Tell a friend

The tell a friend feature is now up and running. The way the program works, users send a message to their friends and family, once they register and place an order, the person that referred them receives $5. The referral fee is sent to the users paypal account.

Two new members

Church Street cafe, of Montclair and Senorita's Mexican Grill Bloomfield are welcome new members of myofo.com. Both have a very comfortable enviroment and great food.

New member

Welcome new member Desert Moon, of West Orange. A great addition to MyOFO, a very large and friendly environment that serves beer and margaritas.

New Member

Welcom to new member Cousins Pizzeria & Restaurant of Bloomfield.

Just Sandwiches

Welcome to new member Just Sandwiches of Glen ridge.

New Members

I would like to welcome two new members, The Cheese shop of Upper Montclair and T.S. Ma, also of Upper Montclair. The Cheese shop, a long time staple on Valley Rd., will be changing their name shortly to........ I've been sworn to secrecy.
T.S. Ma has established itself as a higher quality Chinese restaurant, they only use fresh ingredients and all their dishes are prepared with trans fat free, Cholesterol free canola oil.

Both restaurants are welcome members to the MyOFO.com community.

The beginning

Finally MyOFO.com is up and running. It was a long journey to get to the beginning.

Press Release: MyOFO.com Launches 1-15-07

Myofo.com an online food ordering website, has set a launch date of January 15^st.

The website which is a hybrid of online food ordering sites, offers the ability to make reservations along with the ability to place catering orders. Company President Todd C. Robinson, is quoted as saying "Myofo.com will fill a niche of the corporate office worker. Coming from the corporate world, I understand how much of an event lunch is on a daily basis. Every office has a lunch coordinator, some have several, who have all the menus from local restaurants stuffed in their desk. The "“MyGroup" ” feature, which will be available in the future will allow the user to choose from several restaurants then send an email with a link to the open order to members of their group, the members in turn add items that they would like. The total is itemized for easy collection of money owed from each member. Once the order is complete, it can be placed for delivery or pick up.

Myofo.com has plans to have all types of restaurants, everything from chain restaurants to mom and pop bagel shops. Most online food ordering sites cater to either college students or high end restaurants. Opentable.com targets high end restaurants, campusfood.com caters to college students. Myofo.com will be a combination of several online food ordering models.

All American Grill & Deli

A welcome member of Myofo.com There is nothing like a good deli sandwich, and All American uses quality cold cuts and cheeses.

Grocery shopping online

The Internet is a wonderful world within itself. Even though it has its problems, the benefits far outweigh the set-backs. With its apparently unlimited amount of websites on every subject and topic, no matter what your interest is you can find millions of sites. In the real world you can't come close to experiencing all of the stores or shops that sell the widgets that you are interested in. How many times in the real world have you visited a restaurant or little store in your hometown for the first time that has been in the same location for years? If it is a pleasant experience you wonder why you had not tried their business sooner.
You might have driven past their location for years, and then one day you decide to go inside, only to find out that they offer something that you absolutely love or have to have.

The Internet is exactly the same way, I have been on the Internet for about 10 years and I just recently decided to try food shopping online. I have been an online shopper from the beginning. I never had a problem with trusting the merchants that I purchased from. That's why I cannot understand what took me so long to try online food shopping. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind the supermarket, even though it's not one of my favorite things to do, but I don't mind going to the market. My wife has told me that there is something sexy about a man that food shops. So that alone is enough incentive for me to go with her. Going by myself is another matter all together.

One day the food shopping needed to be done, and I drew the assignment. I decide to check online to see if any of the local supermarkets had a website or offered delivery. Approximately 20 minutes later I had schedule for delivery $175 worth of groceries from the very supermarket that I was going to be going to. They had every item on the list that my wife had given me. For a nominal fee of $6.95 they would bring our groceries to our house at a day and time that I specified. The whole time I'm thinking that this is worth every penny of 7 bucks, no shopping carts with a bad wheel, no crying babies, no long check out lines, no price checks, clearly the only way to food shop.

The delivery was scheduled for the next day, our delivery man was on time and courteous.
He also did not drop the 10 bags of groceries at the door, he carried all of the bags to our kitchen. I'm not sure, but I think he would have put them away if I asked. I was more than happy to give him the $7 tip that I gave him. The surprise of the whole thing is that I did not tell my wife that I had scheduled the delivery, after the delivery guy left, come to find out that, figuring out a way to do the food shopping without going to the supermarket is even more sexy.

I'm glad I found Baristanet

Baristanet is a blog with a food section where people give feedback (mostly negative) on local restaurants in the Montclair ,Bloomfield area. If you can get past some of the personal attacks that sometimes show up every now and then, it is the best open forum on food in our area.

When someone says that the service is horrible at a particular restaurant, I don't know if it is fair, owners don't have a never ending pool of good waiters and waitresses to choose from. Could you imagine if they fired the help every time they gave bad service? Every restaurant in the world would have 1 or 2 employees. I also know it can't be easy for restaurant owners to hear people say that their establishment is dirty. I mean there is constructive criticism that can cross the line. I am all for positive feedback, but it is clear some people are trying to attack restaurants for reasons they see fit. Unless I felt as though the service I got from an establishment was bad for a reason, I would assume the usual, that service in ANY restaurant is average at best. Truth be told, most waiters and waitresses do not take pride in what they are doing, so you get what you get. When was the last time you heard anyone say that I want to become a waiter? MOST of the time they are aspiring to do something else, and it is just a job for now. To the waiters and waitresses out there that DO take pride in what they do, please, please, please keep up the good work, and try to brainwash your co-workers into doing the same.

Vinnies Pizzeria & Restaurant

I had the pleasure of trying Vinnies recently, the Veal Parm was great.

FeedBlitz Capabilty

The latest thing for keeping up with what's going on with blogs that you blog is FeedBlitz. Instead of actually having to blog, any posting to a blog that you subscribe to is e-mailed straight to you. Its like blogging from your inbox. Enter your e-mail to receive an e-mail when I update this blog with new restaurants that become members to myofo.com.

Another New member

I would like to welcome Tinga to MyOFO.com, our first Mexican restaurant. They have 4 locations, Montclair, Millburn,Westfield and Westwood.
www.tingausa.com