The ab|inventio Gazette

This Christmas season, kids will not stand in line waiting to get their picture taken with Santa at Houston Premium Outlets. Instead, their parents will happily roam the mall with them while they wait, shopping and dining, and get a call on their cell phones from QLess when their turn to Ho Ho Ho arrives. After all, the most recognizable face in the world wants to see the children smiling for the photo.Santa will be the first to use the new QLess Teleprompter –he will never forget your kid’s name again.

City of Nashua’s DMV selected QLess this week to solve their queueing needs after a competitive process.

Bookmark http://whozat.com/search1/  if you prefer to enter your Whozat queries in a single box (for two boxes, use http://www.whozat.com/search2 .

To add Whozat to the search engines that you can use from the box in the top right of Internet Explorer (IE) or Mozilla Firefox, click on http://www.searchplugins.net/pluginlist.aspx?q=whozat&mode=title and click on I for Install. You can choose whether to make it the default or not.  

To do the same for Chrome,  go to the Settings menu at top right (looks like pliers), choose Options, make sure you are in the Basics tab, click on Manage next to Default search, click Add, enter Whozat into Name, w into the Keyword field, and http://www.whozat.com/search/?oneboxname=%s&search=Whozat+Me&src=Chrome into the URL field. Then click OK, select Whozat in the list of search engines and click on Make Default.

–Alex 

Check out ISSNAF’s interview of Marzia. –Alex 

Customers at The Boiling Crab are already giving QLess some great reviews.  Eddie C. from Cerritos writes in his 5-star review:

“You have to give them your phone number when you check in, so that they will call you and let you know when your table is ready.  This is pretty cool, since it allows you time to shop at the local stores around there, and not worry about missing your name called out.”  

Not an insignificant change given that the last review before The Boiling Crab went QLess on 9/24 said “Hate the wait”.

Eliminating your customers’ fear of being forgotten, and giving them the freedom to wait how and where they choose are just a couple of the many benefits that QLess can bring to your restaurant!

–Tim