Fooala
Bringing the convenience of on-demand
e-commerce to the restaurant dining experience
Competition in the crowded restaurant market is evolving as the Internet enables restaurant patrons to explore more options and share recommendations with peers. Despite the large number of potential customers actively seeking to patronize restaurants online, very few restaurants are web-enabled.
For restaurants of all sizes, Fooala makes next-generation web and e-commerce technologies accessible, empowering them to stay competitive by connecting with their customers, developing a better dining experience, and building more profitable relationships. For consumers, Fooala enables them to connect with restaurants and make reservations or place orders through a unified user experience.
At the heart of Fooala is a robust transaction network that provides convergence of consumer-facing e-commerce interfaces to restaurant point-of-sale systems through a common interface -- implemented by Fooala own portals and third-party applications created on the developer platform. A rich social experience built on user-generated content and semantic analysis of syndicated and spidered content, Fooala local search portal is a revolutionary step forward from today's business listings-based directories.
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Fooala Team:
- David Chen (founder) -
Information Systems and Human-Computer Interaction,Carnegie Mellon - Moses Lee (founder) -
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University - Zhe Chen (founder) -
Bioinformatics Engineering and Commerce, University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia) - Woolim Josh Chang (founder) -
Business Administration, Tepper, Carnegie Mellon - Todd Eichel (founder) -
Information Systems Management, Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon - Sam Tetruashvili (developer) -
Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon - Kevin Yeh (developer) -
Information Systems and Human-Computer Interaction,Carnegie Mellon - Zachary Cancio (developer) -
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University - Annie Teng (designer) -
Communication Design and Human-Computer Interaction,Carnegie Mellon - Nancy Lao (e-commerce support) -
Industrial Design, Carnegie Mellon - Ian Anderson (e-commerce support) -
Physics, Carnegie Mellon - Professor Larry Heimann ( faculty advisor)
Teaching Professor, Information Systems Carnegie Mellon
Fooala in the news:
- April 1, 2009 - Pop City
Finally! Fooala puts restaurants and menus and ordering online - March 18, 2009 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Big ideas meld into businesses. Fooala Probe Featured
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