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Upserve – Angus Davis’ business venture to start restaurants management platform

Not today, but since historical background restaurants or hotels have been playing a crucial role in human life. Whether it is a personal celebration or business program, we preferred restaurants to celebrate our joy. Due to all these reasons and needs, restaurants become an important part of our lives. However, every individual demands the best service from the restaurants.

In this era, only such restaurants that meet the superior expectations of customers can grow their business. To help the restaurants to manage everything, Upserve has been working since 2009. It is the restaurant management platform that enabled the smooth and fast management of the entire business.

About Upserve

As said earlier, Upserve is a perfect platform for the management of restaurants. For that, it builds a restaurant-specific point of sale (POS) software along with several other tools. Like online ordering, marketing, and loyalty tools. Also, it offers the tools helpful in increasing guest retention as well as manage costs in real-time. Thus, enabling superior service management of restaurants that results in customer satisfaction. Yet, increasing the profits of the business.

The backstory of foundation

In 2009, A. Davis set up Swipely. Later on, it renames as Upserve. Initially, it was the basic social network platform allowing the members to shared their purchases. However, it jumped into a loyalty platform for local merchandise. This initiative, offered some rewards to repeated customers, increasing customer retention. Later on, the firm captured Breadcrumb POS  from Groupon and marked the new beginning with a new name Upserve.

Exploring the business

Upserve became a partner with Grubhub and started offering integrated online ordering. Also, it soon started own ordering solution. Thereafter, Upserve made a deal with Pesry and enabled first POS integration to streamline reservations and table management platform. To enhance the service, it also launches Upserve Marketplace.

Person behinds Upserve success

Founder- Angus Davis

A person behind the formation of Swipely, today is known as Upserve is a serial entrepreneur and businessman. Angus is also known for his business venture  Tellme. It was the mobile search startup that raised good money in sales.

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Early career

During his young age, he helped start a small New England ISP in 1995. Later on, he moved to California to become Netscape’s youngest employee. In 2009, he founded Upserve and also served as CEO. However, the firm later on acquired by Vista Equity Partners in 2017. He Joined Foundation Capital as the firm’s first partner on the East Coast in September 2019.

Other works

Apart from that, he has served on the state board of education. There he helped establish Teach for America’s Rhode Island corps. As well, assist to open some of the state’s highest-performing public charter schools.

Sheryl Hoskins- Upserve’s CEO

She is present CEO serving at the post since 2018. Before that, Sheryl served as Chief Revenue & Product Officer at ACTIVE Network. Also, she worked at Global Payment Inc., McKesson, and GE Healthcare IT. Coming to Hoskins’ Education, she attended Quinlan School of Business, Loyola University Chicago, for Master of Business Administration. Further, she attended Illinois Institute of Technology to study B.S. Electrical Engineering.

Sheryl Hoskins
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Awards and recognition of Upserve

Upserve had set the name in the list of top 100 America’s Most Promising Companies in 2013. It was decided by Forbes magazine. As well, Forbes magazine included the name of the founder and former CEO of firm Angus Davis in the list of America’s Most Promising CEOs Under 35. The excellence of the restaurant management platform Upserve also noticed in the New York Times. Moreover, CBS This Morning and Wall Street Journal also included its name in their list.

Bottom Line

Developing the best platform for the management of restaurants, Upserve helps restaurants improved the business. Starting from optimizing menus and staff performance to boosting profits; everything is possible with Upserve. As well, it enabled the market-leading cloud restaurant POS, and user-friendly processing, and ordering on its platform. Apart from that, it enabled mobile restaurant organization. Yet, it allowed hotel owners to integrate with leading third-party restaurant apps through its Marketplace. Today, more than 10,000 restaurants/hotels utilize Upserve and rise their business.

A local start-up changed the history of restaurant management is a very little time span. No doubt, it’s an all-in-one solution to successfully run hotels.

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