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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.
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MarketMan
Cloud restaurant inventory, purchasing, and food-cost platform with AI invoice scanning and vendor price tracking.
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Marqii
Syncs menus, hours, and business info across Google, Yelp, and apps, and manages online reviews from one dashboard.
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Marsello
Loyalty, email, and SMS marketing for retail and hospitality brands, tied to POS and Shopify customer data.
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Menufy
Done-for-you online ordering website with flat, commission-free pricing plus built-in marketing and loyalty.
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NCR Aloha
Established cloud restaurant POS from NCR Voyix with fixed and mobile ordering, real-time analytics, and deep kitchen integration.
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NiceJob
Reputation-marketing software that automates review requests and social proof, with AI replies to positive reviews.
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Notch
Wholesale ordering and accounts-payable automation connecting restaurants with their food and drink distributors.
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Olo
Order aggregation, delivery dispatch, payments and guest data for large multi-location restaurant brands.
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OpenTable
Largest consumer reservation platform with a discovery marketplace, table management, waitlist, and no-show protection tools.
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Oracle MICROS Simphony
Enterprise cloud restaurant POS from Oracle syncing front-of-house, kitchen, and back-office across multi-location operations.
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Otter
Consolidates delivery and direct orders from DoorDash, Uber Eats, and more onto one screen, with POS and AI ads.
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Ovation
AI-first guest experience platform that turns two-question SMS surveys into recovery, reviews, and operational insights.
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Owner.com
Commission-free direct online ordering, branded website and app, SEO, and automated marketing for independent restaurants.
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Paytronix
Guest-engagement suite uniting loyalty, CRM, online ordering, and AI-driven marketing for restaurants and c-stores.