The Chicago company began by bringing Asian food to diners. Its next business lives inside the restaurant, where a second round of sushi, a bubble tea modifier and a ringing phone are software problems with very human consequences.
The restaurant-tech company won enterprise chains by treating downtime, menu sprawl and disconnected orders as one systems problem. Now it is turning that plumbing into an AI and payments business.
Grubtech is a Dubai-based restaurant technology company that builds a unified operating system for food and beverage and quick-commerce businesses. Its middleware platform, gOnline, connects fragmented software touchpoints - POS systems, ERP, delivery aggregators like Talabat, Deliveroo, Careem and Uber Eats, kitchen displays, dispatch and analytics - into a single dashboard so restaurants, cloud kitchens, grocers and pharmacies can run online and in-store operations without juggling multiple screens. Founded in 2019, the company has raised $33.4M and operates across roughly 18 markets.
MenuSifu is a New York-based restaurant technology company that builds an integrated cloud POS ecosystem for restaurants, with deep roots serving Asian-American operators across the United States. Founded in 2014, its platform spans point-of-sale, online ordering, kitchen displays, self-ordering kiosks, loyalty and marketing, payment processing, and restaurant financing, now used by more than 15,000 restaurants. Backed by a $40M Series B in 2024, the company is expanding into AI-driven kitchen automation and fintech services for restaurant owners.
Innowi Inc. is a Santa Clara, California restaurant-technology company that builds an all-in-one point-of-sale and ordering platform. Its stack spans POS, self-service kiosks, tabletop QR ordering, online ordering and delivery, a kitchen display system, marketing and rewards, analytics, and employee management - designed to help independent and multi-location restaurants cut third-party commission fees, sync orders across channels, and run leaner operations.
Snackpass is a restaurant technology company that builds an all-in-one marketing and point-of-sale platform for quick-service restaurants. It pairs hardware - registers, self-serve kiosks, kitchen display systems and pickup screens - with software for online ordering, loyalty, SMS marketing, analytics and AI. Founded by Yale students in 2017 as a social food-ordering app, it grew into a full operating system for takeout, serving thousands of restaurant operators and tens of millions of guests.
Touchpoint Restaurant Solutions (touchpoint.io) is a Palo Alto-based restaurant technology company that bundles point of sale, kitchen display, drive-thru line-busting, online ordering, loyalty, and AI-driven marketing into one unified platform branded OmniFusion and OmniLoyalty. Founded by Stanford-trained entrepreneurs led by CEO Israel L'Heureux, the company targets enterprise quick-service and pizza chains that want to consolidate a sprawling tech stack, own their guest data, and run loyalty programs that actually get used - it claims chain-wide participation rates of 80-90% versus a single-digit industry norm.