THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
TECHNOLOGY
PAGE 7
Online food-ordering service offers student deals
KYLE PAPPAS
kpappas@kansan.com
If you've checked your university email at all over the past year, you may have noticed that there's a new and easy way to order food from some of your favorite Lawrence food stops.
OrderUp has been active for approximately 15 months and provides Lawrence residents and students with the option of ordering food online, as well as alerting them on local specials.
"We pride ourselves on being the only online ordering provider in town," said Trevor Anderson, owner of OrderUp Lawrence. "We offer special deals to students and even have an app that makes it very easy as well."
OrderUp currently offers online ordering for 11 Lawrence eateries, including student favorites such as Pizza Shuttle, Wheat State Pizza and Bigg's Barbecue.
"I think OrderUp exposes our menu to people that otherwise wouldn't see it," said Doug Holiday, owner of Biggs. "Also, we get a lot of takeout business and a large
segment of those people prefer to order online."
Students that have utilized the new service agree that OrderUp is effective at getting the word out on local deals and increasing the efficiency of orders placed from home.
"I follow [OrderUp] on Twitter,
so I just scroll through my feed and
"We pride ourselves on being the only online ordering provider in town."
TREVOR ANDERSON
OrderUp Lawrence owner
see many different deals that are available at that time," said Schuyler Johnson, a senior from Topeka. "It's pretty convenient and makes ordering easier too."
Online food ordering has become a much bigger market over the last decade, with many expecting it to surpass picking up the phone in the near future.
In 2004, only 10 percent of Americans placed an order for food online, with that number growing to 33 percent by 2011, according to the OrderUp website.
Lawrence seems to fit this trend, as Anderson says that OrderUp sales in Lawrence alone have increased 300 percent over the last three months.
"Everything can be bought online and food is one of the last markets to get into that," said Anderson. "It's fragmented, ever changing, and takes a team of local people to make it work, which is why it's late."
Lawrence is currently one of 26 markets that OrderUp operates in, the vast majority of these markets being college towns.
Anderson thinks this is exactly the type of environment that OrderUp thrives in.
"For us, it definitely helps to have the tight knit community of a college town," he said. "Lawrence is a great market for OrderUp to be in and a great thing for students to utilize to save time and money."
Edited by Jessica Mitchell
Wheat State Pizza is one of 11 Lawrence restaurants students can order from online using OrderUp.
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The fifth season of Fox's hit series "Glee" premieres tonight. This season will feature several changes in the cast.
'Gleeks' look forward to fifth season after cliffhanger
CALLIE BYRNES
cbyrnes@kansan.com
If you've been keeping up with "Glee," you know there's a lot going on at McKinley High. In the last season alone we've covered catfishing, an almost-school shooting, an almost-wedding, a real wedding and a possible proposal. Let's not forget that half the cast graduated and moved on to broader pastures, most notably New York. Just when it feels like they've covered everything, season five just might get crazier after it premieres tonight at 8 p.m.
Last season ended with an unexpected wedding for Will and Emma. With the status of this on-again-off-again couple finally locked into place, the standing of
another power couple came into question as the episode ended with Blaine holding a ring box behind his back.
If you're wondering about any big changes, you just have to look at the cast to see that McKinley is preparing to take a new direction. According to MTV News, Demi Lovato will be joining the cast for a short period of time to play a possible love-interest for Santana in New York. Adam Lambert has also nabbed a role on the show, though it is unclear what his role will be.
As for the rest of the cast, Heather Morris, better known as the dumbblond-turned-genius Brittany S. Pierce, won't be returning for this season. Other actors that were bumped off the list include Amber Riley, Mark Salling, Harry Shum,
Jr., and Dianna Agron.
Perhaps the most notable absence will be that of Finn Hudson, played by Cory Monteith. After Monteith's unexpected death in July, fans have speculated how they're going to deal with his character on the show. The third episode of the season, titled "The Quarterback," will be a tribute episode to Monteith as McKinley mourns Finn's death.
That leaves us with a lot of questions left for this season to answer. Is there hope for Kurt and Blaine? Will the crew in New York make ends meet? How are they going to deal with Finn's death? And that, my fellow Gleeks, is why we can't stop watching.
Edited by Jessica Mitchell
Avoid 'Breaking Bad' spoilers on Twitter with Netflix creation
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KAITLYN HILGERS
khiligers@kansan.com
Someone at Netflix must have read my article. Remember that whiny piece I wrote about spoilers? Well, a solution has finally been created. It's called Spoiler Foiler.
Spoiler Foiler, found at spoiler-foiler.com, was created by Netflix in preparation for the series finale of "Breaking Bad." It was made for the people who are unable to watch the series finale on Sunday night, but still want to use Twitter. The premise is simple: you go to the page, log in with your Twitter username and password, and it takes you to a makeshift Twitter feed. It is still your feed, but the tweets that contain key words related to
Because Netflix picked out general words like "breaking" to yield the best results, some tweets will be blocked that have absolutely nothing to do with the show (for example, some of my breaking news tweets have been blocked). But hey, better safe than sorry, right? And because the web page only emulates your Twitter feed, a user still won't have access to the full site. If you want to view your direct messages, you'll have to log in to the
the show, such as "breaking," "bad" or "white," will not have the actual tweet. These suspected spoilers are blacked out and say "SPOILER WARNING!"! You have the option to click on the tweet in order to reveal it if you're confident that it's not a spoiler.
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real Twitter.
There are ways of fixing your actual Twitter feed so as to block the "Breaking Bad" tweets, but it would require you going in and changing your own personal Twitter filters, which sounds like time you could be spending catching up on "Breaking Bad." As of right now, Spoiler Foiler was only created to block "Breaking Bad" tweets, but hopefully it might catch on for other shows. Take advantage of this tool for avoiding spoilers this Sunday, but don't plan on relying on it forever. If enough time goes by, someone will probably spoil it for you and, remember: there's always Facebook.
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