Acquisition
Sep 2021Acquired Appetize for $415 million in cash and stock to expand into enterprise venues, sports, and entertainment.
SourceCompany research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 5, 2026
Overview
SpotOn is a privately held restaurant-technology and financial-services company that helps independent and multi-location operators accept payments, manage restaurant operations, grow revenue, and improve profitability. Its strategy is restaurant-first, supported by cloud software, proprietary hardware, payments, integrations, 24/7 support, and increasingly AI-driven financial insight.
Primary product
SpotOn Restaurant: a cloud restaurant-management and point-of-sale platform combining POS/payments, commission-free online ordering, reservations, labor scheduling/payroll, marketing/loyalty, reporting, integrations, and AI-powered profitability analysis.
Founded
2017
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States (100 California Street, 9th Floor).
Team size
1,000–2,000 (third-party estimates; SpotOn reported 2,000 employees in May 2022)
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Software Development / Fintech
Sub-industry
Restaurant technology, point-of-sale, payments, hospitality SaaS, embedded financial services
Offices
San Francisco, California, United States
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Greenwood Village, Colorado, United States
Southfield, Michigan, United States
San Rafael, California, United States
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Bengaluru, India
Mexico City, Mexico
Kraków, Poland
Business model
Funding
People & investors
Leadership
Co-Founder and Co-CEO
Co-Founder and Co-CEO / Founder and CEO
Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer
Joon Huh
Work & culture
Official materials emphasize client-first hospitality, honesty and transparency, diversity, heart-and-hustle execution, innovation, learning, and direct support for local operators. Job postings indicate a fast-moving, execution-heavy, restaurant-focused environment; public employee-feedback summaries also flag uneven management and sales pressure by team.
Work style
Flexible
Visa sponsorship
Limited
Compensation
Compensation is role- and location-dependent and may include equity/stock. A 2026 Staff AI Engineer posting listed $210,000–$290,000+ base pay; a Bengaluru senior-engineer posting listed ₹3.2M–₹4.8M annually. At least some U.S. roles explicitly state that visa sponsorship is unavailable and U.S. work authorization is required.
Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
401(k) with company match
Equity grants / company stock plan
Flexible time off and holidays
Parental leave
Transit benefits
Mental-health resources
Technology stipend
Tuition reimbursement up to $2,000 per calendar year
Employee resource groups
Product & market
Pricing
Freemium/ tiered software plus payment processing and hardware; SpotOn says plans start at $0/month and scale with the business. Public 2026 pricing analyses report customized sales-led pricing, with examples ranging from $0 software plus higher processing to paid per-station plans; verify commercial terms directly because rates and fees vary by contract.
Differentiators
- —Restaurant-first integrated platform rather than payments alone
- —Commission-free first-party online ordering
- —Connected POS, labor, reservations, marketing, guest, and P&L data
- —24/7 human support and hands-on operator service
- —AI profitability recommendations built from operational and financial data
- —Rapid Fund settlement and embedded working-capital products
- —Proprietary hardware and offline capability
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
Approximately $100M–$150M annually (third-party estimate; LinkedIn-derived estimate cited approximately $110M)
Signals & risks
Acquisition
Prior acquisitions publicly cited include Emagine (2018), SeatNinja (2020), and Dolce, a labor-management company integrated into SpotOn Restaurant.
SourceOther
Oct 2023Sold its Sports & Entertainment business to Shift4 and stated it would focus resources on restaurants. This is a material portfolio contraction, though not a shutdown of SpotOn overall.
Latest news
SpotOn · Jul 2026
Reported record Q2 customer, sales, and installation momentum; highlighted Profit AI, Rapid Fund, SpotOn Capital, and direct-ordering initiatives.
SpotOn · Jun 2026
Opened beta access to an AI capability that proactively identifies profitability changes, explains likely causes, and recommends actions without automatically changing operations.
SpotOn · Apr 2026
Launched Rapid Fund for near-real-time card-deposit access and expanded SpotOn Capital through a partnership with Parafin.
Business Wire · Oct 2023
Announced sale of the Sports & Entertainment business to Shift4 and a restaurant-only strategic focus.
Open Positions
73 jobs at SpotOn
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