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Quality GPTs - Custom designed GPTs for businesses

QualityGPTs

GPTs, personalized for you.
Agency providing easy to use AI tools to small businesses.

Viper's Venom - food and beverages specialty foods

Viper's Venom

The best salsa you'll ever taste
Salsa King by Viper's Venom is a line of salsa and hot sauce flavors that doesn't compromise on taste and spice - but without the burn of vinegar-based products. Our recipes are without preservatives - only natural and organic ingredients are utilized. That dovetails ...

Home Chef - e-commerce food and beverages groceries

Home Chef

Fresh ingredient delivery
Our mission is to make cooking fresh food at home as easy as possible. Our chefs shop for you and plan your meals, allowing you to choose from a new menu every week. We offer a meal delivery service that includes all of the fresh ingredients and instructions needed ...

The Juice Studio - food and beverages specialty foods organic food

The Juice Studio

We are a Juice Bar inside of a fitness center
The Juice Studio is a Juice Bar helping health and fitness conscious consumers reach their goals.

Uncorkd - SaaS food and beverages wine and spirits restaurants

Uncorkd

Digital Beverage Menus at the Table
Uncorkd provides a platform for restaurants to educate their customers with iPad menus, instantly update and customize their menu in real-time, deepen digital engagement with customers and improve their beverage program.

SEASONS SODA - food and beverages

SEASONS SODA

NATURAL BEVERAGE COMPANY
Our signature demi-sec sodas™ are lithely effervescent and off-dry, delicately reflecting the nuances of the seasonal bounty. From field to finish, our aim is to minimize intervention, allowing whole, varietal ingredients to express the subtleties of place and ...

SpinFry - food and beverages restaurants

SpinFry

Removes 50% of oil and 25% fat/sodium from fried foods.
SpinFry's patented technology removes 25% of fat & sodium out of fried food, while improving taste. Company is managed by ex-CEO of McDonalds, former Head of McDonalds Marketing at Leo Burnett, and serial entrepreneur. It has 2 fryer models fully commercialized, ...

Single Servings - food and beverages cooking

Single Servings

Blue Apron from a Kiosk for one
Single Servings are individual portions of fresh ingredients to make one delicious recipe. They make home cooking fresh, convenient, and affordable for the tens of millions of singles living in major cities across the US. A tasty home-cooked meal is just three ...

Lowcost Email cheap flights alerts

NowBoarding ✈️

Invite-only mailing list.
We search the best weekend and long-haul flight deals so you can book before everyone else.

CookItFor.Us - e-commerce food and beverages marketplaces recipes

CookItFor.Us

Any Recipe. Made Fresh. Delivered.
CookItFor.Us is an online social community connecting Cravers to Makers, to get recipes made. We enable Cravers (people who love to eat) to get their selected recipes made fresh, and delivered to their door; and fully licensed Makers (caterers, restaurants, bakeries, ...

Aries Innovations - food and beverages food processing

Aries Innovations

Consumer, and commercial, solutions for efficient methods of producing desired results.
Current Project: The purpose of the Breader Buddy is to eliminate the mess commonly made while breading food products, meanwhile, offering the consumer a convenient solution for preparing breaded or coated foods.

DinnDinn - social media location based services food and beverages local

DinnDinn

Friends sharing food
DinnDinn is a virtual fridge for all the drinks, dishes, and desserts you love or hate! Make sure to choose the tastes you like on the 'tongue' inside your profile, it will help you find TasteBuds with the same tastes as you and even dishes, drinks, or desserts ...

Cardoona - SaaS B2B food and beverages restaurants

Cardoona

Food price monitoring for restaurants
Cardoona alerts restaurants when prices change on any of their items, and they can also log in to view trends on items, helping them better understand the big picture. Restaurants can significantly increase their profitability by streamlining food purchases, which ...

TruckSpotting - mobile food and beverages gps

TruckSpotting

Food Truck GPS and ERP
TruckSpotting is a suite of mobile applications and a website that displays the locations, menus, and schedules of food trucks in real time. It's free for the trucks, free for the users. At its heart, it is much much more than that - it is the independent system ...

Invitation codes

The referral community
Invitation App is a social network where people post their referral codes and collect rewards on autopilot.

Simple Squares - food and beverages sports specialty foods Healthy Eating

Simple Squares

Paleo + organic nutrition bars infused with herbs
Simplified Foods is on a mission to create simple, great tasting and healthy snacks. Its flagship products, Simple Squares®, are organic, paleo, nutrition bars infused with honey and herbs. Headquartered in Chicago, IL, we strive to transform our grab-and-go ...

Indulgery - food and beverages wine and spirits restaurants social media marketing

Indulgery

Discover & Follow Local Specials & Events
Indulgery allows you to discover, follow & share local specials and events at the businesses that matter to you. With Indulgery, you can customize your results with our search filters. Whether you're looking for a place in Lincoln Park with beer specials & bar ...

LineHop - food and beverages mobile commerce small and medium businesses mobile payments

LineHop

Order Online Not In Line
LineHop is the easiest, lowest cost mobile ordering system for family entertainment centers. Our first product, SnackBar is built for the bowling industry where customers can order food and beverage from their phone. We collect customer demographic data and provided ...

Real Food Blends - health care medical food and beverages ventures for good

Real Food Blends

100% real food meals for those on feeding tubes. Disrupting the $10B enteral food market.
Real Food Blends provides shelf-stable, 100% real food meals that can be fed through a feeding tube. Unlike the current commercial formulas that make up the $10 billion enteral market, Real Food Blends meals do not contain corn syrup, additives, preservatives or ...

Brewed In Chicago - food and beverages craft beer brewing chicago

Brewed In Chicago

Connecting consumers with Chicago Craft Beer
Brewed in Chicago is an online craft beer community that provides a directory of breweries, bars, and events throughout the Chicago area. Users can locate their favorite beer, provide ratings, and connect with other craft beer consumers. We track detailed information ...

FoodHe.ro - food and beverages big data restaurants nutrition

FoodHe.ro

Smart Specials Menu
Coming Soon....

Meatmill - mobile e-commerce food and beverages marketplaces

Meatmill

Meat Lovers Exclusive Club
Meatmill is a meat hub for all meat aficionados. We provide the highest meat grades and best meat quality in traditional and contemporary cuts. Thru our online and mobile platforms as well as same day home delivery service we bring to you a great shopping experience.We ...

FoodTrace - analytics food and beverages restaurants agriculture

FoodTrace

Next Level Food Sourcing
FoodTrace IS next level food sourcing. We help farmers and artisans sell more and buyers buy better. Built as a powerful software platform providing food businesses with tools for better daily sourcing management.

Distilld - food and beverages wine and spirits communities reviews and recommendations

Distilld

Vivino or Untappd for Whiskey | Data Analytics for Craft Distilleries
Distilld enables you to take a photo of the label or barcode to discover and share whiskey, distilleries and bars with your friends. Keep track of your experiences, personal collection, and wishlist to never forget a drink or recommendation again. Use the world's ...

Earth's Brands - food and beverages specialty foods

Earth's Brands

Specialty Foods Trade, Development and Promotion of Private Label Foods and Beverages
We offer imported specialty food products from Europe. We create our own private labels for certain product categories and market them throughout the United States. Our customers, range from distributors, to markets, to restaurants and can be found all over the ...

RawNature5 - retail food and beverages fitness Health Foods

RawNature5

Almond Milk Protein Drinks
RawNature5 Is an Almond Milk based Protein Drink line. Each product s Gluten Free, Organic, Lactose free and Vegan. There are five flavors that all come in 12oz bottles packed with 24 grams of hemp protein. We currently specialize in selling to middle to high ...

Open Road Incredible Edibles

Feel The HORSEPOWER!
START-UP Food Product Launch! Location: Franklin Park, IL, United States 30-year old co in Franklin Park is partnering with a local Media Maven and two Master Chefs to launch a new (line of) food products in the Energy Bar category!

Fooda - e-commerce B2B food and beverages mobile commerce

Fooda

Food tech platform connecting restaurants to people at work
Fooda is food technology platform that connects restaurants to people while at work. Companies and individuals join Fooda to get food brought right to their office everyday.

Foxtrot - e-commerce food and beverages wine and spirits same day delivery

Foxtrot

The Good Life. Delivered.
Foxtrot is a mobile app that lets you shop our curated collections of drinks (including craft beer, wine and spirits), eats and everyday essentials, then sit back as it’s delivered from our own brick-and-mortar locations to your door in under an hour. Unlike ...

Avé Gourmet - e-commerce retail food and beverages mobile commerce

Avé Gourmet

Digital Platform for Social Event Shopping
We help retailers showroom products in the real world at amazing events easier and cheaper than banner ads.

Morsel - food and beverages marketplaces communities restaurants

Morsel

Houzz for food and drink
Morsel is a social community for culinary enthusiasts. The content showcases the creative talents of influential chefs, brilliant up-and-comers of the culinary world and at-home cooks, alike. Using the iOS app or website, users create short stories, morsels, by ...

Suggesthat - mobile social media food and beverages film

Suggesthat

Reliable & relevant suggestions
Suggesthat is a mobile social recommendation application that provides the most reliable and relevant suggestions. Suggesthat lets you share reliable and relevant contents with your own social network. Users can also request suggestions from their friends by sending ...

Femme du Coupe - e-commerce consumer goods food and beverages wine and spirits

Femme du Coupe

Simple 3-Step Cocktails For The Home
Femme du Coupe, Chicago's leading experiential mixology company has spent the past two and half years working with home consumers teaching over 2000 guests simply how to make cocktails at home. Focusing on "Simple 3-Step Cocktails" Femme du Coupe will fully launch ...

KitchIn - mobile food and beverages groceries cooking

KitchIn

Your Mobile Digital Kitchen
Kitchin is your digital kitchen. Snap grocery receipts or scan your store loyalty card to create a digital inventory of all your groceries. Ready for mealtime? Kitchin will discover the best recipes to prepare using the ingredients in your digital kitchen!

The NoOodle Company - food and beverages specialty foods

The NoOodle Company

The no calorie, gluten free and no net carb noodle
The NoOodle Company manufactures, markets and distributes glucomannan-based food products to the mainstream western market. In contrast to traditional pasta, the NoOodle does not contain any calories, gluten, net carbohydrates or fat and is all natrual, posing ...

Upsize Chicago - financial services food and beverages small and medium businesses technology

Upsize Chicago

Upsize Chicago is an angel investment group
Upsize Chicago is an angel investment group comprised of successful, serial entrepreneurs based in Chicagoland who are looking to fund local companies. The organization will work with applicants through one-on-one coaching to develop business growth plans and raise ...

Freebie - food and beverages local virtual currency entertainment industry

Freebie

Remarkably Free Products & Experiences for being Social.
Freebie is a social influencer marketing platform that rewards anyone that is socially connected and willing to allow a post on their social media feeds with early access, products, and remarkable experiences for free.

Food Genius - food and beverages big data restaurants data mining

Food Genius

Feeding the foodservice Industry smarter data and analytics.
We're feeding the Foodservice Industry smarter data and analytics. Food Genius is a leading foodservice data provider specializing in gathering, preparing, and serving granular foodservice menu data and analytics. Food Genius supports foodservice manufacturers, ...

SpeedyEatz - food and beverages restaurants web development

SpeedyEatz

Online Ordering and Delivery Service
Websites with Online Ordering- We offer web development for restaurants. This service includes getting money faster than any of our competitors, gain useful data to keep customers coming back, and setup multiple delivery zones to manage your every day needs. ...

Nero - music food and beverages fashion high school students

Nero

High-end, collectible, limited apparel.
Nero. We're a high-end fashion brand providing quality products. Limited, individually numbered apparel. Custom packaging. Only 1,222 pieces per design will be made in 5 sizes. Out of the numbered, there are special "super-limited" numbers (1, 2, 5, 10, 12, 22, ...

Nip - food and beverages mobile commerce

Nip

Food delivery simplified for the hungry and the busy ones
Nip offers a curated selection of moderately-priced meals, from the best restaurants in your area, delivered in under 30 minutes

Black Box Cafe and Theatre - food and beverages coffee entertainment industry theatre

Black Box Cafe and Theatre

Art, coffee, and culture under one roof.
Black Box Cafe is a culmination of theatre, coffee, and an environment that promotes creativity. Up front it is all cafe with a full menu of drinks serving Metropolis Coffee that is roasted right here in Chicago. Behind the counter you will find a bakery kitchen ...

Dyner - food and beverages restaurants

Dyner

At-table mobile ordering solution for Restaurants
Dyner is blending the efficiency of at-table mobile ordering with the comfort of your personal smartphone, and we're delivering it to the tables of your favorite non-franchise restaurants. The app allows you to command your own pace: a chance to order, re-order, ...

Krucial Nutrition - food and beverages specialty retail wholesale distribution

Krucial Nutrition

All natural sport nutrition
We are launching a new sport nutrition company starting with a new All Natural Whey Protein Powder. Matching the top of the industry in nutrition ingredients in a better tasting 100% all-natural formula built to the strictest of Whole Foods natural specs. 5/13 ...

Peckish - e-commerce food and beverages health and wellness specialty foods

Peckish

Healthy Snacks Delivered to Your Desk
Peckish delivers healthy snacks straight to your desk every week. We take care of the nutrition needs of busy working professionals. Whether you’re looking for a high-protein, energy boosting, or satisfyingly sweet option, with Peckish, you can find curated ...

A Dinner Dash - food and beverages marketplaces services Food tech

A Dinner Dash

Making Dinner Easy
A Dinner Dash is an online service that connects families and foodies to local talented chefs and cooks. This service introduces them to a world of local chefs, cooks, bartenders that they never knew existed. A family subscribes to our service and then posts a ...

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