Clean solutions for complex problems

Sunday’s success, says Jacoutot, lies in the combination of the real-world restaurant experience of its founders and the company’s focus on technology. 

“I like to say that Sunday lies somewhere between food tech and FinTech,” he explains. “We are a payment company, but we’re also trying to solve lots of complex problems in the restaurant. We provide the quickest, smoothest checkout experience for restaurateurs and customers, but that requires a lot of hard work under the surface. Fifty-five percent of our employees work on either the product or on the technology.”

Sunday’s platform minimizes friction for restaurants by integrating with their existing point of sales (POS) systems, harmonizing multiple data streams, providing real-time payments updates and automating reports. For customers, Sunday provides a method of paying that can be used by anyone with a smartphone, personalized to their particular table and with the option to tip servers simplified to the press of a button. 

With Google Cloud as its technology infrastructure, Sunday built a platform that could handle the scale and speed required for a proof of concept (POC) in its first six months. As the company moved towards production, however, it became clear that while the POC setup worked, it could still be improved upon. Sunday turned to DoiT to help optimize its infrastructure for growth and flexibility.

“We’re a lean startup with limited resources, so we needed to simplify our technology platform as much as possible,” says Jacoutot. “We didn’t just want technical expertise, however. We also wanted a strategic partner that could solve our current problems but also help us plan for the future. For us, that partner was DoiT.”