Archive for January, 2010


The Best Foods You Are Not Eating Are At Modmarket

Anthony Pigliacampo — Monday, January 11th, 2010

This is cool.  The NYT ran an article this weekend called the ‘The 11 Best Foods You Are Not Eating’.  You can read it here.  Of the 11, 8 of them are ingredients we use here at Modmarket.  Check out this list and where you can find them at the Mod:

Beets: Topping on our salads

Cabbage: Topping on our salad – give the Mongolian a shot.

Swiss chard: A staple in our mixed greens mix

Cinnamon: We use this in our Pumpkin Pie Dessert Flatbread – it is seasonal though, so you will have to wait till next year to try it again.

Pomegranate juice: Try our POM flatbread, complete with a pomegranite balsamic glaze

Pumpkin seeds: Topping for our salad – goes great with honey mustard dressing

Blueberries: As soon as they come back in season, our favorite berry will again make an appearance on our salad line

Canned pumpkin: Pumpkin Pie flatbread strikes again!

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Yellow Scene Loves Nutella

Anthony Pigliacampo — Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Cool little shout out to our dessert flatbread in Yellow Scene Magazine.  If you have not read it before, Yellow Scene writes about all the cool goings on in the Front Range.  Check out our mention here.  We agree with their assessment.

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Our First Free Lunch Winners

Anthony Pigliacampo — Tuesday, January 5th, 2010


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So we just launched a new program where every week we pick a handful of peeps from our mailing list and send them a coupon for a free lunch.  After we emailed our first round of winners today, Jordan and Jenaka wasted no time and came down to the Mod to score about $25.00 worth of free, tasty food.  Just think, that could be you next week (assuming you sign up for our list).

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Give Us Feedback!!

Anthony Pigliacampo — Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Regular visitors to the site will notice a new little red tab on the right side of the homepage that says ‘Feedback’.  This is a very cool feature we just added which allows us to capture feedback and ideas from our customers.  Modmarket was designed from the beginning to be a flexible framework that would evolve to not just what we thought was the ultimate fast food restaurant, but to what our customers thought was the ultimate fast food restaurant. A key component of this is gathering feedback and suggestions.  The little app we are using called UserVoice allows us to capture feedback and ideas, have people vote on them and also have us update the Modmarket community on what we are doing with the feedback.  It has only been live for 24 hours at this point and we have already begun a great dialogue with come customers on things they would like to see change at the Mod.  I think this is a neat example of how we can use technology to make our restaurant just a little bit better than what people expect.  Good stuff.

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10 things for 2010

Anthony Pigliacampo — Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

Here is a little list of 10 things Modmarket is going to try and do in 2010.
1. update our blog more regularly: we have been terrible about doing this, it is becoming a higher priority for me this year
2. update our facebook page with more coupons: we have a ton of fans and have done a horrid job of sending them cool coupons and whatnot. that is going to change soon.
3. figure out how to market to the gluten free community in Boulder: i think we have one of the best selections of gluten free food in all of Boulder and we need to make sure all the gluten haters in Boulder get wind of this.
4. decorate our slot: our long slot in our north wall is begging to be brightened up. we are open to suggestions, but right now we are leaning towards some cool modern wallpaper designs.
5. host a saturday brunch – our pizzas taste amazing with an egg on top – we need to sort out how get a bunch of peeps into the store one Saturday morning to try this out
6. get bike jerseys emblazoned with Modmarket logos and whatnot
7. buy more produce directly from farms – we missed the major part of the growing season last summer b/c we opened in September, but this year we are going to try and source even more local produce during the summer months
8. cater more events: last month, we catered an awesome 400 person event. it was fun, the food was awesome and we need to do more of these
9. figure out a happy hour schedule/menu: we have cheap beer and wine all of the time, but we need to create a mod happy hour schedule. our side of Boulder needs one.
10. get our online ordering system live: it is ridiculous you have to call to place an order. our online setup needs to be pushed live. hopefully we can do this in the next few weeks.

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