Top Restaurants Startups in 2027

Voxie is a platform to connect with customers via text message, build real relationships, and turn those relationships into action. We help rapidly growing brands acquire, retain and delight their customers through SMS by leveraging our platform to deliver 98% open rates, 50% response rates and 30% CTRs helping brands build meaningful one-to-one relationships with their customers.

"VOICEplug Order" enables frictionless voice-based food ordering for restaurants. The product seamlessly integrates with restaurant websites, apps, and systems (phone system, drive-through, kiosks, etc.) so that they can start voice interactions and transactions with customers. Customers can search items with multiple filters, sort and compare options, place orders for multiple items simultaneously with customized options, make payments, track orders, provide feedback, and more.

Born in DC and raised the Mediterranean way, CAVA is a vibrant culinary brand focused on real food with thoughtful ingredients, gutsy flavors, and a whole lot of variety. With a growing fast-casual restaurant presence and a correlated line of chef-crafted dips + spreads, we’re empowering all eaters to create the meal they’ve been craving and dig right in.

unPLUG is a Chicago-based tech company developing an omnichannel, data- driven, digital software platform that automates, personalizes, and optimizes the restaurant dining experience. Its system uses breakthrough technology including artificial intelligence, sophisticated data systems to enhance the dining experience. unPLUG has a flexible work culture and although we work hard, we do not get too wrapped up with protocol or bureaucracy. unPLUG appreciates diversity of all stripes and is an equal opportunity employer.

We give you money for equipment, furniture, or marketing. You pay us in gift cards to your restaurant.

Our company has developed a robot named Penny enabled by artificial intelligence and able to autonomously shuttle food from a kitchen out to tables and bring dishes back for cleaning.

Tabbed is building a frictionless payments layer for hospitality that removes the most broken part of dining: closing the check. Tabbed connects diners and restaurants through a location-aware platform that automatically discovers checks, syncs directly with point-of-sale systems, and enables one-tap or fully automatic payment. No QR codes, no waiting for staff, and no disruption to existing restaurant workflows. For diners, Tabbed makes paying effortless. Open the app, dine as usual, and leave when ready—Tabbed handles the rest. For restaurants, Tabbed integrates directly into existing POS systems, ensuring checks are securely linked to guests and payments are captured reliably, even in fast-paced or high-volume environments. Under the hood, Tabbed solves complex coordination across location, payments, and POS systems to deliver a consistent, reliable experience across venues. The result is faster table turns, improved guest satisfaction, and a modern dining experience that feels seamless from start to finish. Tabbed’s goal is to become the default way people pay in hospitality—ambient, invisible, and trusted—while giving restaurants better insight into their guests and operations without changing how they work.

Tab Commerce is the AI-powered spend management platform built exclusively for multi-unit restaurants. We combine cards, credit, and treasury accounts with an AI CFO that gives operators real-time financial intelligence — replacing manual spreadsheets with automated insights across hundreds of locations. Modern stack (TypeScript, NestJS, Next.js, PostgreSQL, AWS), fast growth, small senior team. We're hiring.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) computer vision platform that enables machines to see, understand, and derive insights from the visual world to enhance customer experience, Increase revenue, and optimize operations.