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March Feature Roundup: 5 New Product Features to Increase Your Revenue Per Cap

From professional sports venues to pop-up drive-ins, we’ve seen venues of significantly different sizes adopt mobile ordering and improve their sales numbers. We believe that the convenience of mobile ordering should be attainable for any location type, specifically through the platform’s customizability and ease-of-use.

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FanFood Featured in Google's 2020 Economic Impact Report

We’re very honored to be featured among the 57 businesses in Google’s 2020 Economic Impact Report. We’re also among the 5 Illinois businesses selected by Google to feature on the state-specific report.

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5 Ways to Improve Your Concession Stand Menu

If there’s one thing we’re certain about this year, it’s that there will be a plethora of uncertainties once live events and sports return. How big will the crowds be? Will customers feel safe enough to make purchases? How should I project my revenue this year?

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3 Things to Consider When Planning For Foodservice Staffing in 2021

Over the last 5 years, one of the top questions that our new venue partners ask us on the Customer Success team at FanFood is “how much additional labor will I need to operate FanFood?”

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Yakima Valley Pippins to Provide Enhanced Concessions Experience with FanFood Mobile Ordering This Season For Fan Safety and Convenience

YAKIMA, Wash. – The Yakima Valley Pippins, a collegiate wood bat baseball team in the West Coast League, has partnered with FanFood, a technology platform that provides in-venue food and beverage mobile ordering, this season to offer contactless concession pickup for fans at all Pippins home games.

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3 Ways Arenas and Stadiums Can Go Cashless for Re-Opening

In 2020, contactless payment surpassed cash and credit card transactions combined, and accounted for 41.8% of all transactions. This trend is only going to continue — not just in the e-commerce and restaurant space, but most importantly, in the live event space. The Super Bowl and the Olympics have both

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5 Best Practices for Drive-ins to Launch Contactless Ordering in 2021

With all of the new safety measures arising in 2020 due to the pandemic, many food operators have been led to adopt new platforms that allow for contactless ordering. This trend has gone far past just restaurants, and has even reached one of the oldest, most traditional entertainment sectors in the US: drive-in movie theaters.

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From Now On Partners with FanFood

CHICAGO, IL & OMAHA, NE. — From Now On, a mobile fan engagement provider, has joined FanFood, an online and mobile concessions and merchandise ordering platform, to deliver a mobile, one-stop-shop experience for colleges, high schools, minor league and professional sports venues and events.

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What Are the Fees Involved in a Mobile Order?

Payment Processing Fees, Convenience-Service Charges, and Sales Tax… OH MY!COVID-19 has increased the demand for sports, entertainment and live event venues to move away from cash dependency. This trend had been happening before the pandemic, given the many downsides of cash liabilities including handling, safekeeping and accounting.

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