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Restaurants & QSR

Fire the right offer while they're still deciding what to order.

GeoNest detects the counter dwell, the drive-thru lane, or the walk-out — and dispatches an email, SMS, or push moment from the same fence you already drew.

Illustrative mockup of a geofence drawn around a San Diego neighborhood, with a phone lock screen showing SMS, email, WhatsApp, and push notifications all firing as a device enters the fence

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Use cases

Everything a restaurants & QSR fence can trigger.

Enter, dwell, and exit mean something specific here — this is what that looks like in practice.

SMS · JUST NOW
Skip the line
Your usual order is one tap away — just pull up to the window.
Triggered by: enter — drive-thru fence

Enter

Drive-thru vs. dine-in

Set different dwell thresholds for the drive-thru lane versus the dining room, so a quick pass-through and a sit-down visit can trigger different campaigns.

EnterSMSMultiple fences
PUSH · JUST NOW
Today's combo: $2 off
Add a drink and side to your order for $2 off, today only.
Triggered by: dwell 3 min

Dwell

Lunch-rush counter offer

A dwell near the counter during peak hours is a decision-in-progress — fire a limited-time combo offer before they order.

DwellPushSMS
PUSH · JUST NOW
You earned 40 points
Come back this week and redeem for a free side.
Triggered by: exit

Exit

Loyalty push on the way out

Catch a guest as they're leaving with a loyalty-point reminder or a next-visit incentive — timed for while the meal is still fresh.

ExitPushCooldown
3
REST endpoints — that's the whole integration
0
SDKs to bundle — native OS geofencing only
3
channels dispatched from one trigger
2
fence shapes — circle and polygon, both wake-ready

Why teams choose GeoNest

The hard parts are already solved.

Native OS geofencing

Circles and polygons handed to the phone's own geofencing APIs — no continuous background polling.

Three REST endpoints

Register, fetch geofences, report an event — that's the entire integration surface.

Per-app scoping

Every fence, device, and campaign is scoped to a single app — nothing crosses over.

Reuses your channels

Dispatches through your existing email and SMS infrastructure, plus Firebase Cloud Messaging for push — nothing new to wire up.

Questions

Before you draw the first fence.

Can we separate drive-thru from dine-in behavior? +

Yes — draw them as separate fences with independent dwell thresholds, since a drive-thru pass and a dine-in visit look very different in duration.

Does this add any friction at the counter or drive-thru window? +

No — there's nothing for staff or guests to do. The trigger fires from the device's own location in the background, with no scanning or app-opening required.

Will this drain a guest's battery if they visit daily? +

No — GeoNest hands fences to the phone's native geofencing APIs, which are designed for exactly this kind of repeat, low-power monitoring.

What happens if two locations are close together? +

Each fence is scoped and evaluated independently, so overlapping fences from two nearby locations don't interfere with each other.

Restaurants & QSR

Set your first counter or drive-thru fence.

Tell us which moment you want to catch — the dwell, the drive-thru pass, or the walk-out — and we'll help you map it.