CASE STUDYPizza Restaurant

How the Chowly Platform Gives Pete's New Haven Style Apizza a “One-Stop Shop” for Growth

Washington, DC · New Haven-style Pizza & Italian Cuisine · 1 Location

Pete's New Haven Style Apizza
$68,504Direct online salesfirst full month — up 22% from their previous Toast website & online ordering
5,294Direct orders they ownin their first 3½ months
24.9%Email open ratewell above the 18% industry benchmark
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Meet Pete's New Haven Style Apizza

Pete's New Haven Style Apizza has served the Washington, DC community for 16 years. Co-owners Thomas Marr and Tri Nguyen oversee the restaurant's back- and front-of-house operations, leaving little time for marketing to become either owner's full-time job.

CUISINENew Haven-style Pizza & Italian Cuisine
LOCATIONS1 Location
POSToast
CO-OWNERSThomas Marr & Tri Nguyen
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The Challenge

With all of those responsibilities on their plate, marketing could never be either of their full-time jobs. “We're not marketing people. We're restaurant people,” Thomas explained. They'd tried outsourcing marketing to another service before, but didn't see the results that they were expecting.

Chowly gave the team one place for the pieces they didn't have time for. “We use Toast as a point of sale, but they don't help with marketing,” Tri explained. “Chowly is like a one-stop shop,” Tri noted. “Everything's there. You don't need to go to four different platforms, it's all there: the hosting, the website, the marketing, the support.”

Before → With Chowly

BEFORE

Fragmented across platforms

Outsourced marketingPrevious service did not deliver the expected results
Toast POS + Toast website & online orderingKept the POS — but the website and ordering had no marketing engine behind them
Separate platformsHosting, website, marketing, and support lived across different tools
Disconnected tools and support
WITH CHOWLY

One Connected Platform

Get FoundGet OrdersKeep CustomersMake More Money
Everything working together.

Platform Highlights

The platform capabilities that made the biggest impact.

Chowly local search visibility dashboard for Pete's New Haven Style Apizza

Working with Chowly gives Pete's New Haven Style Apizza the marketing tools to be successful and connect with customers:

Email marketing

Chowly takes the lead on emailing customers at the right time with promo codes and appropriate discounts to drive new and recurring business.

Customer feedback surveys

Since implementing Chowly surveys, the team can personally interact with customers in a meaningful way.

“I love it. Customers are giving you honest feedback because they care about you.”

— Tri Nguyen

Online presence

Chowly takes care of the restaurant's online presence from the website to their Google My Business profile, tracking when potential customers are visiting and what channels they're coming from.

Google Ads

Chowly manages the restaurant's Google ad campaigns, using AI to identify high-converting keywords and optimizing the budget for the best return.

Thomas Marr
Anybody who's ever looking for any assistance in terms of website hosting, marketing – all these things that we're getting – if I was ever talking to another restaurant owner, I would recommend Chowly.
Thomas MarrCo-owner, Pete's New Haven Style Apizza

Results

$68,504Direct online salesfirst full month — up 22% from their previous Toast website & online ordering
5,294Direct orders they ownin their first 3½ months
24.9%Email open ratewell above the 18% industry benchmark
Day-to-day support that feels like a true partnership
Honest, meaningful customer feedback through surveys
A platform they'd recommend to other restaurant owners

Frequently Asked

Frequently Asked Questions

Why does Pete's New Haven call Chowly a “one-stop shop”?

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Pete's New Haven's co-owners describe themselves as “restaurant people, not marketing people.” Chowly gives them one partner for the digital and marketing work they don't have time to manage, so they don't have to juggle multiple platforms.

Does Chowly work for pizza restaurants?

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Yes. Pete's New Haven, a New Haven-style pizza restaurant, kept its Toast POS and switched its website and online ordering to Chowly. It did $68,504 in direct online sales in its first full month on Chowly — up 22% from its previous Toast website and online ordering — and nearly $240,000 in its first four months.

Is Chowly a good fit for restaurants in Washington, DC?

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Yes. Pete's New Haven, a Washington, DC pizza restaurant, uses Chowly to support online discovery and customer engagement through its website, online presence, email marketing, and Google Ads. Its top-ranking keywords include discovery terms that create potential for new business.

What Chowly products and features does Pete's New Haven use?

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Pete's New Haven uses Chowly for online ordering, website hosting, email marketing, customer feedback surveys, Google Ads, online-presence management, and day-to-day support—all within one connected platform.

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