Thanks to the new cash Choice QR plans to enter all the markets that French restaurant payment app Sunday recently pulled out of
- Founder by Ukrainians restaurant payment app Choice QR has raised €1.5m in a seed round led by Czech VC Presto Ventures with participation from Seedcamp.
- Choice QR was launched in 2021 and offers a platform connecting hospitality businesses with their customers. Restaurants can register in the startup’s system and create an online menu for free, for example, and then the company reaches out to offer them a paid subscription to additional services.
- The company’s idea is to become a one-stop-shop for the communication between restaurants and their guests, through QR payments, web pages, table reservations, table ordering and websites for takeaway and delivery.
- The team plans to use the funding for European expansion, including into the markets that Sunday has announced it will leave: Spain, Italy and Portugal. It plans to connect 50k restaurants to its app within the next three years.
- The company operates in the Czech Republic and Poland and has clients all over the world, including in the US, Hungary and Germany.
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