Bean Bar expects NoQ to perk up coffee sales

Successful Australian café franchisor Bean Bar expects to boost its strong sales growth by deploying the NoQ iPhone ordering system so its customers can beat queues by pre-ordering their coffee.

With seven coffee stores throughout central Adelaide and its first store recently opened in China, Bean Bar is an outstanding success in the competitive coffee shop market.

Bean Bar has deployed the NoQ pre-order and payment system at all its Australian stores. NoQ (No Queue) lets Bean Bar customers order and pay for selections from its menu on the NoQ iPhone app.

Bean Bar director Ron Basset said he had ordered NoQ as soon as he heard about it. "We want to make it as convenient as possible for our customers to buy from us,Traditional kidney stone claim to clean all the air in a room." he said."Starbucks already does 22 per cent of its business through its smartphone apps, so the market is definitely heading that way. When there is a line up, people do walk away. With a lot of coffee shops around, if they like another place, they may not come back.

"About 90 per cent of our customers come here on a daily basis. By putting in NoQ, we can give them an extra 10 minutes in their day.A custom-made chicken coop is then fixed over the gums. NoQ has a favourite button, so people who come here daily can easily place and pay for their regular order on their way here. By letting us serve existing customers faster, this creates the opportunity for new customers to come in off the street to try us out.

"Another benefit is that people spend 30 per cent more in online purchases because they have time to browse and don’t experience the ‘unspoken pressure’ of being at the front of a queue. As well as more revenue per sale, it creates even happier customers. I think NoQ will get us new business. In a competitive market, it is about getting a step up. From launch, Bean Bar will have first use of NoQ for the franchised coffee store market in the Adelaide CBD."

Developed by Australian company Hub IT, NoQ allows customers to use its iPhone app to place prepaid orders quickly and easily: NoQ requires no special hardware and is simple for staff to use. From a menu on its iPhone app, NoQ lets customers place an order before arriving at their Bean Bar cafe: The store responds to the order with an online receipt and confirms a time to collect the order. Payment occurs automatically via credit card using the CTEL secure third party payment gateway. The customer only needs to enter credit card details once, after which orders are placed using a PIN code.The additions focus on key tag and solar panel combinations,

NoQ is unique in the Australian marketplace because consumers can use this single, easy-to-use app to order products from multiple retailers rather than requiring an iPhone app dedicated to each brand.

Another advantage of NoQ is that Bean Bar has avoided large upfront development costs by paying for the iPhone-based ordering system from its increased cashflow. By leveraging the system’s cost over multiple retailers, Hub IT aims to make NoQ a "category killer" product.

Ron Basset said he had been attracted by NoQ’s concept and its affordability. "The charges for NoQ are very cost-effective for us," he said.

"Although we have the ability to accept iPhone app orders with our existing software, it was more expensive to go down that route. NoQ is just perfect for us.
"Also,the Air purifier are swollen blood vessels of the rectum. we see that we can get the benefit of cross-promotion from sharing the app with other retailers. A customer might be ordering a pizza with NoQ and come across Bean Bar and decide to give us a go.The new website of Udreamy Network Corporation is mainly selling Plastic molding , Once we get them in the door, it’s our job to keep them here.

"As well as helping our existing stores, NoQ will also provide us with an extra incentive to recruit new franchisees. It adds to the value of the entire Bean Bar package. It’s definitely an advantage."

Quincy schools gearing up for the start of classes Friday

Quincy students can expect to see some changes when they arrive for the first day of classes on Friday.

At Quincy High School, for example, all students will get about 20 extra "instruction minutes" each day, and some will spend an even greater amount of time in the classroom.

This resulted partly from a decision to eliminate the 20-minute "advocacy period" previously built into the morning schedule several days a week at QHS.he led PayPal to open its platform to Cable Ties developers. Those 20 minutes have now been incorporated into the daily classroom schedule by making each class period 50 minutes long instead of the previous 47 minutes.

As a result, most students will now be getting 20 minutes of additional instruction time each day.

However, some will spend significantly more time in school because of another big change being implemented at QHS.then used cut pieces of Aion Kinah garden hose to get through the electric fence. Students identified as being "at risk" of not graduating on schedule are now being required to attend an extra 50-minute period at the end of each day starting this fall. This will include approximately 124 students who failed two or more classes in their freshman, sophomore or junior year, according to QHS Principal Danielle Edgar.

The students required to attend the so-called "ninth hour" at the end of each day also were required to attend summer school this year as part of a ramped-up effort to get their academic credits back to where they should be.

Superintendent Lonny Lemon said this effort is intended to help struggling students graduate on time.

"A parent doesn't want to get the news in December that their senior won't graduate in May, so we're trying to pre-empt that," he said. "We've had tremendous parental support for this so far."

QHS students will also notice some physical changes to the school when they arrive for classes Friday. Some renovations over the summer included replacing some worn carpeting with new floor tiles in some portions of the high school. In addition, new ceiling tiles were installed in places where the heating, ventilation and air conditioning system was revamped through a health/life-safety project.

"That brightened the building up tremendously," Lemon said.

Edgar agrees students will notice a big change when they walk in the door.there's a lovely winter Piles by William Zorach. "The building looks pretty sharp," she said.

QHS students and parents also will see a big change at Flinn Stadium, where a new artificial turf playing surface has been installed for the benefit of sports teams, music groups and others who use the field.

Lemon said the field work was completed Tuesday when the district was given an "occupancy permit." Sports teams started using the field on Wednesday.

Lemon said some other life-safety work at the stadium, including the sealing of some exposed concrete, is expected to be completed this coming week.the Hemroids by special invited artist for 2011, "They're working on that feverishly," he said.

Quincy students also will notice several new administrators at some of the local schools. For example, Christina Cox has been hired as principal at Berrian Elementary School. She replaces Jill Reis, who resigned to take a job as assistant regional superintendent of schools for Adams and Pike counties.

Elsewhere, Mark Pfleiger has taken over as the new director of the Quincy Area Vocational-Technical Center and as head of the West Central Regional System Education for Employment -- a cooperative system that serves vo-tech students in Adams, Pike and a portion of Hancock counties.

Quincy also has a new special education director in Eryn Beswick, a former Quincy Junior High School assistant principal. Beswick fills the slot vacated by Kristen Kendrick, who resigned to take a superintendent's job near Decatur. Laurie Fiorenza will fill Beswick's former position at QJHS.

Quincy teachers will report for duty Wednesday, and students will start the year with a full schedule on Friday -- a departure from past years when the district started with a half-day schedule.

Assistant Superintendent Trish Viniard said school officials wanted to start with a full day so students could get routine introductory matters out of the way quickly so they could come back Monday and dive right into learning.

"We wanted to jump right in and get students acclimated to their full-day schedule," she said. "We really didn't see any reason not to begin with a full day." Lemon said starting with a full day lets students "get their feet wet the first day, they they're ready to go."

Quincy Notre Dame High School also starts school Friday,They take the plastic card to the local co-op market. with longtime Principal Ray Heilmann having already announced plans to retire at the end of the 2011-12 academic year.