Branded Hospitality
Branded Hospitality is a New York-based platform that drives growth and transformation in the food service and hospitality industries through three integrated lines: venture investments, solutions, and media. With more than 25 years of industry experience, it connects emerging brands, cutting-edge technologies, and capital to accelerate success. Its venture investments back innovative technologies and scalable concepts reshaping hospitality, providing capital and strategic guidance to entrepreneurs and startups. In its solutions business, Branded Hospitality develops tailored programs with corporate partners to improve operational efficiency, broaden brand visibility, and open new markets, including influencer marketing, digital storytelling, and B2B partnerships. As a media company, it creates and distributes content through channels such as its award-winning podcast The Hospitality Hangout, reaching decision-makers and industry leaders to foster dialogue and share insights. The firm emphasizes practical support and strategic guidance to portfolio companies and partners to drive growth and industry-wide change.
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Michael Schatzber
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Past deals in Restaurants
Mr Bing Foods
Series A in 2024
Mr Bing Foods is a producer of sauces and condiments inspired by East Asian and northern Chinese street flavors. Originating in 2012 as a Hong Kong street food kiosk concept, the company expanded into bottled sauces after customers requested retail availability, launching chili crisp and related products in grocery stores. Its non-GMO, gluten-free, vegan and kosher-certified offerings include chili crisp and sriracha sauces crafted to deliver bold, authentic flavors for eggs, rice, noodles, pizzas, and more. The brand distributes to thousands of outlets, including grocery stores, restaurants, colleges, office campuses, and stadiums, and aims to make traditional street-food flavors accessible to home cooks and operators while emphasizing health-conscious and sustainable choices.
ARI Venture Studio
Pre Seed Round in 2024
ARI Venture Studio is a pioneering venture studio established in 2024 and located in Dallas, Texas. It specializes in developing innovative technology solutions tailored specifically for the restaurant industry. As the first of its kind in this niche, ARI Venture Studio aims to address the unique challenges faced by restaurants through strategic investment and development of cutting-edge technologies. By combining industry expertise with a focus on technological advancement, ARI Venture Studio seeks to enhance operational efficiency and improve customer experiences within the restaurant sector.
LDV Hospitality
Venture Round in 2024
LDV Hospitality is a boutique firm specializing in creating authentic dining and cocktail experiences. It designs, operates, and manages signature restaurant brands and tailored hospitality services for iconic hotels, ensuring guests enjoy unique and memorable experiences.
Big Chicken
Series A in 2024
Big Chicken is a restaurant chain specializing in chicken dishes, including popcorn chicken, crispy chicken sandwiches, tenders, macaroni and cheese, and hand-crafted ice cream shakes. They also offer kid's meals and desserts.
JUICER
Venture Round in 2022
JUICER automates pricing strategies for restaurants using machine learning algorithms. By analyzing historical sales data, it optimizes menu prices in real-time to maximize revenue during peak periods, boost volume during slower times, and enhance customer experience by offering deals to price-sensitive customers while maintaining demand patterns.
Ovation
Seed Round in 2022
Ovation Up, Inc is a technology company based in Orem, Utah, founded in 2017, that specializes in online review and customer feedback analysis. The company offers a platform that enables businesses, particularly in the restaurant sector, to enhance customer experience and manage their online reputation. By leveraging kiosks, QR codes, and web/mobile applications, Ovation allows business owners to gather customer insights and facilitate engagement with dissatisfied customers. The platform supports text marketing strategies to invite customers back, helping to convert them into loyal advocates. Ovation's services are designed to improve customer retention and increase revenue by driving higher engagement rates and fostering positive online reviews, making it significantly more effective than traditional feedback methods.
Tablz
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Tablz develops a three-dimensional hospitality platform that enables diners to select and upgrade to preferred tables or sections, enhancing the dining experience. The platform helps hospitality brands improve guest satisfaction by solving the challenge of seating choice and allows venues to monetize dining space through supply and demand pricing of coveted real estate. By aligning pricing with chair and table value, it supports reduced costs, streamlined workflows, and better guest service for restaurants.
Hone
Venture Round in 2022
Hone is a software developer that creates restaurant management solutions designed to improve operational efficiency and profitability. Its platform helps operators set and track weekly business goals, integrates bookkeeping and reporting, and provides operational insights. It also monitors managers’ logs and automatically assigns tasks, helping restaurant teams stay organized and focused on guest experience. By combining financial and operational data in one system, Hone supports operators in optimizing performance, labor management, and processes without losing the emphasis on hospitality.
Blanket
Venture Round in 2022
Blanket, Inc. is a task management and compliance software company based in Brooklyn, New York, founded in 2018. It specializes in providing solutions tailored for multi-unit restaurant operators, focusing on various aspects of operational efficiency including employee engagement, communication, facility maintenance, food safety and quality assurance. Blanket also offers tools for team building and talent development, aiming to enhance overall workplace productivity and compliance within the restaurant industry.
Incentivio
Seed Round in 2022
Incentivio is a developer of an intelligent guest engagement platform tailored for the restaurant industry, aiming to enhance the dining experience in the digital age. The platform supports restaurants in acquiring new customers, boosting visit frequency and spending, and fostering loyalty among both first-time visitors and repeat patrons. By leveraging a combination of online ordering, white-label apps, loyalty programs, analytics, and guest journey management, Incentivio provides a comprehensive system that helps restaurants improve customer retention while also reducing operational costs. Its focus on data-driven marketing and machine learning upsell strategies enables restaurants to maximize revenue and establish lasting connections with their guests.
Bite
Seed Round in 2022
Founded in 2015, Bite Inc. specializes in digital ordering solutions for the hospitality industry. Its primary offerings include bitekiosk, a kiosk ordering software for guests, and biteFLASH, a QR code-based mobile interface for contactless ordering.
Cut+Dry
Seed Round in 2022
Cut+Dry specializes in streamlining food service operations via its e-commerce platform. It offers online ordering, product discovery, delivery tracking, and payment services, connecting farms to kitchens through real-time tracking.
Ingest
Seed Round in 2022
Ingest is a data management and analytics platform designed for restaurants and food & beverage retailers. It integrates with various business tools to connect disparate data sources, providing real-time insights through interactive dashboards, PDF reports, and CSV exports. This enables better decision-making by uncovering hard-to-reach metrics.
Curbit
Seed Round in 2021
Founded in 2020, Curbit develops an AI-powered platform that helps restaurants automate and optimize their takeout and delivery operations. Its application enables consumers to order food from local restaurants in advance, drive to the store, and wait in their car for contactless delivery.
Curbit
Convertible Note in 2021
Founded in 2020, Curbit develops an AI-powered platform that helps restaurants automate and optimize their takeout and delivery operations. Its application enables consumers to order food from local restaurants in advance, drive to the store, and wait in their car for contactless delivery.
GoTab
Convertible Note in 2021
GoTab is a hospitality commerce platform designed to assist large and mid-sized restaurants, breweries, bars, hotels, and other venues in operating efficiently and profitably. The platform offers a comprehensive suite of services, including ordering, point-of-sale, and kitchen management, while allowing for seamless integration with existing systems. Patrons can place orders and make payments through waitstaff or directly from their mobile devices, providing flexibility in the dining experience. By leveraging GoTab's technology, hospitality organizations can access essential features and actionable data tailored to their specific needs, ultimately leading to reduced operational costs and enhanced guest experiences.
Picnic
Series A in 2021
Picnic, founded in 2016 and based in Seattle, Washington, specializes in food production technology and robotics solutions for the food service and hospitality industries. Formerly known as Vivid Robotics Inc., the company has assembled a team of experienced professionals from both food and technology sectors. Picnic's flagship product, the Pizza Production System, represents a significant innovation in automated food preparation, enabling commercial kitchens to produce hundreds of custom pizzas per hour using chef-selected ingredients and recipes. The company's application facilitates seamless interactions and ordering processes for food companies, enhancing operational efficiency in the industry.
Galley Solutions
Seed Round in 2021
Galley Solutions, Inc. is a software company that specializes in food production management, providing tools designed to enhance the efficiency and profitability of kitchens. Its primary product, Galley, enables restaurants and corporate kitchens to create and manage recipes, compile menus, and generate shopping lists. The software also assists kitchen managers in tracking ingredient costs, managing inventories, and identifying synergies between menu items that utilize shared ingredients. By analyzing food data, Galley empowers food businesses to make informed, data-driven decisions, ultimately improving their profit margins. Founded in 2017 and based in San Diego, California, Galley Solutions aims to streamline operations for caterers and other food service providers, helping them optimize purchasing, reduce waste, and enhance overall kitchen productivity.
Simple
Convertible Note in 2021
Simple is a digital marketplace and restaurant-management platform that connects restaurants, manufacturers, distributors, and suppliers on a single platform to streamline ordering, purchasing, and pricing insights, enabling efficient communication and transactions across the supply chain.
Mighty Quinn's Barbeque
Series A in 2021
Mighty Quinn's Barbeque operates a chain of restaurants that provide an authentic barbeque experience in a fast-casual setting. The establishment is known for its menu featuring all-natural meats, poultry, and a variety of sides, all prepared using quality ingredients and smoked over oak, apple, and cherry wood. In addition to its restaurant operations, Mighty Quinn's Barbeque offers franchising opportunities and catering services, allowing it to extend its reach and share its distinct barbeque offerings with a broader audience.
Picnic
Series A in 2021
Picnic, founded in 2016 and based in Seattle, Washington, specializes in food production technology and robotics solutions for the food service and hospitality industries. Formerly known as Vivid Robotics Inc., the company has assembled a team of experienced professionals from both food and technology sectors. Picnic's flagship product, the Pizza Production System, represents a significant innovation in automated food preparation, enabling commercial kitchens to produce hundreds of custom pizzas per hour using chef-selected ingredients and recipes. The company's application facilitates seamless interactions and ordering processes for food companies, enhancing operational efficiency in the industry.
Chowly
Venture Round in 2021
Chowly develops software that connects restaurant point-of-sale systems with third-party online ordering platforms. The solution automates the transfer of orders from online channels into the POS, eliminating manual entry by staff. Founded in 2015 and based in Chicago, the company aims to streamline restaurant operations, reduce staffing costs, lower errors, improve order controls, and expand revenue by enabling seamless online orders.
Brizo Data
Seed Round in 2021
Brizo FoodMetrics is a leading data and analytics provider for the foodservice industry. Brizo helps the most competitive restauranteurs and restaurant vendors make better informed decisions and win their market.
Mighty Quinn's Barbeque
Seed Round in 2021
Mighty Quinn's Barbeque operates a chain of restaurants that provide an authentic barbeque experience in a fast-casual setting. The establishment is known for its menu featuring all-natural meats, poultry, and a variety of sides, all prepared using quality ingredients and smoked over oak, apple, and cherry wood. In addition to its restaurant operations, Mighty Quinn's Barbeque offers franchising opportunities and catering services, allowing it to extend its reach and share its distinct barbeque offerings with a broader audience.
DriveKindness
Seed Round in 2021
DriveKindness is an online platform that facilitates home meal deliveries from restaurants. It offers services such as driver tracking, marketing tools like coupons and rewards programs, aiming to enhance customer experience while maintaining transparency.
MarginEdge
Series A in 2020
MarginEdge Co. is a technology company that specializes in developing food and beverage tracking and analytics software specifically for the restaurant industry. Founded in 2015 and based in Falls Church, Virginia, the company offers a comprehensive software solution that facilitates invoice management, recipe and product pricing, and food cost optimization. MarginEdge's software automates critical processes and integrates various systems to streamline essential activities such as inventory management, cost tracking, ordering, and recipe management. By automating data entry for invoices and providing real-time insights into kitchen operations, MarginEdge helps restaurants reduce food costs, alleviate invoice-related challenges, and enhance overall operational efficiency.
Ovation
Seed Round in 2020
Ovation Up, Inc is a technology company based in Orem, Utah, founded in 2017, that specializes in online review and customer feedback analysis. The company offers a platform that enables businesses, particularly in the restaurant sector, to enhance customer experience and manage their online reputation. By leveraging kiosks, QR codes, and web/mobile applications, Ovation allows business owners to gather customer insights and facilitate engagement with dissatisfied customers. The platform supports text marketing strategies to invite customers back, helping to convert them into loyal advocates. Ovation's services are designed to improve customer retention and increase revenue by driving higher engagement rates and fostering positive online reviews, making it significantly more effective than traditional feedback methods.
Blanket
Seed Round in 2020
Blanket, Inc. is a task management and compliance software company based in Brooklyn, New York, founded in 2018. It specializes in providing solutions tailored for multi-unit restaurant operators, focusing on various aspects of operational efficiency including employee engagement, communication, facility maintenance, food safety and quality assurance. Blanket also offers tools for team building and talent development, aiming to enhance overall workplace productivity and compliance within the restaurant industry.
Ovation
Seed Round in 2020
Ovation Up, Inc is a technology company based in Orem, Utah, founded in 2017, that specializes in online review and customer feedback analysis. The company offers a platform that enables businesses, particularly in the restaurant sector, to enhance customer experience and manage their online reputation. By leveraging kiosks, QR codes, and web/mobile applications, Ovation allows business owners to gather customer insights and facilitate engagement with dissatisfied customers. The platform supports text marketing strategies to invite customers back, helping to convert them into loyal advocates. Ovation's services are designed to improve customer retention and increase revenue by driving higher engagement rates and fostering positive online reviews, making it significantly more effective than traditional feedback methods.
GoParrot
Series A in 2020
GoParrot is a technology company that offers a platform for restaurant operators, integrating point‑of‑sale systems with AI‑driven ordering, loyalty, and marketing tools. The solution connects to multiple delivery networks and provides data‑driven insights that help restaurants streamline operations, enhance customer engagement, and increase revenue. Clients include Dos Toros, Westville, Doughnut Plant, and Juice Press. The company was founded by Ariel David.
Yumpingo
Series A in 2020
Yumpingo is a hospitality analytics and SaaS provider that helps restaurants capture and understand guest feedback in real time. The platform records sentiment across venues, shifts, dishes, and servers, delivering live Net Promoter Scores and actionable insights. Diners interact with a dedicated tablet to complete reviews, while the system aggregates feedback to reveal location-, server-, and dish-level patterns. Restaurateurs can use these insights to inform menu development, operational improvements, and guest engagement strategies. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in London, with an office in New York, Yumpingo focuses on turning customer sentiment into practical recommendations for restaurant operators.
VROMO
Series A in 2020
VROMO is a developer of delivery management software focused on enhancing the operational efficiency of restaurant brands. The company's platform is designed to streamline delivery processes, improve fulfillment, and reduce both labor and delivery times. By enabling restaurants to optimize their delivery channels, VROMO aims to enhance customer engagement and retention while ultimately increasing profitability for these businesses. The software provides tools that help brands connect with their customers in targeted and strategic ways, contributing to a better overall brand experience and greater customer satisfaction.
VROMO
Seed Round in 2019
VROMO is a developer of delivery management software focused on enhancing the operational efficiency of restaurant brands. The company's platform is designed to streamline delivery processes, improve fulfillment, and reduce both labor and delivery times. By enabling restaurants to optimize their delivery channels, VROMO aims to enhance customer engagement and retention while ultimately increasing profitability for these businesses. The software provides tools that help brands connect with their customers in targeted and strategic ways, contributing to a better overall brand experience and greater customer satisfaction.
Yumpingo
Series A in 2019
Yumpingo is a hospitality analytics and SaaS provider that helps restaurants capture and understand guest feedback in real time. The platform records sentiment across venues, shifts, dishes, and servers, delivering live Net Promoter Scores and actionable insights. Diners interact with a dedicated tablet to complete reviews, while the system aggregates feedback to reveal location-, server-, and dish-level patterns. Restaurateurs can use these insights to inform menu development, operational improvements, and guest engagement strategies. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in London, with an office in New York, Yumpingo focuses on turning customer sentiment into practical recommendations for restaurant operators.
GoParrot
Seed Round in 2019
GoParrot is a technology company that offers a platform for restaurant operators, integrating point‑of‑sale systems with AI‑driven ordering, loyalty, and marketing tools. The solution connects to multiple delivery networks and provides data‑driven insights that help restaurants streamline operations, enhance customer engagement, and increase revenue. Clients include Dos Toros, Westville, Doughnut Plant, and Juice Press. The company was founded by Ariel David.
Bbot
Convertible Note in 2019
Bbot, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in order and payment solutions tailored for the hospitality industry, including bars, restaurants, hotels, breweries, food halls, and multi-vendor setups. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Astoria, New York. Bbot's platform enables these establishments to create digital menus and offers guest-controlled, contactless ordering and payment options. This configurable solution is designed to streamline food and beverage operations, enhance customer experience, and help businesses increase revenue while reducing staffing costs. The platform features secure payment processing, integration with existing point-of-sale systems, and tailored customer support, making it a valuable asset for hospitality organizations looking to improve efficiency and service quality.
Chowly
Series A in 2017
Chowly develops software that connects restaurant point-of-sale systems with third-party online ordering platforms. The solution automates the transfer of orders from online channels into the POS, eliminating manual entry by staff. Founded in 2015 and based in Chicago, the company aims to streamline restaurant operations, reduce staffing costs, lower errors, improve order controls, and expand revenue by enabling seamless online orders.
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