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.
One dish per restaurant, reserved ahead and collected on foot. MealPal turns the office lunch rush into a bargain built on fewer choices and better timing.
It took 296 million orders to produce £2.9 million in profit in 2024. Now owned by DoorDash, Deliveroo is betting that your groceries, gifts and forgotten essentials belong in the same app as dinner.
ezCater is the leading U.S. workplace food platform, connecting companies that need to feed teams, meetings and events with a network of more than 100,000 local restaurants and caterers. Founded in Boston in 2007, it turned the messy, phone-and-fax world of office catering into software - online ordering, delivery logistics, billing and analytics - serving everything from a 5-person lunch to a 2,000-person conference. Now a $1.6B company, it has expanded from a transactional marketplace into an enterprise food management platform.