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Arive
About Arive

We build the tools restaurants deserve.

Arive is an augmented-reality menu and cross-restaurant loyalty network. Restaurants publish photoreal 3D dishes diners can place on their own table before they order — raising average order value, cutting return-time-of-food complaints, and turning loyalty into a shared currency that works at every Arive partner.

Our mission

Independent restaurants are the heart of every neighbourhood, and they've been handed the worst technology in the consumer stack. Brittle POS systems, predatory delivery apps, and PDF menus that no diner ever finished reading. We're building the opposite — tools that are fast, beautiful, owned by the operator, and priced for the corner café as much as the seven-location group.

AR is the wedge. Once a diner has placed a 3D dish on their table, they order with confidence, the kitchen ships less waste, and the venue earns trust that translates into return visits. Once a venue is on Arive, joining the cross-restaurant loyalty network is one toggle — and that's how a corner café in Brooklyn ends up sharing customers with a ramen counter in San Francisco.

We are a small team based in San Francisco, CA, founded in 2025, and we plan to stay small and fast for as long as possible.

Values

What we believe.

Four principles we won't trade away.

Restaurants first

Every product decision answers one question: does this make the operator's day better?

Bias to ship

A working pilot in a real kitchen beats six months of stakeholder slides.

Performance is a feature

If it isn't fast on a five-year-old phone on bad Wi-Fi, it isn't done.

Privacy is non-negotiable

No ad networks. No data brokers. Diner data exists to make their next meal better — that's it.

Timeline

Where we've been, where we're going.

  1. 2024 Q4
    First scan.

    A founder photogrammetry rig in a tiny kitchen. Twenty dishes, two phones, one believer.

  2. 2025 Q1
    First paying restaurant.

    A neighbourhood sushi house. AOV up 28% in the first 90 days. We had a product.

  3. 2025 Q3
    Loyalty network.

    Cross-restaurant points went live with seven venues. Settled the first cross-redemption in 13 minutes.

  4. 2026 Q1
    Platform open.

    Public API, white-label SDK, and the first franchise group on the admin dashboard.

  5. 2026
    What's next.

    Native POS integrations, in-table tipping, and the Arive Connect kitchen display for expo screens.

Ready to make your menu come alive?

Seven days from contract to a live AR menu. Pilot pricing for the first 50 venues. Zero up-front cost on the Loyalty Partner plan.

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