Waiter.com put restaurant orders on the web in 1995. Its enduring idea is wonderfully practical: give everyone a choice, then make the office lunch run itself.
WeBox began with a homesick dinner and became a Bay Area system for feeding offices. The clever part is less the menu than the machinery behind it: one order, many appetites, and fewer spreadsheets.
Zerocater is a San Francisco food-tech company that helps businesses build better workplaces through food. It runs three core products - corporate catering, fully managed corporate cafeterias, and event catering - in a dozen U.S. cities, blending local restaurant and caterer partnerships with onsite hospitality teams and an in-house AI platform (FoodIQ) that personalizes menus and forecasts demand. Founded in 2009 out of a Y Combinator class, it serves companies like Robinhood, Datadog, Airtable, and McKinsey and is going after a roughly $182B corporate catering and cafeteria market.