The Nowait Company

The Nowait company was founded by Robb Meyer and created by its CEO Ware Sykes. Nowait is the first mobile app for restaurants and consumers. Based in Pittsburgh, Nowait is a mobile platform that provides services to more than 4,000 dining restaurants across the country, including national chains such as Chili’s and First Watch. By using the Nowait guest app, users can see how long they would have to wait at a restaurant that does not accept reservations, as well as put their names on the waitlist without being physically present at a restaurant. The company was founded in 2010 and formally launched its app over 7 years ago. The main goal of this company was to give consumers back something they value most- their time. Nowait started to save

Although there are only 6 employees at the Meyran Avenue location in Pittsburgh. As stated on their website, ”Hospitality runs deep at Nowait. Our company is comprised of many former hosts, servers, operators and chefs.” The website also describes that every single one of their employees must get experience as a restaurant hostess before they start working at the company. They want to ensure all their employees understand and experience how restaurants operate. From development and design to sales and marketing, Nowait employees are more effective at addressing needs of the company and consumers because they have experience in their shoes. I also spoke with a Nowait employee via email. They stated that they never feel left out of decisions or big news announcements. Since the company is smaller, they are all closer and included in more company-wide changes. There has been many changes in the last few years especially because of the merge with

Nowait is now a Yelp company, thus making this business a merger. Nowait took on Yelp's mission statement, “Yelp's mission is to connect people with great local businesses.” (Nowait employee). The Nowait Guest app is “the anti-reservation app” that seamlessly connects guests with restaurants’ waitlists. With Nowait for almost all mobile devices, restaurants can now connect to diners before they arrive with the first mobile consumer network for the casual dining industry. With offices in New York City and Pittsburgh, Nowait is sponsored by Drive Capital and Birchmere Ventures. To date, Nowait has seated more than 300 million diners and regularly seats more than 30 million diners every