Today is a landmark day for tapviva—we’ve processed 50,000 orders! A huge thanks to all of our awesome merchants and end-users for allowing us to achieve this milestone.

We’re delighted to go live with another Philz Coffee location. Now, in addition to Philz Palo Alto (Forest Ave), you can also use tapviva to order ahead in Mission Bay right by AT&T park! The address is 201 Berry St.

Download the app if you haven’t already! http://www.tapviva.com/download/.

We’re excited about big speed improvements to our iPhone app. We’ve drastically reduced the cold startup time by up to 53% over WiFi and 68% over 3G. Now you can get your orderin’ on much quicker.

This time around, we require that you get this update from the App Store. Future updates will pushed to your phone automatically like they have at times in the past, meaning your phone will seamlessly download the incremental app changes (delta updates) instead of the entire application. You’ll be notified when the automatic download is complete and will be prompted to relaunch tapviva.

We’ve also made it easier for new users to get started with a shorter signup process. So if you don’t already have an account, now would be a great time to get started!

Thanks to all of our mobile users for the helpful feedback. We’re excited about speeding up our Android app in the coming weeks.

Finally, there’s no need to re-enter your special requests—we’ve got you covered! (We’re looking at you, Mr. Anonymous, with your ’4 splenda in a large cup with extra ice’)

We’ve also made it dead-simple to modify an existing order. So if you’re re-ordering lunch for your entire office, you’ll be able to pull up yesterday’s transaction and add or remove a sandwich or two.

Let us know what you think! Tweet us @tapviva. We’d love to hear your thoughts!

From all of us at tapvivia, we wish you a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Festive Kwanza and a Happy New Year! We can’t wait to help improve your restaurant experience in 2012!

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But enabling mobile ordering is no easy task. Most restaurants lack the infrastructure to support realtime orders from a smartphone app. We’ve seen large chains sink hundreds of thousands of dollars into making this a reality for themselves, though. The problem is, most restaurants simply don’t want to take the pricey plunge just to make it more convenient for their customers. Smaller restaurants couldn’t do it anyway, as the cost would be 100% prohibitive.

We’re absolutely passionate about developing an end-to-end platform for food establishments of all sizes to facilitate mobile ordering. We’re certain the market is approaching a large shift–in five years you will not be forced to wait in line to place your order and pay. You can count on it.

After all, we can do everything else on our phone–so why can’t we order our food through it at our favorite restaurants?

1. Brainstorm during lunch, and actually keep the results.
2. Have one person take notes in meetings, and sync them within departments.  Let managers see the results of the meetings without needing to take the time to email or conference call.
   
3. Snap a photo of your receipts for expense reports.
4. Create, save, and share a set of snippets that you use over and over throughout the day.  Think signatures, simple bits of HTML, frequently-used-but-easily-forgotten login information.
5. Discuss contracts and proposals by uploading PDFs and commenting on them with your team.
6. Save the results of your whiteboards so that your hard work isn’t lost when the meeting ends.
7. Take a break and snap a photo of your favorite beer at lunch.  OK, so this one may not help you be more productive, but everyone needs to have a little fun, right?

Take Evernote for a spin.  We think you’ll love it as much as we do!  Did we mention it’s free?

Mindful of the growing threat, tapviva takes every precaution when handling customer credit card data. As with virtually every other online service, we encrypt your billing information and credit card number as you set up your account for the first time. To mitigate the fallout of any potential data breach (which is unlikely to begin with), we never store your credit card number on our servers. Both tapviva and the restaurants who partner with us can never reveal your credit card number, as it is handled only by our bank. So when you place an order through tapviva, we send a tokenized request to our credit card processor to initiate a charge to your credit card.

We are dead serious about security and make every effort to protect every one of our customers. Our system rock-solid secure, as we’re able to avoid the threats posed by physical payment methods. So that said, we look forward to make you safer while cutting the line.