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Eaternity develops a software management platform for the restaurant industry that provides real-time calculations for allergen and nutrition declarations and estimates the carbon footprint of meals and restaurant operations. The platform also tracks supply-chain data and delivers insights to support smart decision-making toward a more sustainable food system. Through the Eaternity Score, the environmental impact of food products is made transparent to consumers and decision-makers. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Zurich, Switzerland.

Mesa is a technology company that offers a dining app designed to help restaurants increase customer traffic during off-peak hours. By implementing dynamic, time-based discounts, Mesa enables restaurants to fill vacant tables while providing users with opportunities to enjoy meals at reduced prices. The app not only focuses on enhancing the revenue potential for restaurants but also aims to create a more affordable dining experience for consumers. Through its innovative approach, Mesa seeks to optimize restaurant operations and improve customer engagement.

The Dinner Daily, Inc. is a meal-planning company based in Westford, Massachusetts, founded in 2016. It specializes in creating customized weekly dinner menus and shopping lists tailored to the dietary needs and culinary preferences of families. The platform simplifies meal preparation by offering easy-to-follow dinner plans linked to local grocery store specials, allowing customers to prepare affordable and delicious meals at home. By focusing on individual preferences and budget considerations, The Dinner Daily aims to enhance the dining experience for families while making meal planning more efficient and enjoyable.

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.

GotSpot is an online marketplace specializing in short-term rentals of commercial spaces. It connects local businesses with underutilized properties, allowing entrepreneurs to rent various types of spaces, such as kitchens, galleries, studios, warehouses, workshops, bars, and restaurants, for brief periods. This model enables entrepreneurs to seize opportunities without the burden of long-term leases while generating new revenue streams for local businesses. By facilitating these transactions, GotSpot aims to enhance the local economy and foster community resilience.

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.

Futz connects people with delicious dishes that otherwise would not have been sold, creating an extra income for the establishment and an eco friendly environment

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

Deliverart streamlines delivery and takeaway management for restaurants, dark kitchens, and chains. Its platform centralizes orders from major food delivery platforms, automating workflows and optimizing routes to enhance operational efficiency.

Nutrifix Ltd is a London-based company that specializes in a nutrition application designed to help users find healthy meals in their vicinity. Founded in 2016, the app offers personalized scores for various dishes and snacks while allowing users to sort meals by nutritional benefits and filter options based on dietary needs. Additionally, Nutrifix partners with local restaurants and catering services to provide users with personalized weekly meal plans, which can be delivered to workplaces or ordered for pickup. The platform serves both businesses and consumers, allowing companies to enhance employee benefits with healthier food options, ultimately promoting a more informed and productive workforce. Through anonymized data, Nutrifix also aids organizations in developing effective wellness strategies.

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 Technologies, Inc. is a company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that operates an application designed to connect users with unsold food from local restaurants and cafes. Founded in 2016, the company aims to reduce food waste while making quality meals more affordable for consumers. Through its platform, restaurants can sell their leftover meals at discounted prices at the end of the business day, allowing them to minimize waste and provide a sustainable food option. Food For All originated from a collaboration with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and received backing from a significant number of supporters through a successful Kickstarter campaign. The company has expanded its reach beyond the United States, with additional locations worldwide.

Peach is a company that partners with local restaurants to curate and deliver subsidized lunches for employees, helping organizations offer convenient meal benefits. Through a mobile app and online portal, Peach displays daily menus from local partners and enables individual or group orders for company-wide lunch programs. The service is designed to boost workday energy and productivity by providing wholesome meals. Peach serves companies across major metro areas including Seattle, Boston, and Phoenix, focusing on accessible, curated lunch options for teams. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Seattle.

Fisherman is a technology company based in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 2018. It offers a platform that automatically creates and manages websites specifically for independent restaurants. The software gathers available data about the business to design customized websites that are modern, affordable, and equipped with effective search engine optimization and customer engagement features. This allows small and medium-sized business owners to establish and maintain high-quality online presences without the need for third-party agencies, streamlining the digital marketing process for the restaurant industry.

Founded in 2017, Paerpay enables merchants nationwide to accept contactless payments without altering existing point-of-sale systems or requiring customers to download an app.

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 support local restaurants by bringing their services online. It offers a range of functionalities, including delivery, catering, cooking classes, and point-of-sale solutions, positioning itself as a digital marketplace for consumers who prioritize ethical dining experiences. Komeeda's community-centric model ensures that restaurants retain a significant share of their online revenue, while also providing them with ownership of consumer data. The platform connects food enthusiasts with creative dining experiences, such as pop-up feasts and restaurant tastings, and allows users to engage directly with chefs, access unique recipes, and learn about culinary events. Through its empathetic technology and diverse service offerings, Komeeda aims to foster a thriving ecosystem for both consumers and local food businesses.

Socialease Ltd is a company that specializes in developing an intelligent assistant platform tailored for the hospitality industry, including hotels and restaurants. Founded in 2015 and based in Lausanne, Switzerland, Socialease offers a software as a service (SaaS) solution that simplifies the management of digital communication across various social media channels. The platform utilizes artificial intelligence to provide personalized communication suggestions, enabling businesses to enhance their online presence and manage their e-reputation effectively. By centralizing all digital interactions, Socialease empowers hospitality businesses to create and schedule content using texts, images, and videos, making it easier to engage with their target audiences and streamline their marketing efforts.

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.

Bitemojo is an e-commerce application that offers self-guided culinary tours, allowing couples and small groups to explore destinations through local cuisine. The platform features a curated selection of local dishes and restaurants, providing users with cultural insights and locations to enhance their gastronomic experience. In addition to sampling various foods, participants can engage with local culinary experts, learning about their backgrounds and the significance of the dishes. Bitemojo also incorporates a rewards system, where users can earn biteCredits during their tours, which can be redeemed for complimentary bites, further enriching their culinary adventures.

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

PantryAce is a developer of a business platform designed to enhance productivity in commercial kitchens. The company specializes in smart food labeling, allowing chefs to label ingredients quickly and accurately. Each label includes essential information such as the opening date, default expiry date, and allergen details, ensuring compliance with food safety regulations and reducing the risk of human error. Additionally, PantryAce offers digital stocktaking capabilities, enabling restaurant owners and chefs to access cloud-based food data analysis conveniently. This comprehensive approach streamlines kitchen operations and promotes food safety, making it an invaluable tool for the food service industry.

Spyce is a restaurant founded in 2015 and headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts, that aims to revolutionize the dining experience with its innovative automated cooking platform. The establishment offers a diverse menu of globally-inspired seasonal salads and warm bowls, emphasizing freshness and quality. Spyce utilizes a fully robotic kitchen that integrates a refrigerator, dishwasher, stove-top, and a robotic chef, allowing it to prepare meals from fresh ingredients without human intervention. This technology enables the restaurant to provide consumers with healthy and affordable fast food while maintaining high standards of taste and quality.

Spyce is a restaurant founded in 2015 and headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts, that aims to revolutionize the dining experience with its innovative automated cooking platform. The establishment offers a diverse menu of globally-inspired seasonal salads and warm bowls, emphasizing freshness and quality. Spyce utilizes a fully robotic kitchen that integrates a refrigerator, dishwasher, stove-top, and a robotic chef, allowing it to prepare meals from fresh ingredients without human intervention. This technology enables the restaurant to provide consumers with healthy and affordable fast food while maintaining high standards of taste and quality.

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.

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.

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.

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.

World Around Me develops a global discovery app that assists users in finding nearby places of interest such as restaurants, shops, accommodations, transportation options, and essential services like ATMs. Utilizing augmented reality through phone cameras, the app enables users to explore their surroundings efficiently worldwide.

SixPlus is an online platform that enables individuals and corporate event professionals to discover and book private and semi-private venues for group events. The service provides a curated network of venue partners and offers concierge-assisted planning to simplify reservations for board dinners, client dinners, team lunches, and company holiday parties. It supports end-to-end workflow by enabling venue selection, proposal building, bookings, contracts, and communications in a single place. Targeted users include event planners, corporate groups, and marketing directors who organize private dining and other group events, with availability across major U.S. cities such as New York, Washington, DC, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and 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.

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.

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

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

Kigo Asian Kitchen is a food and beverage company based in Seattle, Washington, specializing in nutritious, fast-casual dining. The restaurant chain focuses on offering wok-fired rice and noodle bowls, all priced under $10, featuring a simple yet flavorful menu that combines East and West culinary influences. Kigo Asian Kitchen emphasizes the use of bold, hand-made sauces and caters to various dietary restrictions. In addition to in-house dining, the company provides online ordering and delivery services, allowing customers to enjoy delicious meals conveniently. Currently, Kigo operates one licensed location at the Curry Center at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.