Six months after taking in its initial funding to provide independent restaurants with online ordering tools, Owner.com is back with an expanded suite of offerings around delivery and marketing automation after securing $15 million in fresh funding. Aiming to manage a restaurant’s entire digital presence, the company has relaunched itself to offer new tools for its users to do everything from create and update their websites, email marketing and leverage features like recruiting and reputation...
Independent restaurant owners used to heavily rely on foot traffic as their way of marketing. In 2020, the global pandemic changed all that. Overnight, restaurants needed to set up online ordering, have a plan for pick-up and delivery and find new ways to get in front of customers no longer going out to eat. Inspired by his mother’s struggles to attract customers to her dog grooming business, Adam Guild teamed up with Dean Bloembergen to create Owner.com to help independent restaurant owners b...
reader (the devices which allow smartphones to connect to payment readers) and create a non-fungible token (NFT) membership. The NFT is then minted when users “tap in” to the restaurant.
Americans love eating out. This year, we’re forecast to spend more than $1.1 trillion doing so — the highest total ever, per the National Restaurant Association. Trouble is, restaurants need people to provide those drinks, meals and snacks. By the end of the year, the industry will likely employ nearly 16 million of us nationwide. But it won’t be enough: Nearly half of food service employers today say they need more workers. Theoretically, automation could go a long way to ease the labor shortage. To that end, startups have tried to pitch ...
RRF is no longer accepting new applications. SBA is awarding funding through the Restaurant Revitalization Program to restaurants, bars, and other similar places of business that serve food or drin...
Patio season is in full swing, but there's still plenty of time to utilize restaurant funding to optimize your sales and improve service.
Gastrotech app NeoTaste today announced the successful closing of its Series A funding round.... Maresa Buttlar from Earlybird share: "Restaurant discovery is broken, and no platform has...
OSI Restaurant Partners (which manages Outback Steakhouse). The company had previously raised $21.5 million in earlier rounds of funding. Dig Inn will use the new investment to launch more...
Restaurant365, an Irvine, CA-based provider of a restaurant enterprise management software platform, raised $135M in funding surpassing $1B valuation
enterprise restaurant chains and ghost kitchens, today announced the closing of a $50 million Series B funding round led by Coatue with participation from existing investors Primary and 645...