We are live at The Egg Factory - a nice cosy all day diner located on St. Marks Road in Bangalore. 

This time we have launched with our complete solution, the mobile loyalty and SMS based review package.

So now you can head down there - have a meal, earn upto 7 points for your purchase, and if you have already been there, don't forget to leave a review.

Cheers

Now Oye Amritsar (Koramangala) takes the next step to come closer to it's customer by becoming the first Restaurant to officially join Revu platform. This means, you can now leave a Revu (on web or on mobile my sending the sms revu oyeamritsarkora <message> to 9243 000 111) and you will be heard by the managers there. If you have waited for your order a little too long, or that Tikka was too spicy or you just want to say Hi, shoot a Revu.

In coming weeks, the Punjab Da Puttar of Oye Amritsar will be pampered with a surprise. The race is on, lets see who will be the winner. 

Recommending a restaurant based on your friends visit is perhaps the single most easiest thing possible. You can now do that on Revu. When you sign up with your Facebook or Twitter account (we prefer you link both), Revu scouts to see which one of your friends on that network are on Revu, which restaurants they have Revu'ed about and recommends them to you based on popularity. The little widget on the right side after you are logged in, which says "Revu Recommends" is what you are looking for.

Give it a spin, ask your friends to join Revu, ask them to leave Revu and see how Revu recommends gets better as more and more of your friends join and leave Revu's.

Happy Revuing

And now with Revu, Printo is one step closer to listening to it's customer. Have a praise or a bone to pick? just SMS "revu printo <message>" to +91 9243 000 111 and log onto http://www.revu.in/printo to see what others have to say.

How many times has it happened to you that you are sitting in a restaurant, enjoying an awesome dish and badly wanting to share it with all of your friends and to tell them to try it out when they come to that restaurant? Or just want to leave a note of warning to anyone coming in next to beware of bad service? Well there is nothing that you could do just sitting there except maybe to burrp (excuse me..) or just keep your mouth shut(pun intended). 

That's exactly what we experienced and decided to create a very simple to use micro review site. Revu (as in short for review, and pronounced the same way) in it's most basic form helps you to record a review by just sending a simple SMS right at the time of experience. No more coming back home, switching on internet, logging in your review site and leaving a review. The same Revu can be posted instantly on your Twitter profile and your Facebook wall if you have linked your 
accounts with your mobile number. 

It also has a very fast mobile and web interface on which you can leave a review, research about a restaurant, add a restaurant (or anything for that matter) in a jiffy. We are also talking to various businesses (Restaurants primarily) to use Revu as their feedback forum and to reward their customers who leave a review about them on Revu. 

Head to http://www.revu.in either on your desktop browser or your mobile browser and start leaving your Revu's. 

Yes, being a mayor used to be cool sometime ago. And if you were a mayor of Starbucks you could have one dollar off your frappuccino. But both the discount as well as the coolness is now gone. Infact you even get beaten on Twitter/Facebook trying to broadcast that you are a mayor of your own home.

At Revu we thought it would be cool to call someone, lets say Punjab Da Puttar for having maximum number of points at a Punjabi restaurant. And how about Cacofonix for showing your undying loyalty to your favorite band? And thats what we have done at Revu. Do checkout these nice titles and if you have suggestions for some jazzy titles, send them in.

Oh and yeah, By the way we also have our mobile site up and running at http://m.revu.in. So if the SMS syntax was too daunting for you to leave a review and checkin, you can do that on the mobile site too. We have also added tonnes of listing across major Indian cities, So if you happen to visit one today, do check it out on the mobile site and leave a Revu.

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