Top Restaurants Startups in 2024

Zerocater builds revolutionary corporate catering and cafeteria solutions employees love while saving companies millions of dollars as they transition to the hybrid workplace. With its Cloud Cafe, Hybrid Cafe, Managed Cafe, and Event Cafe products; Zerocater has built corporate cafeteria and office catering programs for companies of all sizes from growing startups to the Fortune 500. Thousands of companies like TikTok, Datadog, Airtable, and McKinsey choose Zerocater for the customized, consistent, and diverse meal experiences its products offer, while also reducing costs by giving companies the flexibility to only pay for the employees who come into the office. Zerocater currently offers its corporate cafeteria and office catering products in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, Austin, Denver, Seattle, and Washington D.C. with additional markets in the U.S. and Canada coming online every month. Since completing YCombinator in Winter 2011, Zerocater has raised $38.5M from leading investors including Cleveland Avenue, Remus Capital, Romulus Capital, Struck Capital, SV Angel, Keith Rabois, Yuri Milner, Paul Buchheit, and Justin Kan. For more information visit zerocater.com and follow @Zerocater on Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin, and Twitter. Check out our company profile on Workatastartup: workatastartup.com/directory/171

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Olo powers digital ordering and delivery programs that connect restaurant brands to the on-demand world, placing orders directly into the restaurant through all order origination points – from a brand’s own website or app, third party marketplaces, social media platforms, smart speakers, and home assistants. Olo serves as the on-demand ordering and delivery platform across 70,000 locations for over 300 brands, such as Applebee’s (DIN), Checkers & Rally’s, Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), Chili’s (EAT), Dairy Queen, Denny’s (DENN), Five Guys Burgers & Fries, Jamba Juice (JMBA), Noodles & Company (NDLS), Portillo’s Hot Dogs, Shake Shack (SHAK), sweetgreen, Wingstop (WING), and more. Learn more at olo.com.

Slice is the easiest way to order authentic local pizza. We serve the $40 billion U.S. pizzeria market in two ways: by providing a pizza-centric mobile and web ordering experience for consumers, and by empowering local restaurants with technology that grows their business and helps them compete with Big Pizza. Can you imagine what a local pizza shop could achieve with the resources of Domino’s?

Thanx is a leading provider of digital guest engagement for offline businesses. Brick-and-mortar retailers, restaurants and malls are facing an unprecedented crisis in the aftermath of COVID-19; Thanx helps these businesses embrace digital purchasing, capture greater customer data, and take action on that information to personalize every interaction with their guests. Our proprietary integrations with credit card networks (e.g. Visa) provide the volume and accuracy of purchase data which sits at the core of every product we build.

ChowNow stands out among the typical platform in the world of online food ordering. We help local restaurants thrive by offering the sharpest digital tools and services to grow in the modern world. Everything we design puts local restaurants and their diners first. Our products include: websites, custom-made apps, access to the most popular online ordering hubs, marketing tools, and valuable customer data. Most importantly, our business revolves around principles of fairness and sustainability—when we say commission-free, we mean it. Diversity, teamwork, and mutual respect are among our core company values. We provide support and create opportunities for everyone on the ChowNow team. To this date, we’ve build over 20,000 apps for our restaurant partners—a first for our line of business.

Halen is a unified drivers' network using a franchise model. We're fixing the broken rideshare and on-demand delivery ecosystem by paying drivers more. By combining established business models into a single app, we can reach a large audience, keep them coming back, increase their loyalty, and generate revenue in multiple ways.

TouchBistro is an iPad point of sale built for restaurant people, by restaurant people – with every feature designed to meet the unique needs and fast pace of the foodservice industry. Used in more than 100 countries, TouchBistro is the POS that has powered over 12,000 restaurants worldwide. Designed to help restaurateurs run a better and more successful business, TouchBistro enables restaurants to make more money, deliver a great guest experience, and take the guesswork out of making business decisions. We’re venture backed by some of the best tech VCs in the industry and have great relationships with some of the best partners in the mobile solutions, food, and payment industries. Our headquarters are located in the King West tech corridor.

Sharebite is a mission-driven food ordering platform, built exclusively for companies. Our clients include category-leading law firms (Vault 100), top-tier investment banks, asset managers (private equity, hedge funds, real estate), architecture firms, accounting firms, tech companies and beyond. Core to our mission is the belief that each and every one of our stakeholders must benefit from the existence of Sharebite. Every order placed on our platform results in a donation made to alleviate childhood hunger in local communities, via our partnership with City Harvest. Visit sharebite.com to learn more about how your company can feed its employees, while also making a difference for small businesses and society.

Restaurants are the heart of our communities - where we go to celebrate life’s memorable moments with those we love, and find comfort and familiarity in the world. But while the digital and data revolutions have transformed other parts of commerce and hospitality, restaurants haven’t had the same opportunity. The result has been an industry that’s - on average - had their profit margins shrink by 5x over the past 20 years. Bikky was founded on the belief that restaurants deserve the same access to data as the largest, most sophisticated businesses in the world. We believe that data can fundamentally transform the economic model of the entire restaurant industry - producing better businesses, more jobs, and stronger communities. Bikky is based in New York City and has raised over $15 million in funding to date, most recently with a Series A in Q4 2023. Our founding team has a long history of working together, with intensive personal and professional experience steeped in the restaurant industry and New York City startups. We’re proud to serve thousands of restaurant locations across the U.S., including major brands like Dave’s Hot Chicken, MOD Pizza, Long John Silver’s, and Eggs Up Grill.