Hmmmm...HMSHost operates 2,500 facilities at 107 airports worldwide and 106 travel plazas in the United States and Canada. - HMSHost, is world-renowned for creating innovative concession plans in travel venues. HMSHost has revenues of more than $2.0 billion and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Autogrill S.p.A. Together, HMSHost, HMSHost Europe and the rest of the Autogrill Group are recognized leaders in retail, food and beverage concessions serving people on the move. With operations in 15 countries around the globe, the combined Company has annual revenues over $4.0 billion.
"The future for uWink lies not with its current three restaurant locations, but rather with the company’s potential to proliferate the market with applications and services to make things easier for people, and to help businesses squeeze higher margins out of their current operations."
"In essence, uWink will be a pick-and-shovel company selling the software and systems so that other companies can then in turn duke it out and compete with each other for consumer’s dollars, all the while, uWink sits back and enjoys their nice and juicy high margin recurring revenue."
What exactly is the purpose of this web site? Is it a beta site, soon to be the new uWink site? Seems like it is covering all of the products that they may currently have underdevelopment.
With a development staff of only 4-5 (based on their R&D expenses) these are big promises. Let's hope they don't run out of money before they can sell something tangible. Wish that SG&A had more tangible results.
If they sized down somewhat, they would have a real competitive advantage with the restaurant as a base.
They should pitch the uWink "Card-Less" Loyalty Program to casinos. I have a loyalty card for every casino I have ever been to and it is a pain in the butt keeping track of them.