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Karla Borland and the business that stayed open after hours
After 17 years in banking, Karla Borland founded Morsl to bring self-service food markets into workplaces. The office was her starting point; the warehouse changed the direction of her business.
The Office Lunch Has a Logistics Problem
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.
Nathan Rosenstock Put the Office Snack Shelf on a Spreadsheet
A borrowed Cadillac, a free kegerator and a near-death pandemic pivot became a national workplace food operation. Nathan Rosenstock's useful trick was learning that the snack is only the visible part of the system.
Morsl
Morsl is a Sydney-based food-tech company that installs automated, self-service micro markets - unattended 24/7 cafes - inside Australian workplaces. Founded in 2018 by former Credit Suisse director Karla Borland, Morsl gives employees affordable access to fresh meals, salads, better-for-you snacks and drinks via scan-and-pay kiosks, positioning itself as a healthier, tech-enabled alternative to traditional vending machines and canteens.
ezCater
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.
Nihad Rahman
Nihad Rahman is the CEO of ezCater, the Boston-founded online marketplace that turns office lunch into logistics across 100,000+ restaurants. He joined in 2022 as CFO after two decades in finance at JPMorgan Chase and General Electric, stepped in as interim chief in January 2025, and was handed the permanent job that May - succeeding 16-year co-founder Stefania Mallett. He runs a roughly 850-person company from Bronxville, New York, commuting to the downtown Boston headquarters rather than the other way around.