With the goal of building communities around institutional dining, we are developing a platform that allows institutions to provide information (open times, daily menus, amount of meals left on student card, etc.) to diners as well as also allowing diners to easily leave feedback, order delivery, or order in advance at nearby food courts for pickup. The diner facing side of our platform operates across web, mobile, chatbot, and physical channels. On Institution side of things we are allowing institutions to monitor how well their food service providers are serving the community, source interesting food related events, and order catering from nearby restaurants or their food service provider. For food service providers we will connect them to local restaurants to host cooking workshops for staff and diners, provide easy to access hub of dining related innovations for to test at their dining halls ranging from new plant based proteins to fast acting composting machines, and give them access to processed data and feedback from diners to help them best serve the communities they are feeding up to 20 meals a week.
Expect 40 to 160 hours a month working on the below items as well as general UX improvements and other additions based on research conducted by you or a member of our team. Additionally you are free to shadow me to any meetings and I will be setting up meetings specifically for learning about similar apps and integrating software into our application from praters such as (still in talks with food delivery companies but interest has been shows for exclusive contacts already by a few) and attend any pitching competitions to support and network.
Re-developing our back end which is current done in a patchwork of php and MySQL frameworks,
Integrating chatbots and mobile apps through a JSON API,
Developing an improved front-end experience for dining hall staff and diners on our web app,
Developing proper natural language processing capabilities to improve the value of the data we offer which includes have a strong swear word filter,
Developing mobile apps and chatbots.
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IT / Information Technology - Industry:
Retail / eCommerce