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me&u puts hospitality back at the table
Two QR-code rivals met for dinner and became one company. Now me&u is betting that a restaurant should remember its guests as well as it remembers their orders.
Cover made the restaurant check disappear. Then it disappeared, too.
Cover turned the awkward last act of dinner into an automatic payment. Its rise from New York tables to a Velocity acquisition shows both the appeal and the limits of an app designed to stay in your pocket.
Ben Leventhal Keeps Rewriting the Restaurant Check
First he made restaurants readable. Then he made them bookable. With Blackbird, Ben Leventhal is betting that the next great dining technology will make regulars recognizable - and give restaurants more control of the economics.
MenuSifu
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.
Christine de Wendel
Christine de Wendel is the co-founder and U.S. CEO of sunday, the QR-code checkout company that shrinks the worst part of dinner - waiting for the bill - from roughly fifteen minutes to about ten seconds. She spent two decades scaling European e-commerce unicorns Zalando and ManoMano out of Paris before founding sunday at age 40 with Big Mamma restaurateurs Victor Lugger and Tigrane Seydoux, then moved home to Atlanta to plant the company's U.S. flag. A Georgetown School of Foreign Service graduate who once wanted to run the United Nations, she now runs a hospitality-payments business that has processed billions in restaurant transactions.