Owner

Owner is a Palo Alto software company that sells independent restaurants an all-in-one system for the sales they take directly, rather than through third-party delivery marketplaces. A single subscription covers the restaurant's website and SEO, its online menu and ordering, a branded mobile app, email, SMS and push marketing, loyalty and rewards, reviews and listings management, catering and delivery, a kitchen tablet and reporting, with integrations into the incumbent point-of-sale systems. The pitch is margin: an order placed on the restaurant's own site avoids the commission a marketplace charges. Adam Guild built the first version to help his mother's dog-grooming business and co-founded the company in 2020 with Dean Bloembergen, who had previously built technology for large restaurant chains; it says it now serves around 10,000 restaurants in the United States.