No need to have cash with you

Dear friends,

I was just thinking about the benefits of having internet, have you thought how much our world has changed? Several years ago who could imagine going online and ordering a food? How could this happen? We would all say this is not possible! How is the order going to be placed and managed? How is the bill going to be paid?

Today thanks to the technology improvements you can easily go online, select from a wide range of restaurants and their menus, or even order a combination of foods from different restaurants, and even more you can pay the bill online. Think about it, a few years ago everybody had to carry cash with him in order to eat somewhere, now you can have your own credit or debit card with you and pay where ever you go. Armenian banks offering credit cards made it easy for every Armenian resident to have his own credit card. And by the security improved on internet you do not have to worry to use your credit card online, you can easily register on http://www.arca.am/ and create your own virtual card and after that you do not have to enter your card number each time you want to use it online, the good thing is that you can also set a monthly expenditure limit for your card.

Yerevan Quick Lunch is accepting different types of payments to make the whole experience easier for you, if you want to order your food online the payment is not an issue at all.

You can pay at Yerevan Quick Lunch by any type of credit cards, by your virtual Arca card and even by PayPal the most popular online payment service which is totally secure and the costs related are very reasonable.

Yerevan Quick Lunch is going to offer you its own credit cards in near future for those of you who do not have any type of cards; this is to make it easier to experience online food ordering with Yerevan Quick Lunch.

You comments about your personal experiences in paying online will help us provide a better environment at YQL.

Thank you,

Armen Jagharbekian
Founder

Some Relevant Thoughts

Dear Friends,

I was just organizing my thoughts and could not come up with the exact text of today’s post until I felt hungry and went out of the AUA to have a so called “Quick Lunch” and get back to you. Since it is getting closer to the start of our business, I focused on what I may find, to make comparison whit our “YerevanQuickLunch” choices.

As many of you can correctly guess, the small neighboring shops are our best and usually the only solution for a quick and cheap lunch in Yerevan. I did the same and went to one of these stores, which is by the way, a favorite one for students.

If you have guessed the shop correctly, my choices for lunch would be much easier for you to guess. A bunch of homemade and poorly (or not at all) packed donuts, some with black burnt sausages in them and HLT sandwiches with the lettuce gone yellow.

In the properly packaged product range, there are some “safe” choices but not for everyday consumption.

I ordered a Hotdog with Coke and a small pack of Doritos. The food was not bad, but this is the most generous complement for it. All the time you think about the bad cholesterol, extra calories and you “hope” that the vegetables in the sandwich are at lease properly washed. And … I paid 570 AMDs having promised that I will return the empty coke bottle!!!

Please understand that I do not address a certain shop and do not want to insult anybody. This is just an example of a typical shop around the city.

If I could order food to Yerevan Quick Lunch, this was my alternative:

1- I would order a chicken sandwich from the GGG restaurant with a season salad and a small bottle of mineral water.

2- That would have cost me 600 AMDs.

3- If this was a part of my monthly order, the price would be 420 AMDs.

4- I would not have to leave my desk and loose 30 minutes of my busy time today, and last but not the least,

5- I would be healthier than I am now!

This was a simple yet interesting comparison for me. Hope it was helpful or at least fun for you to read. If you have any such comparison stories, or other choices for a quick lunch choice, please share it with us.

Thank you for your attention,

Vanik Vartanian
Founder

Did you know that having a healthy and light lunch increases the productivity of your work?

Dear friends,

Lunch is the essential meal for sustaining our energy in the afternoon, not eating anything for lunch reduces your energy and makes the body vulnerable for becoming weaker and weaker, eating a greasy and large lunch increases the sugar levels of your blood and makes the person want to sleep in the afternoon, by eating a medium-sized healthy lunch you will have a full energy for the afternoon.
Eating well and taking regular exercise are the most important things to be healthy and protect against different diseases.


To sustain your energy at work, select foods which provide required energy for your body.

Rice, Potato, pasta, and bread are great sources of energy; generally carbohydrates are good for keeping the energy for a long time, and foods containing carbohydrates release energy slowly throughout the day. Beside the above advantages they also contain many nutrients such as vitamin B, calcium and iron.


Foods rich in fruit and vegetable provide the necessary vitamins and minerals for your body to be healthy, work properly and remain energetic in the afternoon. Fruits and vegetables are naturally low in fat and calories.



Protein is another important source of keeping the body energetic, protein can be found in fish, meat, poultry, dairy products, soya and TVP (Texturised Vegetable Protein).
High-fiber and pasta are good combination with vegetables which creates a light and healthy lunch.


Yerevan Quick Lunch offers great variety of pastas with vegetables, salads with fruits, meals with rice and chicken and many other combinations of carbohydrates, vegetables and protein. All these combinations are precisely selected to be offered to you seven days a week to keep you healthy, energetic and productive while you are at work.
Yerevan Quick Lunch has a special research program to be able to offer a great variety of healthy food In order to keep you healthy and in the same time productive.




We have added a link in our Blog which provides good nutrition facts about all foods; you can find any nutritious information you need by going to this website.


In the end we want to let you know that we have added RSS service to our blog, so you can subscribe to this service and receive the latest posts and comments from Yerevan Quick Lunch on your favorite location such as My Yahoo or Google.

XYZ Meal from ABC Restaurant

Hello dear followers,

The present post is dedicated to introduction of a complete meal suggested by the famous ABC restaurant located in Abovian Street, which is solely offered by Yerevan Quick Lunch service. The management of the restaurant has provided us with some valuable and interesting information about the meal as follows.

The Appetizer: The XYZ meal is offered with a delicious Italian salad as the appetizer, which is prepared by the freshest vegetables. The calorie free appetizer is served with a choice of Italian souse or blue cheese sauce. The abundant vitamins in the salad make it a healthy and tasteful start for the XYZ meal.


Main Course: The main course of the XYZ meal is a tasty salmon sandwich wrapped in a freshly baked special bread with it unique sauces and vegetables. The sandwich is the winner of the MNP food exhibition is Yerevan (May 2006). Two choices of “Mini” and “Midi” sizes are offered by the ABC restaurant, with one and two pieces of fish respectively.

Beverage: The offered beverage with the XYZ meal is a choice of lemonade from the CBA Co. which makes a perfect non- alcoholic combination with the meal. However if you are done with your daily tasks, you can change it with a 300 ml bottle of white wine of the same producer.

ABC restaurant offers the above mentioned meal with the fantastic price of 1500 AMD for the “mini” size and 2000 AMD for the “Midi” one.

You want more?

Ok….

The Yerevan Quick Lunch will add a choice of vanilla or fruit ice cream to your meal absolutely free of charge.

Group Orders: Orders of 10 or more meals will have a 30% discount.

Recurring Orders: If you select the meal for at least once a week for a monthly order, you will enjoy a 50% discount on the XYZ meal.

Interesting, isn’t it? You are going to hear more of such offers in a near future.

Our Services

Welcome back to Yerevan Quick Lunch,

In the post number three, we are going to describe some of our services in order to increase your awareness about the capability and variety of the company and have obtain some feedback, regarding the offered services, from your side.


Work Place Delivery: The main service of YQL is delivering food from you selected restaurants to your work place. The order can be placed based on the main dish, the salad, the beverages and the desert or any combination of those.




Special Occasions: The YQL services include also the catering of any workplace event (e.g., birthday) of any size. The order can include cakes, snacks and alcoholic beverages as well as ordinary food and drinks.


Recurring Orders: We also accept orders from the companies in a monthly basis, where you can select the schedule and daily quantity of delivery for a certain period (up to one month) individually or for the whole organization. This service will allow you to eliminate the daily lunch decision and use our flexible discounted offers for up to 50% of the initial order prices.


Consulting Services: Our nutrition specialists are there to provide you with any decision regarding the correct management of your orders. These services will be offered via email, phone call or a meeting scheduled in your place, where your questions about the variety, nutritious values and quantity of orders will be answered and optimal order options will be offered to you for final decision.


Home delivery: In spite of our focus on workplace deliveries, we are also there with you whenever you need us to help you with a lunch table at your house. All of the above mentioned services can be also offered to you at your house.


These are the main– but not all – of our offered services. There are still other surprises and interesting offers of which you will be informed gradually. You always have the opportunity - and are encouraged to – provide us with any suggestion about adding or modifying any service/product which will satisfy you best.

How does this work?!

Hello dear friends,

After an initial introduction and getting some positive feedback on the basic concept of Yerevan Quick lunch, here is the time to explain what our service is exactly about. In other words, how are we different from a normal procedure of calling a restaurant and ordering food?

Having considered the delivery time and freshness of the order as our main constraint, we have designed a system to be number one food ordering solution in the Yerevan city. The restaurants and delivery units are selected in a way that enable us to fulfill any order in Yerevan in less than 30 minutes.

Online ordering process is our main distinction. Our website has an extremely easy to use and user friendly interface, where you can select your meal while working on your desk. The online process which is enabling a real time and error proof communication between us, and our clients will ensure the speed and efficiency of the delivery system.

The software has some other privileges to the traditional phone ordering processes: First of all, you are able to decide the meal from a variety of restaurants in the city. You will also see the prices of each meal before ordering, which as you know it is difficult and inconvenient while talking on phone. The payment can be processed online where you will have username/password secured accounts to place the order and pay for the food at the end of the month. Finally, our data base will keep track of your orders and offer interesting surprise offerings to our loyal customers.
The software has also a recurring order section, where you can schedule your office monthly lunch program beforehand and concentrate on your job confidently, while enjoying the special discounts of such orders.

These however does not mean that you have to have access to internet in order to place an order. An automated telephone ordering system with the ability to be connected to an operator is available where you can easily call and place your order or leave us your comments.

You will also be able to use our website, to get information about nutritious values of different meals of the restaurants we work with. Our nutrition specialist column in the website will also give you special advices on how to organize your lunch time, to be healthy and energetic in your workplace.

In addition to all of the above mentioned points, it would be interesting for you to know that we offer all of these services without charging any premium from you. This means that the system has been designed to create its value by making the supply of food in Yerevan more efficient, therefore the restaurant will be the ones who pay us to be their delivery channel.

Your Welcome Present !!

Hello dear visitors,

Welcome to the Yerevan Quick Lunch blog.

The authors of this blog are here to share their thoughts and use your valuable ideas about a business, which is going to be launched in Yerevan (Armenia) in the near future. We hope and will try hard to keep this blog alive and up to date and make it a reliable communication channel between us and our customers.

Again we want to emphasize that the usefulness of this blog, lies on two way communication. Therefore we strongly appreciate any criticism, comment or idea about the blog or the business which will take us closer to what you want us to be.

Yerevan Quick Lunch is a website where you can find and order snacks, food and beverages from a great variety of Yerevan city's most favorite restaurants. The idea is to be a quick solution for your lunch decision, which will make your lunch breaks, more pleasant and efficient.

We will also go beyond a simple delivery service, with offering you with freshly made nutritious daily specials, so that your quick lunches will be also healthy. This is because we know that the most brilliant ideas will come out of a healthy mind.

We believe in continuous improvement and know that what moves us towards perfection is to value your preferences. This means that you don’t need to take any aspect of our business for granted. Just as your choice for what to eat as today’s lunch, you can decide how you want it to be delivered, how we can improve our service and what restaurants must be added to or excluded from our supplier list.

But this is not all of the experience. In order to show our appreciation of your active participation and make it more fun, we offer you the following game. You will have the opportunity to post your ideas which will be demonstrated in our blog, as a post with the author’s name. The most constructive and comment generating post will be selected by a group of specialists and the winner will have a Monday free lunch choice for a one year from the beginning of the website.

Finally, once again we thank for your participation and look forward to meet you more often both here at the blog, as well as at your lunch time.

Sincerely yours,

A & V
American University of Armenia

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