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5-Out
AI that forecasts restaurant sales, labor, and inventory, then recommends staffing and purchasing to protect margin.
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7shifts
Employee scheduling, time-clocking, tip management, team communication and payroll for 55,000+ restaurants.
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Apicbase
Centralizes recipe management, real-time inventory, procurement, and menu-cost analysis for multi-site food businesses.
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Arryved
POS and operations platform built for breweries, taprooms, and bars, with open-tab, offline, and ounce-level workflows.
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Avero
Hospitality BI that turns POS data into sales, labour, menu and loss-prevention insights for restaurants, hotels and casinos.
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BentoBox
Design-forward restaurant websites with direct online ordering, catering, gift cards, and events, now part of Clover.
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BevSpot
Web-based food and beverage inventory, ordering, and recipe costing for bars and restaurants.
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Bikky
Unifies first-party guest data across ordering, POS, and delivery to power segmentation, lifetime value, and marketing.
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Birdeye
AI reputation platform for multi-location businesses: review monitoring, review generation, listings management, and local SEO.
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Bland AI
Developer platform for building custom restaurant voice agents that handle orders, reservations, and FAQs at scale.
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Bloom Intelligence
Captures restaurant guest data (including via WiFi), unifies profiles, and automates email and SMS marketing.
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BrightLocal
Local SEO audits, Google Business Profile management, review monitoring, citation tracking, and rank tracking for local businesses.
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Chatmeter
Local SEO and reputation platform for multi-location brands, with AI sentiment analysis and listings management.
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Checkmate
Consolidates orders from third-party marketplaces and direct channels into the POS, and powers AI digital menu boards.
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Chowbus
Cloud POS with built-in low-commission online ordering, strong for Asian and independent restaurants.
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ChowNow
Direct online ordering, branded apps, and marketing for independent restaurants without per-order marketplace commissions.
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Clover
Flexible all-in-one POS and payments with integrated online ordering, loyalty, and an app market, popular with independent restaurants.
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Como
Loyalty, CRM, and a branded app (Como Sense) with deep POS integration to drive repeat restaurant visits.
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ConverseNow
Voice AI ordering assistants that automate high-volume phone and drive-thru orders for QSR and pizza chains.
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Craftable
Restaurant and hotel back-office platform unifying purchasing, inventory, recipe costing, and AP automation.
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Crunchtime
Manages inventory, purchasing, recipe costing, food safety, and labor for chains with theoretical-vs-actual usage tracking.
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Datassential
Food-and-beverage market research and menu and trend intelligence used by operators and suppliers for data-driven decisions.
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Deliverect
Middleware that syncs delivery-marketplace and direct online orders straight into your POS and kitchen.
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Deputy
Workforce management with genuine AI auto-scheduling and demand forecasting from your POS and payroll data.