Top Restaurants Startups in 2026

FIXE is the restaurant industry's most advanced AI-powered financial platform. We automate bookkeeping, streamline financial operations, and empower restaurant operators with clear, timely, actionable financial decisions. Our multi-agent AI system reconciles transactions, classifies spend, analyzes vendor pricing, detects anomalies, and produces narrative-rich P&L explanations. Automation frees our Account Managers (AMs) and bookkeepers to spend more time supporting customers and less time on repetitive work. At FIXE, our primary focus is the restaurant operator — owners, general managers, operators, and advisors. Every product decision starts with one question: How do we help restaurant operators make better financial decisions today? We believe in AI + Humans working together: • AI automates routine, high-volume tasks • Humans (AMs) provide nuanced, relationship-driven financial support • Conversational AI delivers expert guidance with seamless escalation to an AM when needed This is the future of restaurant finance — and you will shape it.

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.

sunday was proudly built by restaurateurs for restaurateurs. In 2020, tested across Big Mamma’s restaurants in London, Paris and Madrid, sunday proved its worth and exceeded industry expectations. We have since signed some of the biggest names in the industry and are revolutionising restaurant payments as we know it. Out with the old, in with the new – sunday is here to stay.

Our products manages online delivery channels and integrates them into the POS of restaurants, dark kitchens etc.

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.

Founded in 1999, Wings Over set out to serve the best chicken wings! Since then, Wings Over has grown to over 40 locations across 13 states. In 2017, Wings Over was acquired by four friends who set out to revitalize and re-imagine what Wings Over could be. Dan, Kevin, Mike, and Raunak, worked with their Wings Over Ithaca team to develop the future of Wings Over, “Wings Over 2.0”. Wings Over has always served great food, but in addition, Wings Over now also believes in fostering an environment for their amazing crew to succeed, creating a focused menu with higher quality offerings, and developing new spaces and resources to allow for one-of-a-kind experiences.

1. FOOD UNITES US ALL. Good food brings all of us together, and helps us find a common point of view. We believe that one of the greatest sources of joy is what happens around a dinner table. 2. OUR PASSION HAS BECOME OUR JOB. We've dedicated our daily lives to promoting a real understanding of high-quality food and drink. How lucky are we that we get to do what we love? 3. THE SECRET TO QUALITY OF LIFE? QUALITY PRODUCTS. By creating and offering the best products, we improve our own lives, and bring added value to yours. Enter a world dedicated to quality: that means quality food, quality drink and ultimately quality time. 4. OUR TARGET AUDIENCE IS EVERYONE. Whether you're here to buy a loaf of bread, prepare for a lavish dinner or sit down to enjoy a meal, we want this to be your place. We want you to be comfortable, happy, and enriched by every visit. 5. EAT. SHOP. LEARN. This is a store with stories. Here, you won't just discover what you love, you'll also learn about what you love. 6. WE'RE IN THIS TOGETHER. What you choose every day determines what we'll stock on our shelves over time. When you demand quality products, you support the local farmers, fishermen, butchers, bakers, and cheesemakers who produce them. You create a better environment—for eating and beyond. 7. OUR THREE PROMISES TO YOU 1. Choice: We offer a diverse selection of quality food and drink 2. Accessibility: We are dedicated to offering the best products at the lowest possible price points. 3. Knowledge: We feel that it's not just important that we know everything about what we sell and serve, but that you also learn about the products we are so passionate about. We share with you the stories of the people and places behind all that we offer. The more you know the more you enjoy. 8. YOUR TRUST IS EARNED EVERY DAY In all ways, we promise to be scrupulously honest. We'll never encourage you to buy more than you need or more expensive than you can afford. 9. THE END GOAL. Our goal is to have you as our customer for a lifetime. The easiest means to that end is offering the best food and drink as well as the best environment in which to discover and expand your tastes.

We are the largest privately owned movie and game rentailer in the United States. We operate more than 775 Family Video stores in 19 states & Canada, and we are opening more all the time. Our unique property-ownership model makes us a different sort of retailer because we buy and develop most of our buildings and land. We have developed more than 600 retail strip centers and count Fortune 500 companies as well as Mom and Pop retailers amongst our tenants.Our entrepreneurial spirit is what makes Family Video grow. Recent efforts include opening Marco's Pizza stores adjacent to our brick and mortar stores to offer one-stop shopping for dinner and entertainment, sister companies such as ITV-3, a cable television service that uses fiber-to-the-home technology, and StayFit-24, state-of-the-art fitness centers that offer workouts in a clean and safe environment.