Friday, November 4, 2011

Luques Restaurant is going Hi-Tech

The Luques Restaurant is our little dining spot inside the hotel where we serve breakfast and lunch including room service 7 days per week from 7am to 2:30pm. Luques is one of the few places that serve breakfast ALL DAY. We also do room service in the evening 4 days per week - Wednesday through Saturday along with our bar snack menu. Our menu is filled with simple California Cuisine that is fresh, local and tasty. Our breakfast specialties are Chilaquiles and Eggs Benedict. For lunch, we are known for our Thai Shrimp and Papaya Salad. We are one of the best values for breakfast and lunch in the Union Square Area and now we are making things even better for our customers through technology.

We now have 3 new Hi-Tech programs that are available to our guests:

  • Stampt


  • Google Wallet


  • LevelUp
Stampt is a mobile app that is a frequent guest reward program. Stampt tracks the number of times one eats with us and after they get a "Stampt" 10 times, they get a free entree. No more membership cards to carry. Let your phone do it all. You can find the app here: http://stampt.com/

All you need to do is download the app on to your mobile device, dine at Luques and show your phone with the app to get credit. Come get Stampt!


Google Wallet and LevelUp are two new more secure ways of paying for purchases using your mobile device instead of a credit card or debit card. You simply maintain an account with Google Wallet or LevelUp and when you want to pay for your purchase at Luques, open the app and we obtain the payment.

Of course, we still take cash just like in the olden days.

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Annual Pumpkin Carving Contest




We just concluded our annual employee pumpkin carving contest and Mao is the winner again!



I think Mao has another career if he decides to give up waiting on tables. He carves a mean pumpkin.



We gave any employee interested in participating a pumpkin to carve and put them out in the lobby for several days leading up to Halloween. We put ballots out and guests and visitors voted for their favorite pumpkin. We gave cash prizes for the top three vote getters.



Thank you for participating!



The front desk ladies got into the spirit and dressed up a front desk kittens