Top Food Tech Startups
The driving forces that are shifting the interest in food tech include climate change, digitalization opportunities, as well as health-focused consumers. Improved technologies focused on animal product substitutes continue to grow and get new investments. And as prices decrease, these products will gain more popularity among users. Foodservice robots are making their way into many e-restaurants. These robots bring together the convenience of ordering online, personalization of meals, access to healthy and nutritious elements, and the speed of getting food to a table.
While some companies focus on the food itself, many others are exploring how to process, package, and distribute this new wave of sustainable, healthy, and innovative food. Further, food preservation companies are also leading the way in reducing food waste while improving product quality during transportation. Changing consumer preferences of quality, convenience, and gourmet products in foodservice have led to a rise in the category of fast-casual restaurants and placed pressure on fast food restaurants to rethink their delivery models. Innovators in this segment are focused on traceability, sustainability, improving freshness and eliminating food waste.
Inspired by the innovative trends revolutionizing the food tech landscape, this issue of Food and Beverages Tech Review is elaborately crafted to assist you in fostering productive partnerships. In this edition, we have compiled a list of the top 10 food tech startups to highlight their significant contributions in the space. We present to you Food and Beverages Tech Review’s “Top 10 Food Tech Startups– 2019.”
BayPOS
BayPOS is a joint venture company between Plenus and SIOS, which was established in June 2015. BayPOS software was first released in California in March 2016, and it’s globally deployed in over 65locations. BayPOS software was initially developed for YAYOI restaurants; after that, Plenus provided restaurant business knowledge & deployment location, alongside SIOS providing the software development knowledge. The company empowers restaurants with state of the art and highly advanced IT systems. BayPOS is at the forefront of offering state-of-the-art and highly advanced restaurant operations support system
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Botrista
Botrista is an innovative food and beverage technology inventor and provider that changes the dynamics of the beverage industry with its Drink Bot that allows restaurants and eateries to make healthier drinks. The company makes it possible for restaurants to create fresher drinks that have high sugar content and artificial flavors. Botrista recommends recipes and suggestions for the craft beverages that would go with a particular cuisine to help the restaurants make the most of Drink Bot
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EAT’N
The San Francisco-based company offers an agile application for food establishments to deliver a memorable eating experience to the guests. EAT’N shouldered the responsibility to improve guest experience and optimize restaurant operations. With the company’s automation in place, ordering processes get simplified, eliminating the needfor staff to approach the guests for administrative tasks and processing payments. The company’s app helps customers to dine at theirtables by ordering through their app
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iPourIt
A revolutionary self-serve beverage dispenses technology that allows taproom and fast-casual patrons to pour their beer, cider, wine, cocktails, and coffee. The iPourIt model is driven by RFID (radio-frequency identification) technology, empowering patrons to choose from a wide variety of available drinks, skip waiting, and have fun. Whenever customers check into an iPourIt-powered taproom, they present their credit card and driver’s license through which their age, gender, zip code are all collected. Once the license has been scanned and authenticated, a tab is created, which allows the patron to pour up to 32 ounces of beer and/or ten ounces of wine, enabling them to pour their drink and better their personal experience at a taproom
Check This Out: iPourIt
Lightning Technologies
Lightning Technologies developed a sustainable pallet that protects food quality (including, protein-related goods like meats, fish, and poultry) and ensures enhanced safety and shipping efficiency. The company’s pallets are disrupting the food and beverage market because of its superior composition. The company manufacturers, and pools the Most Technologically Advanced Pallet on the Planet™
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Morsum :
Morsum is the fully data integrated Food Operating System (fOS), uniting the entire operational value chain, end-to-end. With an objective, Morsum fOS is to eliminate functional and data disconnects between PoS systems to inventory and labor management, which often leaves operators with inflexible operating models and unnecessarily high costs. Harnessing a breathtaking array of 20+ products, machine models, and advanced data tech, fOS obliterates unnecessary costs from misaligned resources and effort. Morsum fOS delivers new levels of confidence to restaurant operators in the key food, consumer, labor, and sourcing decisions. It is an end-to-end, module-based food system that unites the entire operational value chain and locks future returns for and from restaurant operator partners
Check This Out: morsum.co
Qathena
Qathena is redefining the market dynamics with its unique, end-to-end digital order management system that is all set to level the playing field in the restaurant business. Qathena bridges all technology gaps by ensuring that restaurants function as a high-tech supply chain, from the time an order is received until it’s delivered to the customer. Whether it’s accepting orders, inventory management, or updating kitchen displays, Qathena ensures that every process is seamlessly automated and integrated for the maximum benefit of franchises. One of the biggest perks of using the Qathena platform is the full visibility it brings into restaurant operations from a single touchpoint at all times
Check This Out: Qathena.com
Eats365 :
Eats365 is a fast, simple-to-use, fully-featured iPad-based POS software for restaurants. It provides restaurants with an easy-to-use, user-interactive point-of-sale system. By adopting the Eats365 user app; patrons can find, browse, reserve, order and pay for dine-in or takeaway orders. It also offers features like separate checks, split checks, table management, and tips management in one place. Eats365 is a flexible and modular platform that is designed to accommodate restaurants of all shapes and sizes. It has features that can fulfill the needs of dining facilities of any scale or density. Eats365’s platform supports multi-currency and offers multi-language support.
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I-TAP R2 :
I-Tap R2 is a wireless, battery-powered device designed to increase keg yields from 70 percent up to 98 percent. I-TAP was incorporated and received its federal apprenticeship standards from the U.S. Department of Labor in 2003. The device is powered IoT device that attaches to any beer or wine dispensing valve in a matter of minutes
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Robo Bartending, LLC :
Robo Bartending, LLC is the Texas distributor for the world’s most advanced automated bartending system. It comes with over 700 preprogrammed drink recipes that are all poured instantly. By virtually eliminating over-pours, under-pours, spills and free drinks, the Smartender maximizes efficiency and can pay for itself with liquor savings alone in a matter of months. These machines are used by industry leaders across the country all looking to save money with the world of automation
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