— New CharityWait Feature Enables Popular Restaurants to Offer Waiting Guests the Opportunity to Get Seated Next by Making a Donation to Charity —
New York, NY April 15, 2015 – The creators of the SmartLine – a restaurant wait list and reservation management app – today announced the launch of CharityWait, (http://www.CharityWait.org) a feature that allows diners to skip to the front of the line at their favorite restaurants for a nominal donation to charity.
Restaurants participating in CharityWait – which already include top names such as Kotobuki, Chez Lucienne, and Jado Sushi – do not monetarily profit from using the application, but they do benefit by being socially conscious and supporting the causes they love while increasing revenue and better managing operations with SmartLine’s digital wait list management application.
“The initial response from restaurants & charities has been tremendous,” said Daniel Reitman, Co-Founder & CEO of SmartLine and CharityWait. “Even before we officially announced our launch we had over 150 restaurants sign-up and download our app.”
“Our guests LOVE the CharityWait feature and we are happy to help give back to organizations that work within our community” said Eric Kim, Manager at Kotobuki.
Participating charities already include Aid for Africa, Water to Thrive, and Rock-Can-Roll. If a restaurant would prefer to choose their own charity, CharityWait is more than happy to accommodate as long as the nonprofit is a registered 501(c)3 organization.
“We are THRILLED with the dozens of donations already coming in” exclaimed Aimee Holtzman, Founder of rock CAN roll, a 501c3 non-profit hunger relief organization. Rock CAN roll is the beneficiary non-profit at Kotobuki in Roslyn, Long Island where more than 20% of the guests try to make donations to non-profits so they can skip the wait.
CharityWait is a proprietary feature of SmartLine (www.SmartLineApp.com), a free wait list and reservation management application, which lets restaurants alert their guests to available seats via text message, as a replacement for clunky, range-limited and germ-infested restaurant buzzer systems.
In addition to texting patrons that their tables are ready, SmartLine also lets restaurants send brief marketing messages along with that text to promote specials, appetizers or exclusive offers.
To date, more than 400,000 restaurant guests have been seated using SmartLine.
