Client/Project Name + Project Theme
Fooda
Revolutionizing access to restaurant services by companies and other groups with Drupal Commerce
The Project
Connect companies with a network of local restaurants to bring variety and better food options to the workplace
The Approach
Use of Drupal 7 and Drupal Commerce to overcome the restrictions of Drupal 6 and Ubercart
Major Benefits
Implementation of an unusual hybrid business model that departs from traditional models of eCommerce
Partner
None
Market
Local (Chicago)
URL
The Challenge
Fooda is a Chicago-based startup that brings local restaurants into the workplace to give employees better food options. The concept started in 2007 when one of the founders, frustrated with the choices available to his employees, decided to bring local restaurants to the workplace on a rotating basis. It quickly went viral in the building, and as the demand grew, a unique business idea was born. The challenge was then to make this concept work on a large scale online.
The Approach
Fooda.com started its online activities with Drupal 6 and Ubercart. Upon extending its offerings with select.fooda.com, the company adopted Drupal Commerce to avoid the limitations of Ubercart. One of the goals was to streamline checkout from multiple pages to a single page — an easy improvement given Drupal Commerce's nonrestrictive approach to business rules. Moving to Drupal Commerce would also allow Fooda to implement a rich system of rewards and credits. Commerce Guys helped Fooda's developers to quickly get up to speed on Drupal Commerce. They consulted with the Fooda team on the move from a custom PHP solution to Drupal Commerce, setting up workflows and content architecture. They also did custom development to build out the most complex of the components: the Credits system.
About Fooda
Fooda is America's premier provider of food and other services to groups. Fooda has a large network of top local restaurants and provides its services to schools, corporations, organizations, and residential communities. For more information on Fooda, please visit www.fooda.com.
About Commerce Guys
Commerce Guys, creator of Drupal Commerce, is the leading eCommerce company working with Drupal, a powerful open-source Web infrastructure and social publishing platform. Known for its unprecedented flexibility, scalability, and security, Drupal Commerce offers a range of robust capabilities for conducting modern eCommerce.
The mission at Commerce Guys is to serve Internet merchants by helping them leverage the power of Drupal for their online stores with cutting-edge technology, expertise and open-source collaboration.
