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Source United Acquires Takeaway Management Technology

28 March 2005

UNITED KINGDOM: It's one thing for a takeaway or restaurant to have a website or to be listed in an online directory, it's an entirely different thing for that takeaway or restaurant to derive business benefit from the website or directory listing. While Source United has completed many websites for takeaways and restaurants, those sites stand out because their online ordering and payment process work and because those sites are found by thousands of customers and potential customers every day. Now for the next step - customers of takeaways and restaurants today demand a superfast service and top-level customer service. Yet very few have the technology in place to deliver this. That technology is now available and integrated with the leading online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants.

Source United has recently acquired the technology to launch its new product Takeaway Manager™. A new company has been spawned yb the parent of Source United - which is MW Corporation Limited - in which to hold, develop and commercialize this product. The new company is called Source United Retail Systems Limited ("SURS") and is wholly focussed on online and in-store systems for takeaways and retaurants.

Takeaway Manager™ is being rapidly taken up by food businesses around the UK. Kundan Misra, Sales Director for Takeaway Manager™, said, "Takeaway customers demand excellent customer service and 100% reliability. This need not be a stress for owners. With the right technology, it's not a stress at all! We've found that takeaway and restaurant owners are very careful with their spending, and so we've priced the product to remove the risk from the purchase. We provide a 90-day free trial>"

Takeaway Manager&trade features include caller ID, postcode lookup, automatic mapping for delivery drivers, fast menu item selection (with "autocomplete" - e.g. just type "tik" for tikka dishes or "swe" for sweet & sour dishes), customer order history, delivery driver reconciliation for end-of-night, receipt printing and order printing for the chef, and text message order despatch advisory to the customer.

Source United Retail Systems is also taking aim at takeaway and restaurant flyer and leaflet drops. Printing typically costs £ 600 or more, and labour for delivery is £ 30 per thousand not including management and monitoring of the delivery personnel. Takeaway Manager™ has an alternative approach, sending an SMS text message to existing opted-in customers. At 6p per message, leaflet drops have a substantially lower return on investment.

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Source United Acquires Takeaway Management Technology