Fooda News
For Our Valued Restaurant Partners: Designing Fooda for Restaurants
Fooda is on a mission to connect people with great food at work. Our network of 2,000+ restaurant partners is fundamental to that goal. In the past, we’ve designed and developed our own internal POS
Fooda Ranked on Entrepreneur’s 2018 Top Company Culture List
Fooda made Entrepreneur’s Top Company Culture list, ranked one of the top 3 Chicago-based companies. A strong culture takes more than just a cool office with delicious food and nice coworkers (although, we do have
Consumer Tipping Point: Initial Building Blocks
This post comes from Eric Ward, a Business Intelligence Analyst for Fooda’s Data Science and Analytics team. He came into the newly-created role to kick off the effort of building out the enterprise reporting environment
Expressive Tests as Documentation (Using RSpec and FactoryBot)
This post was written by Mikee Pourhadi, a Software Engineer at Fooda. Mikee has a lot of strong opinions about testing, and his instincts are right about 15% of the time. He loves food. Fooda
Fooda ranked 8th Fastest-Growing Company in Chicago
Even though it’s Fooda’s second time making the Fast 50 list, we didn’t become the leading provider of freshly-served restaurant food at work overnight. The idea behind Fooda all started a decade ago, when workers
I called an ethernet port “the internet hole” at my first job – now I’m a Product Manager
Kristine Alipio is a Product Manager at Fooda. She dove headfirst into the startup life after graduating from the University of Iowa. You can find her by listening for her laugh, or sneaking a bite
Improving Dependency Injection with View Controllers
Improving Dependency Injection with View Controllers We recently rewrote Fooda’s iOS consumer application from the ground up. Our goals with the rewrite were to increase app stability, testability and team velocity. These goals, along with
Ship and Scale – The Empowering Fooda Tech Stack
Throughout my tenure at Fooda, we have built a rich and dynamic technology team. We’re about 30 people right now and, among other interesting things about our team, we do not have a dedicated DevOps
Austin, we’re here!
Fooda is excited to pop up in Austin, our 14th city in the U.S. and our 3rd in Texas (more Fooda locations than any other state). Austin + Fooda is a perfect pair. You’re a
Blocks in Ruby (Things I Wish I Had Understood Sooner)
Ruby blocks are tricky, but they’re powerful and worth understanding. If you’re teaching yourself, you’re bound to run into a roadblock. Just talk yourself through it… Imagine yourself arriving at an uncomfortable realization: You love
Fooda Rolls into Detroit
Fooda is now in Detroit and its suburbs! It’s 11:30am, you’re sitting at your desk dreaming of samosas, or the perfect pulled pork sandwich. But you’re in a tough spot, because Bombay Wraps and Detroit
Fooda is now Phoenician
Fooda launched in Phoenix! Get excited, because local restaurants like It’s All Greek To Me, Hog Wild Pit BBQ, and Happy Bowls are starting to popup in spaces near you. This is great news, because
Fooda Launches in the Nation’s Capitol!
Fooda launched in DC last week! Get excited, because local favorite restaurants like Seoul Spice, People’s Bao, and The Spice Route are popping up in workspaces near you. We partner with authentic restaurants that offer
Software Engineering Intern Trey Herman Reflects on his Summer Internship with Fooda
Trey Herman was Fooda’s Software Engineering Intern during Summer 2017. In this post, Trey describes his experience as a Fooda intern. My summer working at Fooda has been an incredible experience that has challenged me
Employee Profile: Brenda Dean, A Self-Starting Business Development Manager
Brenda, how did you end up as a Business Development Manger at Fooda? I was in restaurant marketing, but I was working more on the restaurant side. I decided I wanted to work with corporations,
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