faster, more efficient services that help them get more done.
Movie-lovers are heading back to the big screen again, with even higher expectations. Apex Chief Growth Officer Mike Rizzo discusses why cinemas are adopting technology to give guests the fast, digital journey they want.
Memphis-based Malco Theatres was using pagers and employee runners to get food orders to customers. Watch how a simple switch to Apex Smart Food Lockers made order pickup easy for guests while Malco saved thousands on pager equipment and labor.
OrderHQ Food Locker Demo: Future-Focused Order Pickup
OrderHQ™ Food Lockers are the smart, efficient way to manage digital order pickup. Watch as Apex Vice President of Global Marketing, Ashley McNamara, demonstrates its two-sided design that lets employees efficiently load orders in the back, while customers and third-party delivery drivers pick up in front in less than 10 seconds. You’ll see how the OrderHQ lockers can operate independently or can be integrated with the existing tech stack to unleash greater efficiency and portfolio-wide data insights.
Elevating the Guest Experience in Sports & Entertainment
People today expect fast, digital experiences wherever they go. Apex CGO Mike Rizzo explains why stadiums, theaters, hotels, and other entertainment venues are investing in digital technologies to deliver better guest experiences all around.
Successful wholesale distributors know that great service is an added value that keeps customers coming back. Apex CEO Mike Wills says helping customers make the best use of their time can be a powerful competitive advantage.
The Value of Smart Pickup Lockers in the Modern Kitchen
When you set a takeout or delivery order on a counter for pickup, you're left totally in the dark. No data, no visibility to what happens next. Apex CTO Ben Savage explains how smart food lockers open up all kinds of data insights that today’s foodservice operations desperately need.
Get the order pickup data you need to optimize back-of-house efficiency, while pickup customers enjoy fast, secure pickup from our OrderHQ food lockers.
Focusing on speed and productivity is driving new revenue at wholesale distributors like Loeb Electric. They chose an automated pickup locker solution from Apex to not only make it more convenient for their teams, but also faster for their customers,. Find out what they learned, and why their customers like it so much.
OrderHQ™ Food Lockers Reduce Labor With Fast, Contactless Order Pickup
OrderHQ™ makes off-premises orders more efficient and profitable. Customers and delivery drivers get fast, contactless pickup at front, while employees easily load orders in back. Meanwhile, you get data visibility to help you optimize across your entire portfolio. With OrderHQ , it’s easy to get the right order to the right customer, every time.
What makes Apex different from other locker companies? Apex CEO Mike Wills explains that our order pickup solutions are powered by advanced software that helps foodservice operators, retailers and wholesale distributors unlock new efficiencies, and improve their customer experience.
Great customer experiences create positive effects for foodservice operators that grow exponentially over time. Apex CEO Mike Wills explains how our smart food pickup lockers help fuel brand growth by increasing customer return rate, ticket size and more.
Watch how HVAC wholesale distributor Johnstone Supply gives contractors fast, self-serve will call, even when their showroom’s closed. Using Apex B2B E-commerce Order Pickup Solutions, they’ve grown online sales and reduced crowding and lines at the service counter.
Watch how intelligent food lockers from Apex take campus dining from good to great at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The dining team added Apex food lockers to their food court to give Grubhub Campus Dining customers fast and easy contactless order pickup.
Using New Technologies To Enable Convenient, Contactless Dining
For many universities, 2020 was The Year of Contactless Dining. As the need for mobile and online ordering increased, dining teams found innovative ways to incorporate new technologies that provide the speed and convenience their guests want. Hear from Andrew Pignataro, Assistant Vice President, Auxiliary Services and George Kuzma, VP of Business Development about how Gourmet Dining introduced contactless food lockers at Rider University to provide contactless pickup and reduce lines and crowding. In addition, they recently partnered with Jersey Mike’s to create an on-campus ghost kitchen at Rider University that expands menu options and minimizes staffing requirements. We also explore how integrated tech stacks are now a key consideration for foodservice programs looking to improve the customer experience and enhance back-of-house efficiency.
How Restaurant Technology Levels the Playing Field
Hear from Apex CTO Ben Savage how foodservice operators can create better experiences for off-premises customers using the data provided by Apex food locker solutions. From more accurate order pickup notifications to more efficient kitchen processes, it can help operators provide the speed, convenience and security customers want.
Using Food Lockers to Manage the Surge of Off-Premises Orders
Discover how food lockers are helping leading restaurant and foodservice brands handle the rapid increase in takeout and delivery orders. With Apex Order Pickup Solutions, they can easily improve speed of service and enhance their customer’s pickup experience, while gaining new operational insights from the data they provide.
Using Order Handoff Data to Improve the Customer Experience
Apex Order Pickup Lockers give operators new data about off-premises order handoff. That helps them gain insights they need to optimize the customer’s order pickup experience., while improve their back-of-house efficiency and reducing costs.
Contactless Order Pickup Solutions give customers and delivery drivers peace of mind with self-serve takeout. And they help restaurants and foodservice operators increase throughput.
How Santikos Entertainment Eliminates Lines with Self-Serve Pickup
Texas theater chain Santikos uses Apex self-serve Order Pick-Up Solutions to give customers faster concessions with no lines – and reduce its labor needs by three to one.
See how our self-serve order pickup solutions help you grow transactions while optimizing labor efficiency, so you can serve more customers, faster. Apex Order Pickup Solutions give customers fast, contactless service that brings them back more often.
Apex Order Pickup Solutions provide real-time visibility of orders to help safeguard food quality and ensure freshness. That ensures a better customer experience and protects your brand’s reputation.
Watch how HVAC wholesale distributor Johnstone Supply gives contractors fast, self-serve will call, even when their showroom’s closed. Using Apex Will Call Solutions, they’ve grown e-commerce sales and reduced crowding and lines at the service counter.
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