Evan Addams is a graduate of Grove City College’s entrepreneurship program. After graduation, he eventually acquired and continued to develop the nowait app. Nowait is an application that seeks to help users avoid long wait times when going to a restaurant. By using the application, users can see how long the wait is at a restaurant on any particular night, and can put their name on the wait list if they wish to do so. However, instead of having to be physically present at the restaurant, the user can wait elsewhere and show up right as their table becomes available. Nowait is able to provide this service to users by partnering with restaurants and integrating their product with the restaurants’ booking system. When Evan initially acquired nowait, they only had a couple partner restaurants, however, now they have partnered with most restaurants in the Pittsburgh areas and have began to partner with larger restaurant chains as well. Yelp recently invested in nowait, which Evan hopes will allow them to expand their business even further.
as someone who often goes out to eat, this app would be very handy, its very cool to see someone who attended the same school as i do become successful.
Awesome to hear about another successful Grover entrepreneur. Interesting to see entrepreneurship that isn’t as much a new idea as it is a pivot of an existing idea. Will have to check this out the next time I’m going out
Awesome to know that the products of Grove City are going on to do great things. I use nowait all the time when I am going to dine out. It is great because you can check if the wait is long at any restaurant. This app fits great in our busy world because it saves people a lot of time. Instead of sitting and waiting for your table you can be doing something productive.