Twitter creator creates new payment system

I want to update you guys about new technologies and services for brick n’ mortar merchants.  Twitter creator, Jack Dorsey new project “Square” changes up how restaurants or any store can process credit card payments.  I was a little unsure what this service was until watching the video below:

Simply every participating vendor gets a mobile device, right now the iphone/itouch with a credit card reader attached to it.  The customers instead of having to accept a receipt he/she can ask for it to be email to them.  (great for the vendor, to be collecting emails so later they can send monthly promotions to those customers.) At the same time, its counting the amount of times the customer comes to your store, so you can easily give deals to returning customers.

Hopefully the venture works out because it looks like a promising idea, and it obviously got the right people backing it,even before its official launch they are valuing the business at $40 million.

It yourself updated via TechCrunch

http://squareup.com/

Civilization Restaurant Opens

Civilization is one of Gainesville's newest restaurants. They recently opened up in the building that was formerly occupied by second street bakery. They serve a selective mix of great dishes from around the world and offer a pretty good vegetarian selection as well.

To check out their current menu and more visit
http://www.menuwall.com/fl/gainesville/civilization/874

MenuWall Gets Cleaned Up Layout

To steal a line from one of my favorite automobile manufactures we have taken another step in our endless pursuit of perfection with a cleaned up website.  

To check it out click here the link below

http://www.menuwall.com/

Most of the changes were aesthetic but I think that people will find the site nicer to use now.

Menu Wall now on Facebook

You can now join MenuWall's FB group. We opted for a group for now but once this summers expansion comes online we will have a fan page too. So join our group now. http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=104647066665&ref=mf

Upcoming soon
1. Menuwall is getting a new layout making it easier for user's to submit info.
2. A contest to win $100 more info soon. . . .

Boca Fiesta Grand Opening!

Ok so actually the grand opening was Monday but Gainesville just got its first west coast style taco shop, Boca Fiesta. It's downtown in the sun center in the former location of Thai Fusion Cafe. They use a lot of organic and vegetarian products in their tacos and have brought one of the first Fish Tacos in the region.

Check out Boca Fiesta at
http://www.menuwall.com/fl/gainesville/boca-fiesta/820

MenuWall Joins Twitter

I admittedly am new to twitter but think it will be the perfect tool for MenuWall. Every time a restaurant opens or closes I will tweet it. Letting anyone who is interested be on top of everything that happens in the local dining scene.

Follow us at http://twitter.com/menuwall
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Karma Cream Opens!

So after months of wondering what exactly would be coming in the mysteriously covered up site on west university Karma Cream has opened.
Karma Cream is an ice-cream shop which gets as many of its ingredients fair trade as possible. (beyond coffee vanilla ect) They also use recycled plastic spoons and offer vegan ice cream options.


For more Info
Karma Ice Cream in Gainesville FL.
http://www.menuwall.com/fl/gainesville/karma-cream/812

The Jones Eastside Gets a Menu

This past week JRameau, our programmer in chief, added a "feedback" tool on MenuWall. It's that feedback button that floats on the bottom right corner of every page.(this is in addition to not instead of the "report it" button)

Almost immediately two people contacted us about the Jones Eastside not having a menu. I put up the Jones Eastside Menu today. For those of you who haven't been it's a local family owned place that serves homemade healthy food with a concious. (meaning using as much locally grown and organic produce as possible as well as fair traid coffee, ect)

Thanks everybody that has been using the "feedback" tool and visiting Menuwall its really helping keep us the most comprehensive and up to date guide on the net.

The Jones EastSide
www.menuwall.com

Updates: Category Heaven

This week I implemented two small but critical updates to the interface.  Many might have figured out Gainesville doesn’t have any Amish restaurants, so why would Amish pop up on the left Category bar.  Issues my friends, which are resolved, now only the categories corresponding to the city are shown.  If you wanted know, Sarasota has a strong Amish community with several Amish style restaurants.

The second update is better illustrated by the image shown to the left, whenever you are on a Restaurant page, the categories of that restaurant are easily found where they should be, on the category bar.

• Related Link:
• Amish Restaurants in Sarasota, Fl

 

101 Downtown Gainesville ads Brunch

Hey

To those of you who like a nice sunday brunch Gainesville has one more option.
101 Downtown now offers brunch. MW has not made a trip over to visit the brunch yet but will soon for a brief description.

Untill then here is a link their menu www.menuwall.com/menus/643
And their MW Page http://www.menuwall.com/fl/gainesville/101-downtown/124

MenuWall Gets A Front Page

So this has been a longtime coming, today we put up a new "Front Front" page which allows you to navigate between cities. As always we are still testing and adapting so let us know how it works out for you. Andrew@menuwall.com
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JR joins the blog

I am the main programmer/web designer for Menuwall. We are currently embarking on the next level of Menuwall and Andrew couldn't have state it better with his last post, "Moving on Up."

Below is a teaser of what I am currently working on and it should be implemented fully sometime this week.

Moving on UP!

Our alexa site ranking is now 351,090. Menuwall.com continues to set a new record every week. Thanks to everybody who visits the site and has linked in!

MW Visits "Big Burger" in Gainesville

Big Burger Home of the 1lb Burger opened on Friday Feb 6th becoming Gainesville's newest restaurant. The spot is open late so it caters both to the downtown lunch crowd and Gainesville's famous 3am party crowds. They serve solid Burgers and do fastfood with a homemade touch.

Check out their menu by clicking on the link below.
http://www.menuwall.com/fl/gainesville/big-burger/639

MW Visits The Green Mango

Earlier this week I visited one of Gainesville's newest restaurants The Green Mango.

They serve homemade Indian food and are 100% vegetarian.

Here is a link to their info http://www.menuwall.com/fl/gainesville/green-mango/635

The Green Mango Gainesville, Fl

Gainesville's Kosher Restaurant SaBaBa

Today we visited Gainesville's new Kosher Restaurant SaBaBa. Outside of Hillel this is the only place in town to get Kosher food and its all freshly homemade.

To check out SaBaBa Kosher Restaurant and Deli click here.

http://www.menuwall.com/fl/gainesville/sababa/617

MenuWall WIndow Decals Now Available for Restaurants

MenuWall Testing Ad's

As you can see in the image above we teamed up with Sun Center Kabob House in our beta testing and have our first ads in our own advertising system. After a short period of beta testing we will official launch Menuwall Advertising. If you are a restaurant owner and would like to arrange a deal to be part of our beta network before we start charging email me @ andrew@menuwall.com

MenuWall Moving On Up!

So after the site redesign (which is still under way) MW's Alexa ratings increased again moving on up to 405,121. This affirms our stats showing the site steadily growing. We have also been getting more user input recently which is helping us maintain our accuracy. PS MW Sarasota coming soon!
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Menuwall Growth

Since I check it everyday I don't usually notice the growth but MW's traffic is up 138% this month even with the holidays. Thanks everybody who has started using the site!