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Lunchbox

Ordering system for restaurants

101-200 employees
  • Hospitality
  • B2B
  • Enterprise
  • Food
  • Delivery
1216 Broadway, New York, NY 10001

Company mission

To help restaurants engage with new and existing customers, developing personalized campaigns suited to their lifestyles.

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

-21% employee growth in 12 months

Otta's take

Theo Margolius headshot

Theo Margolius

COO of Otta

Even though restaurants benefit from the business provided by delivery platforms such as Uber Eats and Grubhub, there are significant fees involved, and restaurants may also lose regular customers to these marketplaces.

Lunchbox is a food-tech start-up that enables restaurants to build ordering experiences on their own websites and apps. It helps them engage directly with their customers, offer a more personalized service, and improve their profit margin.

Lunchbox's customer base has grown significantly since 2019, partly due to the increase in sales that the platform is able to deliver, and it already works with an impressive roster of multi-site clients, like Mexicue, Mulberry & Vine and Clean Juice. With strong funding at its back, the company plans to recruit more restaurants (not just chains but small, independent ones), improve the product, and expand its team.

Benefits

  • Equity packages
  • Comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental, and vision)
  • Online mental health therapy — we make wellness a priority!
  • Unlimited PTO from day one and paid leave for all new parents
  • A WFH stipend, monthly wellness allowance, and amazing Lunchbox merchandise
  • The coolest perk ever — we’ll pay for any food-related tattoo!

Company values

  • Customer is always first: We exist to fight the old regime. To be David fighting Goliath. To bring the profits back to the restaurants
  • Act like you own the kitchen: We're working towards a big mission. We get sh*t done. We're a team of executors, empowered to drive the mission home
  • We're a team, not a family: We work with and learn from the best-of-the-best. We are regularly pushed out of our comfort zones to grow in our own space
  • Top talent is in every seat: Everyone who joins us changes our company a little more. We hire bar-raisers with inclusivity, talent and execution in mind
  • Move fast, break things: We love an ugly V1. We work to preserve the founding moment and we stay hungry and foolish. We break things and then repair them
  • We're transparent and direct: We share almost everything. The good, the bad, and the ugly. Transparency strengthens the integrity of the culture
  • Always amp it up: Fortune favors the bold and stubborn. And we're both. We're moving towards a mission with a heavy lift. We're optimistics and executors

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Feb 2022

$50m

SERIES B

Oct 2020

$20m

SERIES A

$72m

Total funding

This company has top investors

Founders

They worked as a Creative Specialist for Apple for a year, before working as CMO of Bareburger Group. They left this role in November 2019 to co-found Lunchbox, where they have worked as CEO since.

Andrew Boryk

(Head of Innovation)

They worked as CTO of Tapt from 2015 to 2017 while studying at Mercy College, alongside working as a Freelance iOS Developer. They served as a Software Engineer at Johnson & Johnson before co-founding Lunchbox in April 2019.

Endorsements

All

Opportunities to learn (4)

Meaningful work (3)

Supportive management (3)

Autonomy (2)

Nice people (2)

Hard working team (2)

Flexible working (2)

Strong leadership (2)

Career progression (1)

Intelligent people (1)

There is a lot of personal responsibility given to employees to understand their job, do the work and do it well. There is a bit of work/life balance that naturally occurs from that level of autonomy which is great.

Design

Autonomy

Oct 2021

Everyone who works here is AMAZING. Great culture!

Design

Nice people

Oct 2021

As long as you get your work done, you are able to have a normal life.

Design

Flexible working

Oct 2021

We've grown by 4X this year and continue to exceed performance expectations. The pace of our success creates new opportunities for everyone to grow within their role or take on new and exciting jobs.

Sales & Account Management

Growing fast

Oct 2021

Our founders and executives create culture and empower the team through empathy and curiosity. I feel supported everyday.

Sales & Account Management

Strong leadership

Oct 2021

Everyone is encouraged to have a strong voice and share their ideas; regardless of your role. I've lead strategic initiatives that are outside the scope of my role. Feedback from across the business always has a measurable impact!

Sales & Account Management

My opinions are valued

Oct 2021

Every team I've come in contact with are very diverse ! It is what makes Lunchbox special!

Sales & Account Management

People of all backgrounds are welcomed

Oct 2021

Everyone knows what is expected of them and that is generally disrupting the restaurant industry...its super hard to to get excited about disrupting and dismantling something that is long overdue for such!

Sales & Account Management

Team energy

Oct 2021

Slack is king and everyone uses radical candor.

Sales & Account Management

Open and honest communication

Oct 2021

So far Lunchbox has been great. The product itself is second to none, the people are unbelievable, and upper leadership takes and implements feedback. It's a super-inclusive environment that promotes working hard and a good work-life balance.

Sales & Account Management

Opportunities to learn

Oct 2021

This is restaurant tech built by restaurant people. It's a valuable product that will improve marketing, ordering, and operations in restaurants to help give them back the power and to own the customer/customer experience.

Sales & Account Management

Meaningful work

Oct 2021

The people. 100 times over the people. They are wonderful, collaborative, intelligent, and hungry. You can't beat them and it makes work more fun since we're all inspiring one another and leaning in to help one another.

Sales & Account Management

Intelligent people

Oct 2021

Lunchbox has been the most supportive and fun company I have ever worked at - the tone is set from the leadership team and I have never encountered a more honest, open, and transparent group to work for. The people are genuinely fun, curious to learn, insanely intelligent, and motivating. The energy is infectious and the mission is clear - amazing place that I feel fortunate to be employed at!

Sales & Account Management

Strong leadership

Oct 2021

You have the freedom to work wherever and micro-managing is completely NON-existent. Managers all value the quality of your work and are not concerned with how you get it done. You have the autonomy to be creative and get the job done how you see fit.

Sales & Account Management

Autonomy

Oct 2021

Incredibly open, honest, and supportive management. Lunchbox managers have all shown deep, and genuine interest in learning about my career goals and assisting me reach those as best they can.

Sales & Account Management

Supportive management

Oct 2021

Incredible culture, a clear mission, happy employees, and solid wages!

Sales & Account Management

Nice people

Oct 2021

We are helping bring control back to restauranteurs and building the next generation of food technology.

Sales & Account Management

Meaningful work

Oct 2021

Great pay for their employees.

Sales & Account Management

Fair compensation

Oct 2021

Lunchbox has been a great place for me to utilize my past experience and contribute new ideas. The cross functional team collaboration has been fantastic ! Communication is clear and leadership is sincerely interested in me as a person !

Sales & Account Management

Opportunities to learn

Oct 2021

Lunchbox has empowered me to utilize my past experiences to help contribute to the " big picture ". The team culture is great and leadership is actively involved to help when needed !

Sales & Account Management

Hard working team

Oct 2021

I really enjoy the team collaboration !

Sales & Account Management

Supportive management

Oct 2021

When I joined Lunchbox my manager let me know there would be several opportunities to learn new things. They encourage your career development and want you to learn new skills that will help your role in the company succeed.

Marketing

Opportunities to learn

Oct 2021

Since we are a remote company, some would think it's difficult to work in different time zones. This is the opposite at Lunchbox. People are very sensitive to your working hours and what you have going on in your life outside of work.

Marketing

Flexible working

Oct 2021

Lunchbox is constantly coming up with new products for its customers. It is exciting to see these products in action for our many customers.

Marketing

Innovative product

Oct 2021

You can feel the impact that each and every person on this team has in growing our partners' businesses. I cannot think of another industry more in need than the restaurant industry right now, and it feels amazing to help them grow!

Marketing

Meaningful work

Oct 2021

This is the most inclusive company I've ever worked for. Our CEO cares about our people and leads with action, not just words.

Marketing

Diversity is a priority

Oct 2021

Is there any better place to learn, grow, and get uncomfortable than a fast-growing start-up? Lunchbox is growing at lightning speed and I've learned more in my 6 months here than I did at a position I held for 2 years. Our team even provides a monthly education and learning stipend if we are interested in growing our skills through external resources.

Marketing

Opportunities to learn

Oct 2021

There is complete guidance and devotion from every section of leadership, to help everyone succeed and impact. From the very start, leadership is looking to build you up in skillset.

Marketing

Career progression

Oct 2021

Our management is super supportive is ensuring we have all the right tools to execute. They also lend way to autonomy, building us up on an individual scale.

Marketing

Supportive management

Oct 2021

The culture is amazing and ideation process involves everyone. The team is incredibly hard working in helping the industry, aligning with the mission.

Marketing

Hard working team

Oct 2021

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