Case Study: Urbanspoon helps consumers find open restaurants during Hurricane Sandy with CallFire SMS

Urbanspoon reaches tens of thousands during Hurricane Sandy with CallFire

Urbanspoon, a restaurant recommendation service, needed a reliable communications solution to instantly reach thousands of restaurants to verify their status during the Hurricane Sandy emergency. They turned to vendor CallFire and used its affordable SMS text messaging service to solve this challenge.

CallFire's solution enabled Urbanspoon to quickly upload its contact list and deploy a mass text blast asking restaurants to respond if they were open. This process allowed Urbanspoon to compile a definitive list of open restaurants for consumers during the disaster, providing an invaluable service to millions of displaced victims. The simplicity and efficiency of CallFire's application made reaching tens of thousands of people with critical emergency information a simple task.

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