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Eaternity AG is a software management company based in Zurich, Switzerland, that specializes in the restaurant industry. Founded in 2014 by Judith Ellens and Manuel Klarmann at ETH Zurich, Eaternity provides a platform that offers a real-time calculation engine for addressing allergen and nutrition declarations, as well as assessing the carbon footprint of meals and restaurants. The company's solutions enable restaurant owners to gain valuable insights into their supply chain, facilitating informed decision-making. Eaternity also aims to support organizations globally in calculating the environmental impact of their food products, striving for a sustainable food system within the planet's ecological boundaries. Through its Eaternity Score, the company transparently communicates the environmental effects of various food products, serving both consumers and decision-makers.

Mesa is a dining app designed to assist restaurants in attracting customers during off-peak hours while optimizing their revenue. The platform offers dynamic, time-based discounts that enable restaurants to fill empty tables by providing users with attractive offers. Customers benefit from these discounts by enjoying meals at reduced prices during less busy times, encouraging them to dine out when restaurants typically experience lower traffic. Through this model, Mesa effectively connects restaurants seeking to enhance occupancy with diners looking for savings.

The Dinner Daily, Inc. is a meal-planning service established in 2016 and located in Westford, Massachusetts. The company specializes in creating customized weekly dinner menus and shopping lists tailored to the dietary preferences and culinary needs of families. By linking these meal plans to the weekly specials at local grocery stores, The Dinner Daily enables customers to enjoy simple, affordable, and delicious dinners at home. Its platform facilitates effective planning and budgeting, making it easier for families to prepare meals that meet their specific requirements while maximizing savings on groceries.

travelEZ a TripAdvisor-like service that connects people with accessible places. TravelEZ is proving itself to be a venture capable of improving the status quo. TravelEZ removes the guesswork and hassle of planning by crowdsourcing, gathering, and organizing accessibility information. TravelEZ will initially provide accessibility reviews for over 1,500 restaurants, bars, and cafes. Each accessibility review includes pictures, checklists, and comments on features like entrances, spaciousness, and restrooms.

Check-Eat is a free mobile app that streamlines the food ordering process at restaurants, bringing convenience and a great experience to the customers. Check-Eat features a native online ordering (take-away & dine-in), mobile payments, reservations, loyalty programs, tax invoicing, coupons and much more, all in a single app. Check-Eat is building a standardized customer service platform for the food sector, empowering local restaurants to engage customers through a seamless mobile experience.

Bao Lovers offers franchise fast food model it provides online food delivery.

Deliverart is a software solution designed to streamline delivery and takeaway management for restaurants, dark kitchens, and food chains. It centralizes and manages all orders from various major food delivery platforms through a single interface, allowing users to handle home orders and deliveries efficiently. The platform automates order management and optimizes multi-delivery routes for riders, enhancing productivity and improving coordination between food production and logistics. Deliverart caters to businesses seeking to simplify their operations and boost overall efficiency in their delivery processes.

Nutrifix is a B2B & B2B2C web platform that provides companies with a virtual staff canteen and employees with a personalised weekly meal plan from local restaurants and catering companies that they can have delivered straight to their workplace or order for collection. Companies can use ‘Food as a Benefit’ to reward and retain employees, whilst benefiting from a healthier, more informed and productive workforce; and anonymised data to inform their wellness strategy.

FoodUnite is a food and beverage company that provides customers with tasty food.

Muralise provides residential interior design, commercial interior design, hotel interior design, restaurant interior design, and school interior design services. Their customers inquiries are addressed through phone, email, and online applications.

Food for All is an online platform dedicated to making quality food affordable while reducing food waste. Established in October 2016, the company emerged from a collaboration with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and gained initial support through a successful Kickstarter campaign involving over 650 backers. The platform enables restaurants to sell leftover meals at discounted prices to consumers at the end of the business day. This initiative not only helps eateries minimize food waste but also allows individuals to access nutritious meals at a lower cost. Food for All aims to create a more sustainable food system while providing value to both restaurants and consumers.

Peach partners with local restaurants to provide online lunch delivery services for companies in metropolitan areas such as Seattle, Boston, and Phoenix. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Seattle, the company aims to enhance employee workday energy by offering wholesome and fulfilling lunches. Through its mobile application, Peach allows businesses to offer subsidized meal programs, where employees can receive daily menus from local restaurants via text and place orders for individuals or groups. This convenient service supports companies in fostering a positive workplace culture by providing a reliable lunch benefit for their teams. In recognition of its innovative approach, Peach was named one of Geekwire's Top 200 Pacific Northwest Start-Ups in 2015.

Fisherman is a Boston-based company that offers a platform for independent restaurants to automatically create and manage their websites. Founded in 2018, the company utilizes available data to design custom websites tailored to the needs of these businesses. Its software is specifically developed for small and medium-sized enterprises, allowing users to generate modern, affordable websites equipped with robust search engine optimization and customer engagement capabilities. This enables restaurant owners to maintain a high-quality online presence without the need for hiring external agencies.

Paerpay is a Boston-based company founded in 2017 that provides a contactless payment solution for merchants across the United States. The company offers an application that allows users to scan a code at their table to create a new bill or connect to an existing one, facilitating payments, splitting costs, tipping, and managing bills seamlessly. This service eliminates the need for merchants to change their point-of-sale systems or payment processors, and it does not require customers to download any additional applications. Paerpay aims to enhance the dining experience by providing a simple and efficient way for patrons to handle their transactions.

Collettey's Cookies is a maker of food and beverages. Their products include gluten cookies, oatmeal raisin cookies, and peanut butter cookies. They provides wedding, trade show, and conference services.

Komeeda is a culinary platform designed to connect food enthusiasts with local restaurants and chefs through diverse offerings such as pop-up feasts, tastings, and events. By providing a user-friendly digital marketplace, Komeeda allows consumers to discover and support local dining options while enabling restaurants to enhance their online presence and consumer engagement. The platform also facilitates delivery, catering, cooking classes, and offers a range of culinary content, including recipes and cooking methods. Komeeda emphasizes a community-centric business model, ensuring that restaurants retain a significant share of their online revenue and have control over their consumer data. This approach not only promotes ethical dining choices but also fosters a vibrant culinary community.

QueMesa is a platform for Restaurants Owners to manage and regulate their capacity using promotions. Restaurants can offer better promotions to attract customers during their empty times. This in turn attracts more customers. Their Admin Portal provides real-time statistics and reservation details and allows Owners to update their public Restaurant Profile at any time. There's only one requirement to be on the QueMesa platform: Each restaurant has to offer at LEAST 1 table with a 50% discount per day at any time.

infinight was conceived to make the whole nightlife experience better for everybody. For the party-goers, we built a mobile and web platform to find the best bars, clubs and events, while being able to buy tickets, book tables in one click and enjoy happy hour deals. For venue owners, we created the first nightlife specific ticketing and marketing platform that enables them to increase their conversions and save precious time. In other words, infinight is nightlife, but made better.

Zero Hour is helps restaurant owners find workforce in less than 5 seconds.

Spyce is a restaurant based in Somerville, MA, founded in 2015, that aims to transform the dining experience through automation and innovative cuisine. The company has developed a fully robotic kitchen that integrates a refrigerator, dishwasher, stove-top, and a robotic chef to prepare meals from fresh ingredients without human intervention. This technology allows Spyce to offer a menu of globally-inspired seasonal salads and warm bowls, providing consumers with affordable and healthy fast food options without sacrificing quality. By combining culinary creativity with advanced automation, Spyce is reimagining the fast-food industry and setting new standards for efficiency and taste.

Spyce is a restaurant based in Somerville, MA, founded in 2015, that aims to transform the dining experience through automation and innovative cuisine. The company has developed a fully robotic kitchen that integrates a refrigerator, dishwasher, stove-top, and a robotic chef to prepare meals from fresh ingredients without human intervention. This technology allows Spyce to offer a menu of globally-inspired seasonal salads and warm bowls, providing consumers with affordable and healthy fast food options without sacrificing quality. By combining culinary creativity with advanced automation, Spyce is reimagining the fast-food industry and setting new standards for efficiency and taste.

Easy Pairings empowers restaurants to find staff — faster and cheaper. They make searching and hiring for front-of-house positions (servers, bartenders and hosts) a snap. From fine dining restaurateurs to fast-casual operators, employers get instant, free access to active job seekers — bringing efficiency to the hiring process and drastically reducing time-to-hire. Job seekers receive customized employment opportunities that match their experience, which they can apply to with a single click.

Q App is a revolutionary mobile app that allows you to beat the queues in busy hospitality and entertainment venues. Place your order and pay through your smartphone. You’ll be notified when your order is ready to collect. You'll never need to queue again.

GLP - Great Little Place is your little black book of great little places. Great Little Place offers GLP, an application that enables its users to find and share locations, including bars, restaurants, theatres, museums, galleries, and more. Great Little Place was founded in February 2010 by Rossa Shanks and Rich Brown. It is based in London, England.

Clothbound is a job search, recruiting, and workforce development platform for the most important industry in America - the restaurant industry. The restaurant industry? Yes! Here’s why... Digitization, globalization, and urbanization all contribute to the industry becoming one the largest and most durable employment engines in the country. We can’t eat megabytes of data or go out to eat online, and it’s hard to offshore, outsource or automate restaurant work. Amazon’s rise means traditional ground floor retail is being replaced by restaurants with increased frequency. Data to back this up shows 10% of employable people in the US work in the industry. Restaurants now account for 50% of every food dollar spent. 2015 will be the first year restaurant spending exceeds grocery spending. We’ve built a 2-sided, mobile marketplace where restaurants can directly access, search, and recruit candidates. Candidates can create professional profiles, view jobs, assess quality of employers, interact with hirers, and apply for positions or be recruited by our restaurants through the platform. Successful restaurant employment and hiring prioritizes personality and soft skill before experience and technical ability. We inverted the traditional resume to create candidate profiles focusing on personality, interest, and preferred work environment followed by work experience and education. Restaurants in turn answer what is compelling about working for them before adding key information about position, location, etc. We’ve then built an intuitive system to power automated matching of candidates and employers. Clothbound users can tell the app exactly what they are looking for in their next job/employee, instantly view the results, take their desired action, and save the search to receive automatic updates as new matches become available. For restaurants, Clothbound reduces the time and cost to hire, and leads to better job fit and reduced turnover. For candidates, Clothbound provides a simple, yet powerful tool for finding the right restaurant job and getting hired.

SixPlus is trusted by corporate event & administrative professionals to find and book private dining spaces online. From board dinners to team lunches and company holiday parties, our clients use SixPlus to select the best venues and manage their bookings, contracts and communication in one place. Browse venues, build your own proposals and book venues online in New York, Washington DC, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco & Chicago.

Easily makes it easier for busy professionals to live healthier lives with greater work-life balance. They deliver ready-to-cook meal kits with all the ingredients and recipes for a home-cooked meal. They partner with employers to deliver these meal kits directly to their employees at the office, so they can grab them on their way home and cook a tasty dinner without ever having to go to the grocery store. Employers can encourage health and work-life balance by providing this employee perk for free.

GG's Original is a manufacturer of Gluten-Free gourmet potato pancakes and bakery items for retail and food service organizations.

TableZest introduces dynamic pricing to the restaurant industry (i.e. minimum spend required on highly sought-after tables). In doing so, they offer Their paying members last-minute premium reservations on peak nights. On off-peak nights, they help fill spare capacity by providing dining perks to members (i.e. incentives to visit the restaurant). They handpick each restaurant creating a curated marketplace that celebrates restaurant success. they are a win-win for both restaurants goers and owners alike.

Sabi is the first ever fast-casual concept to provide fully customizable, restaurant quality.

Kigo Kitchen is a food and beverage company based in Seattle, Washington, specializing in wok-fired rice and noodle bowls offered at an affordable price point under $10. The menu features a simple blend of East-meets-West flavors, highlighted by bold, hand-made sauces, catering to both lunch and dinner options. Kigo Kitchen is committed to providing nutritious meals that accommodate dietary restrictions, and it offers online ordering and delivery services to enhance accessibility. Currently, the company operates one licensed location at the Curry Center at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.