Software for the restaurant industry.
We build practical software for restaurants — tools that fit how a real shift actually runs, not how a slide deck says it should.
Two products, both in daily use.
Each one started from the same place — watching how a real store actually runs a shift, then building the smallest tool that fixes the friction.
Fruitstand
A waitlist kiosk and staff dashboard for host stands — customers add themselves to the list and get a text the moment their table is ready.
Fruitcrew
Staff scheduling for hourly teams — availability, time-off requests, shift swaps, and schedule publishing in one place.
What's next
We build one product at a time, well. The next one starts the same way the first two did — from a real problem on a real shift.
A small studio, built to ship things people actually use.
Vortyx is a software holding company for the restaurant industry. We don't build one big platform and sell every store on the whole thing — we build small, focused tools, each aimed at one real point of friction in a shift, and we keep them simple enough that a busy manager can actually use them without training.
Every product on this page is in daily use at real stores today. We'd rather ship two things well than five things half-finished.
- Focus
- Restaurant & hospitality operations
- Approach
- One focused tool per problem
- Status
- Two products live, one in the works
What that looks like day to day.
Built from the floor up
We start from how a shift actually runs, not from a feature list — then build the smallest thing that fixes it.
Fast, no-nonsense
No lengthy onboarding calls or bloated settings pages. A manager should be productive in minutes, not weeks.
Support that answers
Email us and a person who actually built the product replies — not a ticket queue.
Want to talk?
Questions, feedback, or a problem you think we should build for — we read every email.