Digital cafeteria platform for corporate dining and campus food operations
SmartQ operates a B2B food-tech platform serving corporate offices, tech parks, and universities across India with a digital ordering and management suite. The tech stack is .NET/C#–heavy on the desktop side (WPF, Windows Forms, Xamarin) paired with Python backends (Django, Flask) and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure), suggesting a legacy Windows-centric enterprise app being modernized toward cloud APIs. Active hiring skews operations-heavy (45 ops vs. 21 engineering), and pain-point data surface low app adoption and operational friction—indicating the company is scaling manually-managed logistics faster than automation.
Notable leadership hires: Business Head, Head HSEQ
SmartQ is a food-tech platform backed by Compass Group, delivering end-to-end digital cafeteria solutions to corporate and campus dining operations. The product suite spans ordering (mobile and web), kitchen management, vendor coordination, and compliance tracking. The company aggregates food partners—from local vendors to premium caterers—and operates across corporate cafeterias, tech parks, universities, and event venues including music festivals and motorsports events. With 501–1,000 employees based in Bangalore, SmartQ is scaling operational footprint faster than engineering velocity, pointing to rapid venue/vendor onboarding outpacing platform automation.
SmartQ uses .NET, C#, WPF, and Windows Forms for desktop applications, Django and Flask for Python backends, and AWS, GCP, and Azure for cloud infrastructure. Testing and CI/CD tooling includes Selenium, pytest, Jenkins, Docker, and GitHub Actions.
Active projects include SmartQ ordering app adoption, REST API scalability, third-party integrations, vendor onboarding and compliance tracking, menu coordination, AI prompt engineering, and hygiene/compliance checklists for food safety.
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