We often receive feedback about the look and feel of the site – and one frequent comment is “it’s very green” Good call we think and so our new design takes the unprecedented step of adding another couple of colours into the mix – and we think it looks awesome.

We’ve increased the size of the site width wise to give more space for information and the logo has gone brown! With the addition of some extra colours the site feels fresh an easy to use and we are pleased with how it has evolved.

The core function of the site and the way you build up an order hasn’t changed – as that was one thing that we’ve been told is really great about the current site.

The menu page has also undergone some significant work to make it clearer and easier to use. Your order will stay fixed on the right even when you scroll down so you don’t have to remember what you’ve ordered and we’ve improved our filtering and searching features.

We’ve still some work to do to get this completed but we hope that by the end of the summer the new design will be live. Until that time we welcome any feedback from you – the people who will be using it. Tell us what you like about the current site and tell us if there is anything it doesn’t do that it should.

A life changing discovery? No. Pointless? Maybe. A way to tell people about things you are involved with and think are great? Definitely.

Well at iTakeout we don’t like to be left out in the cold when there is pointless mouse-clicking to be done. You may have noticed that we have introduced some ‘Like’ buttons directly onto the iTakeout site. No longer do you need to order your favourite takeout and then write something like ‘just ordered from iTakeout’ manually on your profile. You can simply click the button and all your friends will know that you ‘like’ us – and we hope they will like us too.

On your preferences page (click your name in the top-right when you are logged in) you can tell your friends that you like iTakeout. Go on, be nice and give it a click!

More usefully, on each restaurant page, under your order on the right you can tell everyone that you recommend that particular restaurant. So if you enjoy a restaurants food or have just had a good meal, take the plunge and recommend them to your friends.

Will you enjoy using these new features as much as you meal itself? We hope not – but it’s a bit of fun. So get clicking!

We’ve recently had a few questions about card payments on the site and so thought it was a good idea to make the information available to all.

Here are the questions:

Why can’t I use my card on all restaurants?

Some of our partner restaurants opt to only receive payment for orders in cash. This is an option that we make available to them – if you would like to use your card with your favourite restaurant and they currently don’t accept it, let us know and we’ll let them know!

My card was refused saying the transaction was declined. Why?

Good question – there could be any number of reasons:

• Your bank declined the card perhaps because of insufficient funds or some other reason.
• Your billing address did not match the address your bank holds. We will only accept cards whose addresses match – so make sure that is typed correctly.
• Other information such as your security code or issue number wasn’t entered correctly.

Do you accept all kinds of credit cards?

We accept most kinds of credit cards:

• Visa
• Mastercard
• Switch
• Solo
• Some Maestro cards

We currently cannot accept Maestro cards with 18-digit long card numbers or Maestro cards without an issue number or start date. These are normally issued by HSBC and some scottish banks. We hope to support these cards in the future.

So there we go! If you have any further questions, don’t hesitate to get in touch…