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Bojangles launches Bikky's CDP across all 800 locations Dave's Hot Chicken lifts guest identification from 10% to over 90% Robeks rolls out Bikky across 100+ locations $8M Series A closed December 2023 City BBQ gets granular to fuel broad growth Bojangles launches Bikky's CDP across all 800 locations Dave's Hot Chicken lifts guest identification from 10% to over 90% Robeks rolls out Bikky across 100+ locations $8M Series A closed December 2023 City BBQ gets granular to fuel broad growth
Company Profile · Restaurant Technology · New York

Bikky

The customer data platform restaurants were missing.

Bikky unifies point-of-sale, online ordering, payments, and loyalty data into a single guest view - so multi-unit restaurant brands can measure how every marketing, menu, and operational decision actually moves their guests.

2017
Founded
~44
Employees
$13M+
Raised
NYC
Headquarters
Bikky logo
BIKKY, INC. - 221 Canal Street, New York. The restaurant CDP that turns POS, ordering, payments, and loyalty into one guest.
The Story

A data platform that speaks restaurant

Most restaurants can name their best-selling dish long before they can name their best guest. That gap - between what sold and who bought it - is the problem Bikky was built to close. Founded in New York in 2017, Bikky is a customer data platform built exclusively for large, multi-unit restaurant brands. It plugs into a brand's point-of-sale system, online ordering provider, payment processor, and loyalty program, then stitches those separate streams into one de-duplicated profile for each guest.

The idea did not start in a boardroom. Co-founder and CEO Abhinav Kapur has traced the company's origin to Amma, a New York City restaurant owned by his mother-in-law, where he watched a business run on intuition and hospitality while the kind of customer analytics that large technology companies take for granted simply did not exist. Bikky's stated mission is direct: provide restaurants with the same analytical insights as top global businesses.

What makes the platform distinct is its refusal to be general-purpose. A conventional customer data platform assumes a clean email address and a login. Restaurants do not work that way - they have walk-ins, cash, third-party delivery orders, and the same guest appearing across four different channels under three different names. Bikky's core job is to make those systems agree on who the guest is, then measure how each decision - a price change, a limited-time offer, a new loyalty perk - changes that guest's behavior over time.

The result is a single view of the guest lifecycle: acquisition, engagement, frequency, recency, and churn. Operators can see which menu pairings drive incremental spend, which promotions bring genuinely new customers versus discounting existing regulars, and when a loyal guest quietly stops showing up. It is the difference between guessing and knowing.

That distinction has attracted brands of very different sizes, from national chains to regional favorites, all reaching the same conclusion: gut instinct got them started, but guest data is what scales them.

By The Numbers
60+
Restaurant Brands
served on the platform
Thousands
Locations
reported ~5,000-7,000
100s of M
Guest Profiles
tracked and de-duplicated
$30B+
Transactions
historical, analyzed

Figures are company-reported and approximate; scale statements vary across sources.

"The restaurant customer data platform that measures how every marketing, menu, and operational decision impacts your guests."
- Bikky, company tagline
Products & Services

What you can actually do with it

Bikky is sold as a modular platform. Each piece answers a specific operator question - who is this guest, are they coming back, and what is worth doing about it.

Identity

Guest Profiles

A unified, de-duplicated view of each guest across POS, online ordering, payments, and loyalty channels.

Retention

Guest Lifecycle

Tracks acquisition, engagement, frequency, recency, and churn across the whole customer journey.

Menu

Menu Analysis

Reveals how items, pairings, and pricing changes affect guest spend and behavior.

Engagement

Marketing Automation

Lifecycle-driven, multi-channel campaigns tied to real behavior rather than blanket blasts.

Segments

Demographics

Identifies high-value guests and segments by demographic and behavioral attributes.

AI

Data Assistant

An AI-driven insights layer that surfaces answers and trends from a brand's guest data.

Proof

Guest identification, before and after

Dave's Hot Chicken reported lifting the share of guests it could recognize from roughly 10% to over 90% across nearly 150 locations after adopting Bikky - a roughly 9x improvement.

Before Bikky
~10%
After Bikky
90%+

Source: Dave's Hot Chicken case study, company/PR reporting.

Customers & Market

Who uses Bikky - and where it fits

Bikky's customers are large and growing multi-unit restaurant brands. Bojangles chose not to run a small pilot and instead launched Bikky's platform across all roughly 800 of its locations in 2024, aiming to learn how menu pairings drive incremental spend ahead of a planned expansion. Robeks deployed the CDP across its 100-plus locations, and City BBQ has described using Bikky to get granular with guest data to fuel broader growth.

Other named brands include Dave's Hot Chicken, MOD Pizza, Honeygrow, Long John Silver's, and regional operators such as The Salad House, which publicly credited Bikky with turning intuition into data-backed growth. The common thread is scale of complexity: chains large enough that no single person can hold the customer picture in their head.

In the broader market, Bikky sits in restaurant technology alongside loyalty and marketing platforms like Thanx, Punchh, SevenRooms, and Bloom Intelligence, as well as general-purpose customer data platforms adapted for hospitality. Its differentiator is verticalization - building only for restaurants, and specifically for the identity-resolution problem created by walk-ins, delivery marketplaces, and fragmented channels.

That focus is also the business model. Bikky is B2B software-as-a-service, typically deployed across a chain's full footprint, with a data footprint that spans hundreds of millions of guest profiles and tens of billions of dollars in tracked transactions.

BojanglesDave's Hot ChickenMOD Pizza RobeksCity BBQHoneygrow Long John Silver'sThe Salad House
Leadership

The founders

CEO

Abhinav Kapur

Co-founder and CEO. Drew the original idea from a family-run NYC restaurant, Amma, and now leads the company's restaurant-first data vision.

CTO

John Lucas

Co-founder and CTO, responsible for the engineering behind Bikky's integrations and identity-resolution engine.

Revenue

Chris Thompson

Co-founder and Head of Revenue, leading the go-to-market effort with enterprise restaurant brands.

Funding

The money behind the mission

Bikky has raised across a seed and a Series A round, backed by early-stage investors focused on vertical software and commerce infrastructure.

RoundAmountDateLead / Investors
Seed$5.25M2021Equal Ventures, Gutter Capital, Version One Ventures
Series A~$8MDec 2023Equal Ventures, Gutter Capital, Remarkable Ventures

Total reported funding figures range from ~$13M to ~$18M across sources.

Timeline

How Bikky got here

FAQ

Questions people ask

What does Bikky do?

Bikky is a customer data platform for multi-unit restaurants that unifies POS, online ordering, payments, and loyalty data into a single guest view, then measures how marketing, menu, and operational decisions affect guest behavior.

Who uses Bikky?

Large and growing restaurant brands, including Bojangles, Dave's Hot Chicken, MOD Pizza, Robeks, City BBQ, and The Salad House, across thousands of locations.

Who founded Bikky and when?

Bikky was founded in 2017 by Abhinav Kapur (CEO) alongside co-founders John Lucas (CTO) and Chris Thompson (Head of Revenue), and is based in New York City.

How much funding has Bikky raised?

Bikky raised a $5.25M seed round and a roughly $8M Series A (closed December 2023), backed by investors including Equal Ventures and Gutter Capital.

How is Bikky different from a generic CDP?

Bikky is built exclusively for restaurants, so it handles walk-ins, third-party delivery, and multi-channel guests to de-duplicate identities the way a general-purpose CDP typically cannot.

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