What OysterLink does

OysterLink is a privately held Florida LLC (registered office in Sunny Isles Beach) that operates a U.S.-focused, hospitality-vertical online job marketplace connecting restaurants, hotels, and hospitality venues with job seekers across front-of-house, back-of-house, hotel operations, and management roles. The platform reports 400,000+ active monthly users, 100,000+ live job listings, and coverage spanning 707 U.S. cities across all 50 states, with 500+ employer company profiles in its directory including enterprise hospitality brands such as Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt, McDonald's, Starbucks, Chipotle, Aramark, Sodexo, and Compass Group.

The product surface combines a self-serve job seeker experience (free registration, resume builder, profile management, role- and city-indexed job search with filters for employment type, schedule, experience, salary, and onsite/remote) with a paid employer hiring service (subscription packages starting at $350/month, additional per-posting creation/renewal fees, 30-day active posting lifecycle, employer brand pages, talent profile access). The platform is architected around an SEO-driven sitemap of hundreds of role-specific and city-specific landing pages (e.g., /jobs/waitress/rochester-ny/) that capture long-tail organic search demand. Surrounding the marketplace, OysterLink operates a content and analytics layer — career resources, salary trends, labor-law reference, a celebrity interview podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and 60+ proprietary hospitality labor-market analyses published in 2025-2026 via PRNewswire and trade outlets.

Monetization is employer-side via subscriptions (from $350/month) plus transactional per-posting fees and promotional add-ons, while job seekers access the platform free of charge. The company employs 11-50 people, has not disclosed funding, revenue, ownership, or named founders beyond a referenced industry expert (Milos Eric), and explicitly restricts its website and services to U.S. visitors 18+ per its Terms of Service.

Name

OysterLink

Legal name

OysterLink LLC

Website

https://oysterlink.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

OysterLink is a U.S.-focused online job marketplace that connects hospitality job seekers with restaurants, hotels, and hospitality employers, reporting 400,000+ monthly active users and 100,000+ jobs across 707 cities, monetizing via employer subscriptions starting at $350/month.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Miami

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Employer subscription packages: Recurring subscription plans for employers to hire and promote their brand on OysterLink, advertised starting from $350/month, including job posting creation and renewal features.
2. Per job posting fees: Fee charged for creation and renewal of each job posting, presented as Additional Terms in the employer signup flow. Each posting remains active for 30 calendar days; fees are non-refundable once received by the Service Provider.
3. Promotional and value-added services: Add-ons enabling employers to promote brands and target candidates via featured listings, spotlight pages, and reports/guides on the platform, supporting land-and-expand upsell on top of base subscriptions.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

OysterLink operates a two-sided online job marketplace focused exclusively on the U.S. restaurant and hospitality industry. Hospitality job seekers can register for free, build resumes, and search or apply to over 100,000 jobs across 707 U.S. cities, while employers post openings and promote their brand via paid subscription packages starting at $350/month. The platform is augmented by role- and location-indexed landing pages, employer brand pages, and proprietary hospitality labor-market reports.

Product overview

OysterLink is a single integrated job platform for the restaurant and hospitality industry, anchored by the OysterLink Job Platform as its core product and layered with several content and discovery modules. The core platform is supported by the Companies Hiring Directory (employer profiles), Talent Profiles (candidate profiles), and Browse by Role / Browse by Location navigation. Around this core, OysterLink offers Career Resources, Free Tools & Resources, Labor Laws reference, and a Hospitality Trends / Spotlight editorial hub featuring celebrity interviews, career advice, and reports. The platform monetizes through a paid Employer Hiring Service (starting from $350/month) where employers post job listings, access applicants, and promote their brand.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• OysterLink Celebrity Interviews: A celebrity interview podcast featuring top chefs and hospitality professionals, distributed on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Products and services

• OysterLink Job Platform Web-based job marketplace connecting U.S. hospitality job seekers (servers, bartenders, cooks, housekeepers, hotel staff, management) with restaurants, hotels, and hospitality venues. Free for job seekers to register, build resumes, and apply; supports search by role, location, employment type, work schedule, experience level, salary, and onsite/remote.
• Employer Hiring Service Paid subscription offering for hospitality employers to post job listings, access applicants, build branded company profile pages, and promote their brand on OysterLink. Subscription packages start at $350/month, each job posting remains active for 30 calendar days, and additional creation/renewal fees apply per the platform's Additional Terms.
• Celebrity Interviews Podcast Original podcast featuring interviews with top chefs and hospitality professionals, used as a community-building and brand-engagement channel for hospitality workers and employers.

Quantifiable outcome

• 400,000+ active monthly users on the platform
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers36 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Scale indicators11 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• ZipRecruiter: ZipRecruiter is a large U.S. job marketplace with a substantial hospitality and hourly-worker segment. It overlaps with OysterLink on SMB employer subscriptions and entry-level candidate acquisition.
• Indeed: Indeed is the largest horizontal job marketplace in the U.S., capturing meaningful share of hospitality postings alongside every other industry. It competes head-to-head with OysterLink for employer recruitment budgets and hospitality candidate search traffic.
• LinkedIn: LinkedIn is the dominant professional network and recruiting platform, including for hospitality management and corporate hotel/restaurant roles. It competes with OysterLink for mid-market and enterprise employer spend and for professional hospitality candidates.

Direct peers

• Culinary Agents: Culinary Agents is a U.S.-focused job marketplace dedicated exclusively to hospitality, restaurant, and culinary professionals. It directly overlaps with OysterLink's vertical positioning, target candidate base (chefs, servers, hospitality staff), and employer-side subscription model.
• Poached Jobs: Poached is a hospitality-only job marketplace with a strong focus on restaurant and bar professionals, including back-of-house and front-of-house roles. It targets the same job seeker and employer segments as OysterLink with a comparable regional-to-national coverage model.
• Hcareers: Hcareers is a longstanding U.S. job board specialized in hotel, resort, restaurant, and spa hospitality hiring. It is directly comparable to OysterLink's hotel/restaurant verticals, with overlapping employer base and candidate pool.
• Snagajob: Snagajob is a U.S. marketplace focused specifically on hourly and shift-based work, with a heavy concentration in hospitality, food service, and retail. Its hourly-worker candidate base and employer subscription model directly overlap with OysterLink's entry-level hospitality focus.
• JobsInRestaurants.com: JobsInRestaurants is a U.S. job board dedicated to restaurant industry careers. It directly competes with OysterLink for restaurant employer subscriptions and culinary/service candidate traffic.

Emerging players

• Seasoned.co: Seasoned is a hospitality-focused job platform emphasizing restaurant industry hiring, particularly back-of-house roles. It is a smaller, more niche competitor overlapping OysterLink's back-of-house and restaurant segments.

Others

• BlueSky Hospitality Solutions: BlueSky Hospitality Solutions is a staffing and recruitment services firm serving hotels and restaurants. While not a marketplace itself, it competes indirectly for hospitality hiring budgets and overlaps with OysterLink on the employer side.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UC6cfXS9BHtz7zmCLxit44Og
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/oysterlink
• Instagraminstagram.com/oysterlink

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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