MyOFO.com

MyOFO Text Club

2008-01-28T12:58:00.000-05:00

Join the MyOFO text club and receive specials and discounts straight to your cell phone.

To join, send text message MYOFO to 41513.

You can opt-out at any time by texting MYOFOSTOP.

Arrangements are being made with all types of businesses to offer discounts to members. All you will have to do is show the special offer that has been sent to your phone at the point of sale to redeem the discount.

New Member

2007-03-25T08:58:00.000-04:00

Welcome to Nicco's Italian Deli & Famous Subs. Located in Caldwell, Nicco's offers old world homemade dishes along with all of today's favorites. Special homemade dinners are available on Thursdays and Fridays. If you are in the area, place your order online and have it ready when you arrive.

New Member

2007-02-17T21:55:00.000-05:00

I would like to welcome The Great Wazu. A premiere sandwich shop in Parsippany, and a great addition to the MyOFO family.

A visit to Senorita's

2007-02-07T05:21:00.000-05:00

I had the chance to try Senorita's for the first time recently, the atmosphere is very comfortable. I had the chicken fajita, which was great, my wife enjoyed her chicken tacos very much. The service we received was a 10 on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the best. Naomi was probably one of the best servers that we have experienced in quite some time. Overall, Senorita's is a great experience with good food, good portions and great service, if you like Mexican food you have to try Senorita's.

New member

2007-02-07T05:18:00.000-05:00

Calandra's Pizza Restaurant and Catering of Bloomfield, is our latest new member to MyOFO.

Welcome new members

2007-02-01T23:41:00.000-05:00

Welcome new member Saveur Gourmet.

Tell a friend

2007-01-28T07:24:00.000-05:00

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

2007-01-26T22:28:00.000-05:00

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

2007-01-24T06:28:00.000-05:00

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

2007-01-21T06:26:00.000-05:00

Welcom to new member Cousins Pizzeria & Restaurant of Bloomfield.

Just Sandwiches

2007-01-18T23:18:00.000-05:00

Welcome to new member Just Sandwiches of Glen ridge.

New Members

2007-01-17T07:52:00.002-05:00

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

2007-01-15T22:05:00.000-05:00

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

2007-01-15T21:14:00.000-05:00

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

2007-01-08T13:09:00.000-05:00

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

2007-01-08T07:52:00.000-05:00

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

2007-01-07T11:38:00.000-05:00

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

2007-01-06T21:03:00.000-05:00

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

FeedBlitz Capabilty

2007-01-04T23:11:00.000-05:00

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

2007-01-03T16:28:00.000-05:00

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

Welcome New Members

2006-12-28T07:56:00.000-05:00

New York Bagel Cafe, of N. Haledon and Lotus Chinese are welcome additions to MyOFO. Lotus Chinese of West Orange is our first chinese restaurant.

Another New Launch date

2006-12-24T18:28:00.000-05:00

Unfortunately the myofo.com launch date has been moved again to January 15th. Hopefully this will be the last time. The engineering department was scheduled to go on vacation 12-23-06 to 1-05-07. I was obviously hoping to have all work completed before vacation time, but it didn't happen.
The input of menus has begun. It is a very detailed process, one menu can take up to 4 hour to enter. The good news is once it is entered, editing is very simple.

New Launch date

2006-12-14T13:24:00.000-05:00

The new launch date is set for 12-26-06. There were some problems with the programming, and I would much rather it be right than rushed.

The best MyOFO sign

2006-12-14T12:40:00.000-05:00

Monster Subs of Bloomfield, one of the charter members of MyOFO.com, has placed the best MyOFO sign to date. Thanks to Josh for allowing such a large sign.

MyOFO.com new member

2006-12-10T06:57:00.000-05:00

Welocome to Myofo.com new member Udupi Village of Montclair. One of the only Kosher indian restaurants in the area, they are a welcome addition to MyOFO.

Truly an Amazing Hot Dog

2006-12-07T10:35:00.000-05:00

I finally had the pleasure of trying a hot dog from Amazing Hot dog of Verona. I must say that Matt & Eric (pictured left with their spiritual leader) make THE best hot dog that I have had in a long time. I had the "Melt" which had sauteed onions and cheez whiz, along with some incredible french fries. As a hot dog lover, I must say I must have been crazy to wait so long to try them.

The buzz is buliding

2006-12-07T10:15:00.000-05:00

The placement of signs is going very well, and the buzz is building. Ultimatly, the goal is to have MyOFO signs all over the place, I would like them to be just as common as visa and mastecard stickers in merchant windows.
Myofo has been submited to all the major search engines and should be indexed as soon as they get around to it. As of today, the temporary site receives around 10 new visitors daily, and that is just from the signs that have been put up in locations. If anyone ever needs good quality signs at a cheap price, make sure you go to staples. They have all the bells and whistles of a print shop without the heavy price and minimum order sizes.

New Launch date

2006-12-01T08:07:00.000-05:00

The new launch date is now December 15th. The site is not where I would like it to be at this point but steady progress is being made. I would also like to welcome to MyOFO.com, Soho Pizza & Grill of Montclair.

Press Release

2006-11-23T21:10:00.000-05:00

DeliveryNow.com the premiere food delivery service, has announced a joint venture with hybrid food ordering web site MyOFO.com. The partnership should be beneficial to all parties involved, MyOFO.com which considers itself a “virtual food court” will provide all point of sale marketing material such as signage on the restaurant level, all the way to television spots and billboard marketing. The partnership allows Deliverynow.com to focus on their core business of delivering food from fine restaurants that normally would not offer delivery.

Deliverynow.com now offers delivery for over 70 restaurants in northern New Jersey in five counties. President Paul Birell says “we provide delivery for restaurants that would like to expand their business without the headaches that are associated with offering delivery, such as hiring drivers, employee turnover, and maintaining vehicles and insurance”. They have accounts with restaurants such as Charlie Brown’s Steakhouse, and The Office Beer Bar & Grill.

MyOFO.com which has access to over 75,000 customers through the restaurants that are members, will now be able to offer a larger restaurant selection to its free users of the site. Company president Todd C. Robinson says “people love the selection that the food court provides when they go to the mall, MyOFO.com offers the same model on the internet with extra convenient features. One useful feature is “My Favorites” which allows users to bookmark items from their favorite restaurants, which make it very easy to reorder items without having to search menus every time they wish to place an order.

Polite Employees, Rude manager

2006-11-21T17:53:00.000-05:00

I go into Panera Bread in Caldwell, to offer them the opportunity to become a member of the Myofo community, the assistant manager informs me that that I need to speak with the manager who will be in at 11:00. She was very polite and receptive to the idea, so I decide to come back. After waiting to speak with the manager for 30 minutes, she comes out from the back office and takes a look at me and says " what ???!! online ordering ??? In a very condescending way says "I can't decide on something like that, you have to speak to corporate" . I say would you be able to give me a phone number of someone I can speak to? " I'm to busy for that, come back next week".

I have approached a few corporate owned franchises and I clearly understand I will have to speak with someone at a higher level, but I have never encountered a "Manager" that was that un-professional. It gave me a totally different perspective on Panera Bread. The funny part is, they need online ordering probably more than any restaurant that I have been in. The place is run so inefficiently, it shows that if people like the food of a restaurant they will put up with poor service to get it.

Welcome new members

2006-11-21T06:52:00.000-05:00

I would like to welcome to the MyOFO family three restaurants, Chicken Holiday located on Bloomfield Ave. in Caldwell, Otto's on Bloomfield Ave in Caldwell and The Roost on Bloomfield Ave in Montclair. All three are a welcome addition to the MyOFO community.

MyOFO blog is born

2006-11-21T06:28:00.000-05:00

The MyOFO.com blog is born. I will try to post as often as I can. I hope this blog turns out to be an open forum for suggestions and feedback from restaurant owners and members. I will also post anything of interest that has to do with MyOFO.com.

The December 1st launch date is on track, and the excitment is building.