ChowNow alternative for restaurants
Thousands of independent restaurants use Owner.com instead of ChowNow to increase online sales, simplify their online presence all-in-one, customize their branding, offer points-based loyalty, and avoid needing to pay 10% fees on Google orders.
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What Makes Owner the Better Choice?
We believe that ChowNow is wrong to not help the restaurants with their website and not let restaurants custom brand their online ordering system. We think it’s unfair to charge the restaurant 10% fees for orders through Google. Lastly, we believe that restaurants having their points-based loyalty program is important to incentivize them to order directly through them instead of on third party apps.
Biggest reasons to migrate
1. Save on commission fees
When orders flow through ChowNow’s Google integration, they charge the restaurant a 10% fee on those transactions. With Owner, we never charge the restaurant a fee per transaction –– ensuring you get to keep all of the revenue you drive.
2. Reward your customers for ordering
Like Starbucks, Domino’s, SweetGreen, and the other most successful restaurant operators in the world –– Owner lets your restaurant have a points-based loyalty program built-in. ChowNow charges your customers an extra monthly fee to use loyalty, which we think is ridiculous.
3. Protect your restaurant’s brand.
Keep your colors, your branding, and your domain rather than having a generic experience where you send website visitors to ChowNow.com without the ability to customize your online experience.
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ChowNow Reviews
ChowNow averages a 1.1 star rating on PissedConsumer.com, with over 70 1-star reviews. To be fair, they also have over 15 5-star reviews. You should check their full review profile by Googling “ChowNow Reviews” to evaluate for yourself.
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ChowNow's lack of points-based loyalty
Instead of using the loyalty model that every major restaurant corporation has proven works, ChowNow decided to try to reinvent the wheel and ended up with "Restaurant Memberships" and no points-based loyalty system.
"Restaurant Memberships" via ChowNow make your customers pay you a monthly fee to be able to access rewards for ordering. We don't think that's tempting or good value, and think that there's a good reason that hasn't caught on.
By contrast, with Owner, you get the same type of loyalty system used by the top restaurant corporations in the world like Chick Fil-A, Starbucks, and Sweetgreen –– where you can reward people with points for ordering from you directly and ordering more.
ChowNow's reputation on PissedConsumer
It didn't take us a lot of Googling to find ChowNow's PissedConsumer page, where over 100 people since 2016 have gone to rate their experiences in using their product. ChowNow averages 1.1 stars on PissedConsumer with 79 reviews, and you can view their page yourself at https://chownow.pissedconsumer.com/review.html
It's a concern we think restaurant owners should investigate, along with researching their reviews on other sites and how those reviews compare to solutions like Owner.
Proof the ChowNow platform doesn't have the ability to power your website
As you can see from their website, ChowNow's platform only powers online ordering –– no website builder or SEO or text marketing built in like you can get with Owner. We think that's a mistake on their part because it makes life harder for the restaurant owner in having to cobble together multiple different solutions to do what our solution does in one.
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Owner has the highest rated client support in restaurant software, based in the United States. We're here for you 24 hours a day, every day of the week, including holidays.
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