Full Society is the future of the restaurant going experience. The app — which is headed by Carey Business School MBA candidate Paige Cantlin — allows diners to instantly pay, split and tip directly from their web capable mobile phones. And the cherry on top? At the end of payment, users are encouraged to donate to a local nonprofit that works to solve hunger.
According to an article on The Hub, Cantlin recently launched a beta version of the app to select restaurants in Baltimore with more to follow. One restaurant, Woodberry Kitchen, is also stakeholder in the company.
The app will be a free download once it’s officially released to the public this winter for iPhones and for Androids. Users set up their payment method and are able split bills with other users on the spot, based either on the items they ordered or percentages. And the kicker? Payment is automatic so no more waiting around for credit cards to be processed by your waiter. As for the nonprofit portion of the company’s business plan, Full Society’s goal is to provide funds for “one meal for someone in need locally for every table that pays their bill through our app.”
Cantlin came up with the idea for Full Society while taking Entrepreneurial Ventures at Carey, where she and a team “did a lot of market research and interviewed restaurant owners, and studied the technology in restaurants,” in order to find ways to improve the industry. The nonprofit aspect of the app came into focus after a survey the team conducted found that 90 percent of respondents said they’d be willing to make donations through the app.
Full Society hopes to expand to at least 100 restaurants in Baltimore before exploring the possibility of branching out to other cities.