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Mobile Loyalty Passport Apps Keep Craft Beverage Makers Thriving Through COVID and Beyond

2025-03-17T19:39:41-04:00June 14th, 2022|Press Releases|

BOCA RATON, FLORIDA—When the COVID pandemic forced craft wineries, distilleries, and breweries to close their tasting rooms, craft beverage guilds and associations across the country turned to Daruma Tech’s award-winning mobile passport apps as a creative way to promote takeout sales and keep member businesses afloat. And thanks to the apps’ ability to keep local craft beverage makers and their customers connected, organizations using the apps have not only survived, but are thriving. The [...]

Capturing Business from Out-of-Town Visitors, As Well As Supportive Locals, Is A Mission For The Colorado Distillers Guild

2025-03-17T19:40:54-04:00May 24th, 2022|Press Releases|

BOCA RATON, FLORIDA—Software developer Daruma Tech, creator of award-winning mobile passport apps for artisanal food and beverage lovers, is moving into the distilled spirit space with a new app commissioned by the Colorado Distillers Guild.  With the app, a digitized upgrade of the guild’s paper Colorado Spirits Trail map, craft spirit aficionados will be able to find the distillery and tasting room closest to them; learn about the state’s distilleries, their offerings, and hours [...]

Daruma Tech Enhances Signature Loyalty Apps, Marketing Platform For Greater Versatility And Impact On Economic Growth

2025-03-11T15:02:21-04:00April 6th, 2022|Press Releases|

BOCA RATON, FL, UNITED STATES, April 6, 2022-- Diners, shoppers, and tourists across North America will soon have even more options for engaging with their favorite places and locally made specialty products while discovering new ones, thanks to the new suite of upgrades to the pioneering mobile loyalty apps for the tourism, hospitality, and specialty products market developed by Boca Raton, Florida-based software developers Daruma Tech. With the enhancements to the apps, guilds and other [...]

The Local Explorers Trail App: The Smart Way to Build Foot Traffic

2025-03-11T15:04:59-04:00November 1st, 2021|Press Releases|

As shoppers and tourists hit the road again, visitors’ bureaus, artisanal guilds, and chambers of commerce are looking for high-impact, cost-effective ways to attract visitors and their support of local businesses. They don’t want to just tell visitors what they’ve got to offer—they want visitors to have an amazing experience they can’t wait to share with their friends. And they don’t want visitors to just have a great time—they want to incentivize them to come [...]

Culinary Tourism Goes High-Tech: Taste of Nova Scotia App Elevates Local Food Exploration

2025-03-12T20:19:22-04:00October 6th, 2021|Press Releases|

The app, built on Daruma Tech’s powerful Local Explorers platform, will allow users to experience over 200 of the province's restaurants and craft producers by exploring three trails—the Lobster Trail, the Chowder Trail, and the Good Cheer (craft beverage) Trail. Each trail features stops throughout the province offering locally sourced specialties. With the app, users will be able to discover locally caught seafood, artisanal coffee houses, restaurants, wineries, distilleries, and a wide variety of [...]

Daruma Launches App For Promotion of Culinary Tourism, Restaurants and Agricultural Producers

2025-03-11T15:07:10-04:00October 6th, 2021|Press Releases|

HALIFAX, NS—Nova Scotia’s residents and visitors now have a powerful way to discover and experience the province’s famed seafood chowder, lobster, restaurants, and varied craft products and beverages, including coffee, wine, beer, spirits, and cider, thanks to a mobile passport app built by award-winning software developers Daruma Tech for Taste of Nova Scotia (TONS), a not-for-profit, membership based marketing association representing over 200 restaurant, producer/processor and industry members. The app, built on Daruma Tech’s [...]

Digital Loyalty Passport App to Promote Tourism, Agriculture, and Regional Commerce

2025-03-11T15:09:10-04:00August 18th, 2021|Press Releases|

BOCA RATON, FL, UNITED STATES -- With small businesses under so much pressure due to COVID-19, communities are now finding it even more important to leverage new tools to engage consumers and support "Buy Local" and Economic Development campaigns so, thirsty travelers in Maryland now have a fun and easy new way to discover and connect with the state’s growing number of craft breweries, wineries, and distilleries, thanks to the new Maryland Craft Beverage [...]

Ohio On Tap App Featured in the Columbus Dispatch

2025-07-09T22:00:14-04:00January 14th, 2020|Press Releases|

Ohio On Tap App Featured in The Columbus Dispatch Our friends at Ohio on Tap were featured in The Columbus Dispatch recently! The article gives recognition to the “Ohio on Tap” app, created by Brewers Marketing. Craft beer lovers around Ohio have downloaded the app and started to conquer the virtual passport – one of the most popular features of the app. Justin Hemminger, deputy director of the Ohio Craft Brewers Association, which is [...]

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