Likelihood to Recommend I would not recommend Chowly to any restaurant that is trying to push orders through to their POS from a third party delivery site. Any restaurant would be much better off finding a third party site that integrates directly with their POS. Using Chowly was more of a headache than it needed to be and our company switched to
Checkmate (also not great) after a year with Chowly.
Read full review There is no better way for Cleaning & Maintenance Lists. The follow-up is automatic, it is user-friendly for leaders, and easy to update as needs change. I am excited for the new updates coming out that will help our new hire training! Read full review Pros Responsive support team Their team's knowledge of Toast POS Their sales team is aggressive and confident in their product Read full review Time management and tracking of daily employee productivity. Allows for instructional data to be added to all our checklists, audits, etc to provide hands on training all the time! Ease of use. It's a breeze to create new lists and use the lists already created Mobility- my staff is on the go and being able to grab an iPad at the beginning of their shift and take it with them through the day completing tasks and allowing for more autonomy in our work force Versatile. Can be use for simple list down to more complex guides and checklists with calculations and scoring. Read full review Cons Promises of ways to avoid mapping errors were never followed through on Many mapping errors which required constant attention To use requires multiple hidden modifiers in Toast, clogging up the menu Read full review We would love to see a "favorites" icon that can be enabled for any label. We have dozens of labels specific to products/processes that are grouped within a multitude of categories. If one is not familiar with which category a label is stored, it requires the use of the search function in Jolt (which is definitely a nice feature and great time saver). However, we were able to create a category called "favorites" and duplicated our frequently used labels into this location for ease of access. Read full review Likelihood to Renew Jolt is very user friendly and offers a lot of solutions to my companies needs. If it offered a Payroll piece and a Point of Sale piece it would make it a complete system that would solve 99% of my companies needs.
Read full review Usability The system itself is very user friendly and every one of our team members is able to use it easily. The only difficulty that we have occasionally run into is a lack of connectivity between the Bluetooth printer and the iPAD. There are only two or three of us on staff that are well versed enough with the product to be able to fix it when there is this kind of issue.
Read full review Support Rating When I have had questions or needed technical support, I have received a very prompt response to my emails. The answers are concise and if there are instructions they are easy to follow and implement. All interactions I have had with the Jolt team have been a very positive experience.
Read full review Implementation Rating Jolt is user-friendly and was an easy implementation. Held a couple of training classes for our management on how to use the product.
Read full review Alternatives Considered Chowly was not as good as
Checkmate , though I cannot in good faith recommend either. We ended up switching over to
Checkmate after a year with Chowly due to our dissatisfaction with the service.
Read full review Jolt provides a full house of solutions. I would have to go with at least two of the other companies to capture all the solutions I was looking for. Jolt gave me all of it. I also want to be clear that other companies promised solutions that they hadn't built out yet. Jolt is upfront and honest about things they are working on, but they won't sell them to you as a means to get you in, only to disappoint you. I have a lot of respect for that.
Read full review Return on Investment Required a lot of attention from upper management to maintain Enabled orders from Caviar to go through to the POS without staff needing to enter the orders manually, saving on time and labor Due to frequent changes in our menu, Chowly could not handle these and needed to remap every single time there was a menu change. Read full review Food safety processes have reduced significant amount of time managing. Cleanliness- Saved some labor dollars here by implementing a more consistent process. Added some training videos on cleanliness to help give a clear message of the expectation. Recipe Management- We have saved thousands on having the ability to upload live recipes and be global rather than having the paper copies of recipes laying around and possibly not being up to date. Read full review ScreenShots