Deliverect connects Maize Blaze with delivery partners to survive the pandemic
After opening her first stall in Camden Market in 2014, the menu of Colombian street food snacks was an instant hit, and Ruth has since enjoyed a residency at Howling Hops brewery in trendy Hackney Wick, East London.
Ruth explains: “We do Colombian fusion-inspired street food. We’ve got one site in our Camden Market kiosk, and then our kitchen residency is our restaurant based in Howling Hops brewery, which has a much wider menu. So there’s the street food and the restaurant side of things.”
The underrepresented cuisine proved popular among Londoners, especially to those on gluten-free and vegan diets, because corn is traditionally used instead of wheat and there is an abundance of delicious plant-based dishes on the menu.
Things were going well for the brand until the pandemic hit and made their face-to-face operations much more difficult. That’s when she turned to Deliverect to manage delivery orders online.
"Now what I can do with the integration between Square and Deliverect is manage it completely myself and have new menus up in 10 minutes." - Ruth Christianson, Founder & Director of Maize Blaze
Seamless menu management with Deliverect’s Square integration
Ruth explains that Deliverect helped her connect with delivery partners and made getting onto them a seamless process when time was of the essence.
“We started delivery not that long ago prompted by the Coronavirus pandemic,” She says, “I was really struggling to get in contact with Uber and Deliveroo and everyone was scrambling to get online. Then by chance, I found Square who introduced me to Deliverect, and then I was basically up online in a few days.”
The integration between POS and payment hardware provider Square and Deliverect proved vital, enabling Ruth to manage orders alone and save on staffing costs.
“Now what I can do with the integration between Square and Deliverect is manage it completely myself and have new menus up in 10 minutes. So I’ll take a picture, I’ll edit on my laptop, upload it to Square, push it out through Deliverect, and within 10 minutes my customers can buy my food.”
"Having at least some kind of reporting system for our deliveries is amazing. It just makes my job a lot easier."
Consistent management of deliveries across multiple locations
As the brand grew, the challenge of managing orders across locations presented itself. Ruth explains how the two sites, one a kitchen residency, and the other a street food kiosk, had different POS systems and different processes.
Deliverect enables her to manage all the orders in one place and keep an eye on deliveries wherever she is.
“Since I integrated Square and Deliverect, I’m able to see all our online orders in one place.” She says, “So for me, having at least some kind of reporting system for our deliveries is amazing. It just makes my job a lot easier.”
As the brand goes from strength to strength, Deliverect offers the opportunity to expand to new locations and take even more orders without the worry of being unable to handle the logistics.
