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DoorDash for Merchants
Largest US delivery marketplace for customer acquisition and last-mile logistics, plus a white-label first-party ordering option.
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Eat App
Cloud reservations, table management, and guest CRM that automates reminders to cut no-shows.
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Epos Now
Cloud POS for restaurants and retail with ingredient-level inventory, table management, and 100+ app integrations.
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Fivestars
Small-business loyalty and automated marketing, now part of SumUp (merchant product rebranded SumUp Connect).
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Flipdish
All-in-one online ordering, POS, and kiosks with an AI phone agent and AI menu optimization for restaurants.
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GatherUp
Review and customer-feedback software with AI replies, sentiment analysis, and multi-location listings management.
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GloriaFood
Free, commission-free online ordering and table reservations for restaurants, with paid add-ons for apps and payments.
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Google Business Profile
The free Google listing that controls how a restaurant appears in Google Search, Maps, and the local pack.
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GoTab
Mobile-first POS and QR ordering platform for high-volume, guest-paced venues like breweries, food halls, and bars.
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Grubhub for Restaurants
Grubhub's restaurant side: marketplace listing, delivery via its driver network, and a commission-free Grubhub Direct site.
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Heartland Restaurant
Restaurant POS from Heartland (a Global Payments company), now branded Genius, with table, kitchen, and multi-location tools.
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Hi Auto
Voice AI for QSR drive-thru and phone ordering, processing over 100M drive-thru orders annually across major chains.
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Homebase
All-in-one scheduling, time clock, and payroll built for hourly teams, with a free tier for single-location restaurants.
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Hostie AI
AI phone host that answers calls, takes reservations and orders, and handles guest questions for restaurants.
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HotSchedules
Restaurant staff scheduling with sales-driven labor forecasting, shift swaps, and team messaging, by Fourth.
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Kea
Voice AI that answers restaurant calls, takes phone orders, and drops clean tickets into the POS, 24/7.
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Klaviyo
Owned-marketing platform combining email, SMS, and a customer data platform with segmentation and automated flows.
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KORONA POS
Cloud POS and inventory system for retail and quick-service, with per-terminal pricing and deep stock tools.
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Lavu
iPad restaurant POS with Marty AI, an operational-intelligence layer that analyzes POS, payroll, and scheduling data overnight.
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Lightspeed Restaurant
Cloud POS with inventory, multi-location management, and advanced reporting for restaurants and bars.
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Lineup.ai
Generates daily, weekly, and monthly sales and labor forecasts to guide scheduling and demand-based inventory ordering.
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Loman AI
AI phone agent that answers calls, takes takeout orders, books reservations, and answers guest questions.
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Lunchbox
White-label online ordering, mobile apps, loyalty and catering for growing multi-unit restaurant brands.
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MarginEdge
Digitizes invoices into line-item data, syncs to accounting, and produces daily food-cost and P&L visibility.