33 Food & Restaurant App Business Ideas You Can Start Today [2024]

Trainual is a software platform that helps small businesses effortlessly scale by capturing every process, role, and responsibility, creating a consistent, teachable, and scalable knowledge base. With over 15k users in over 80 countries, Trainual has grown to $2M ARR by catering to businesses looking for something more manageable than an enterprise learning system.

Learn how the Co-Founder and CEO of NOSON grew their business to $1.2M in revenue in 27 markets using tools like Typeform, Zapier and Google for only $300 a month, and their advice for entrepreneurs just starting out.

Travel-tech startup RatePunk created a browser extension that compares hotel prices across different booking websites for free and achieved over 3,000 installs within a few weeks of launch, while learning valuable marketing lessons from social media platforms, micro-influencers, and online communities.

This case study showcases an entrepreneur who purchased an established online business generating $1,200 per month, and provides insights into what it takes to grow and run a successful yet small business while improving skills in digital marketing.

GoPuff's successful consumer products delivery business is now valued at $15 billion after raising $3.4 billion through nine different funding rounds, including a $1 billion one in July 2021, and generated an impressive $1 billion in revenue in 2021 alone, up from $300 million in 2020.

Learn how a startup founder turned his passion for technology into a lucrative food delivery business, now earning over $167k per month.

David created DesignEvo, an easy-to-use logo maker that has over 29 million worldwide users and brings in about 1 million dollars each month, by realizing that there is a large number of users without professional graphic or multimedia editing skills, and building sufficiently user-friendly tools.

Splynx, a SAAS solution for internet and voice providers with software features such as billing, payment collections, integration with accounting platforms, and network management, has achieved an ARR of around 3 million USD and 50% annual growth with 750 companies in 50 different countries as clients, and is hoping to expand further into the US and Canadian markets.

VizyPay is a bootstrapped fintech that provides transparent and cost-saving payment processing solutions to small business merchants across rural America, with over $27 million saved for merchants through their Cash Discount Program, experiencing a revenue growth of 28% year-over-year in Q1.

FitSW founder Jacob Montoya bootstrapped his company to $25K monthly revenue, helping over 20,000 personal trainers manage their businesses through software that enables them to create workouts, track progress, plan meals, accept payments, and manage schedules, and has now expanded to include FindTrainGain, enabling people to join live online fitness classes from the comfort of their homes.

Maynuu helps small restaurant owners streamline their online ordering process, making an average monthly revenue of $3,050 in the past 12 months and growing about 200% throughout the pandemic, with plans for Southeast Asian expansion and global distribution.

Case Study: From a 500 square-foot salad shop to over 100 locations, Sweetgreen founders disrupt fast-casual dining through innovation in tech, despite coronavirus challenges.

Tripadvisor is a global travel advice network with over 1 billion reviews and recommendations from almost 8 million companies that generated 902 million U.S. dollars in global revenue in 2021, representing a 49% increase from the previous year.

Discover how a PhD student's creation of CAPTCHA has evolved into the language-learning app Duolingo, valued at $1.5 billion today and experiencing a surge of growth during the pandemic.

Maynuu helps small restaurant owners streamline their online ordering process, making an average monthly revenue of $3,050 in the past 12 months and growing about 200% throughout the pandemic, with plans for Southeast Asian expansion and global distribution.

Tripadvisor is a global travel advice network with over 1 billion reviews and recommendations from almost 8 million companies that generated 902 million U.S. dollars in global revenue in 2021, representing a 49% increase from the previous year.