NoWait was a PIttsburgh-based company with mobile software for restaurants that could be used by restaurant staff for organizational purposes and used by customers to manage their wait times at restaurants. It participated in the AlphaLab 06/01/10 cohort and raised an estimated $22,105,310. Later it exited with an estimated value of $40,000,000 when it was acquired by Yelp in March 2017.
The company's app was a wait list and seating tool that was used by over 4,000 restaurants that were in its network. It was generally used by casual dining restaurants, such as Chili's and Buffalo Wild Wings. Customers could use the app to add their name to a restaurant wait list before actually arriving at the restaurant. Other information that was available to customers included wait times and receiving a text to be alerted when their table was ready.
NoWait was utilized by restaurants to manage their wait lists as well as viewing data for table turnover times and analytics of that data. Restaurants needed to pay a monthly subscription ranging from $179 to $249, depending on the plan that was chosen.
Timeline
Yelp acquires the company for $40,000,000.
Funding rounds
People
Adam Gerson
Employee
Alan Mark
Investor
Alistair Rock
Advisor
Andrew Hain
Employee
Bethany Rochmann
Employee
Bill O'Rourke
Employee
Caleb Brown
Employee
Chip Homer Jr
Employee
Christopher Riley
Employee
Danielle Gillespie
Investor
Dave Strigler
Investor
David Ambrose
Advisor
David Koehn
Investor
Devon George
Investor
Don Klaiss
Investor
Eric Silver
Investor
Frank Demmler
Investor
Gordon Chaffee
Investor
Greg Murtland
Employee
Harry Karatassos
Employee
Jaclyn Montgomery
Employee
James Belt
Founder
Jammie Mountz
Employee
Jennifer Gore
Employee
Jim Jen
Investor
Further reading
NoWait app promises easier restaurant wait
Jefferson Graham
Web
February 13, 2014
Nowait: Never Wait Around for a Restaurant Table Again
Carolyn Nicander Mohr
Web
March 2, 2017