TL;DR: Forge makes premium, white-labeled loyalty apps for leading restaurant brand – think a Starbucks app for your own restaurant.

Hey everyone! We’re Ethan and Isaac, and we’re building Forge. Our journey started as roommates at Stanford where we worked on ad-branded contraceptives, AI-generated Spotify playlists, and exploring new restaurants in Palo Alto. Today, we’re on a mission to enhance customer relationships through restaurant loyalty, and have 300+ partners including Chubby Group, Liuyishou Hotpot, and Daeho Dining.

The Problem

In high school, Ethan saw firsthand, while helping manage a 3 location Korean corndog shop, that local mom-and-pop restaurants struggle with building digital presence and customer retention; since they fail to acquire and retain repeat customers; while losing 30% to third-party delivery apps and big corporations.

On the other hand, publicly-trading mega-corporations like Starbucks and Domino’s are well equipped with teams of in-house engineers that spend $MM’s every year to control their customer’s dining journey with their technology.

Our Solution: Forge, the Starbucks app for your brand.

Forge brings this sophisticated technology to any restaurant brand, white-labeled at a very low-cost. We want to level the playing field for any restaurant to compete with these conglomerates, so we make premium loyalty apps that include Amex-like status, tiers, points, membership subscriptions, in-app orders, and a whole suite of AI-powered marketing tools.

This has already resulted in stronger customer relationships, new revenue, recurring revenue streams, and increases in both average customer spend and visit frequencies with over $60M in new revenue redirected to our partners, 3x increased visits, and over 500,000 active users across our apps!

Our Asks
If you want to join the Forge family or know any restaurant brands or places you’d like to see us help out with loyalty, email us at founders@forgerewards.com!

Ethan and Isaac (at HE&C Wagyu Garden)