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The Food-Service Industry Hub

A living map of the industry โ€” the software, physical tools, SOPs, and companies across restaurants, quick-serve, vending, and meal service. Built in the open as I research it.

Software

Toast

All-in-one restaurant platform: POS, payments, kitchen display, online ordering, and reporting for full-service and quick-serve.

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Square for Restaurants

Restaurant POS and management from Square, popular with smaller and newer operators for its low barrier to entry and integrated payments.

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Physical Tools & Automation

Flippy (Miso Robotics)

A robotic fry-station arm that automates frying and repetitive cook-line tasks in quick-serve kitchens.

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SOPs & Playbooks

Line Check SOP

A standard pre-service checklist to verify every station is stocked, labeled, temped, and ready before doors open โ€” the backbone of consistent execution.

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Players & Companies

365 Retail Markets

Self-service micro-market, smart vending, and unattended retail technology for workplaces and food-service operators.

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Seeded with a few entries to show the structure. Your Airtable food-automation database can be imported here โ€” each tool, company, and SOP becoming its own searchable, linkable page.