Foodman

What Foodman does

Foodman, doing business as Standard Commercial Systems, is a privately held, bootstrapped software company founded in 1986 and headquartered in Englewood, New Jersey. The company develops and sells do-it-yourself touchscreen point-of-sale software for restaurants and food-service operators under three core product lines: Server-Station for table-service restaurants, Home-Delivery for fast-food, pizza, take-out, and residential delivery, and Office-Delivery for corporate catering and high-volume lunch operations. Its technology is distinctive within the POS category: the entire codebase is written in COBOL, producing a 237-kilobyte executable (compared with 17-25 MB for competitors) that runs on Windows versions from 3.1 through Vista without requiring .NET, Java, or other runtime dependencies.

Foodman's business model is a one-time perpetual software license — $595 for a single-user license and $995 for an unlimited-station network license — with no subscription fees, no per-station charges, and free lifetime support and updates. The company sells exclusively direct-to-customer through its website (foodman123.com) using PayPal and FedEx COD, supplemented by phone sales and free evaluation downloads with guided walk-throughs. It targets SMB and mid-market restaurant operators across table-service, QSR/delivery, pizza, and corporate catering segments, with a long tail of small operators supplemented by occasional enterprise catering deployments (McDonald's, Viacom, Bear Stearns, Chase, Ameritech are referenced as users). The operating footprint is small (1-10 employees), with no disclosed funding, no API or integration ecosystem, no mobile applications, and no AI/ML capabilities.

Name

Foodman

Legal name

Standard Commercial Systems

Website

https://foodman123.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1986

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Foodman is a privately held, bootstrapped vendor of do-it-yourself touchscreen POS software for restaurants, founded in 1986 and selling three COBOL-based products (Server-Station, Home-Delivery, Office-Delivery) via perpetual one-time licenses directly to SMB food-service operators.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Englewood

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Software License Sales: Foodman generates revenue through one-time software license fees. Single-user license is $595.00 and multi-user (network) license is $995.00 with no per-station or per-user limitations. No ongoing subscription fees, no charges for support, and no charges for updates. Customers also have the option to split payments across multiple credit cards.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Foodman sells do-it-yourself touchscreen point-of-sale software for restaurants, pizzerias, fast-food, cafeterias, corporate caterers, and general retail operations. The company offers three core products—Server-Station for table-service, Home-Delivery for fast-food and delivery, and Office-Delivery for corporate catering—sold as perpetual software licenses ($595 single-user, $995 multi-user) without bundling hardware or charging ongoing subscription or support fees.

Product overview

Foodman is a do-it-yourself restaurant POS software company established in 1986 offering three distinct software products: Server-Station for table-service restaurants, Home-Delivery for residential delivery/fast-food/take-out operations, and Office-Delivery for corporate catering and high-volume lunch businesses. All three products share a unified self-explanatory design philosophy, support both touchscreen and keyboard input methods, offer free technical support, and are priced at $595.00 for single-user and $995.00 for multi-user (network) versions. The software is written in COBOL and runs on Windows platforms from 3.1 through Vista.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Server-Station Point-of-sale software for table-service restaurants, night clubs, country clubs, and hotels with table service. Supports touchscreen or keyboard input, house charges, discounts, gift certificates, separate and split checks, gratuities, server banking with self-cash-out, time-clock, scheduling, sales and cost analysis, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and multiple payment methods.
• Home-Delivery POS software for residential delivery, fast food, take-out, drive-thru, cafeterias, and general retail. Supports keyboard or touchscreen input, automatic customer capture on first call, UPC code scanning, automatic street look-up via street index for delivery area management, driver and delivery management, inventory tracking, and sales reporting.
• Office-Delivery POS software for corporate catering and high-volume lunch delivery businesses. Supports cash and charge accounts, multiple kitchen printers, minimum orders, delivery charges, accounts receivable, separate bill-to and deliver-to addresses, production reports, delivery management, and interface to QuickBooks for back-office accounting.

Quantifiable outcome

• Save up to $5,670 on a 3-station system compared to RestEz (comparison from July 2002)
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers16 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• RestEz: Restaurant POS vendor that sells bundled hardware/software packages; Foodman publishes a detailed price comparison showing nearly $6,000 in savings versus RestEz on a comparable three-station configuration. Closest head-to-head direct competitor in the on-premise, perpetual-license restaurant POS market.
• Clover (Fiserv): POS platform owned by Fiserv offering hardware bundles plus software apps for restaurants, retail, and service businesses. Targets the same SMB restaurant segment as Foodman with a fundamentally different hardware-included, app-subscription model.
• TouchBistro: iPad-based POS system for restaurants, cafes, and bars offering table management, ordering, and payments. Competes directly with Foodman's Server-Station for table-service restaurants but uses a modern touchscreen tablet paradigm rather than a Windows touchscreen PC.
• Oracle MICROS: Enterprise restaurant POS platform owned by Oracle serving global chains and hotel F&B operations. Competes with Foodman for larger restaurant deployments (Foodman explicitly mentions Micros as a competitor), though typically at higher price points and complexity.
• Aldelo: Restaurant POS software provider offering touchscreen-based POS for restaurants, pizzerias, and bars. Foodman benchmarks against Aldelo on menu items per screen (32 vs Foodman's 54) and ease of use, placing them as direct peers in the SMB restaurant POS market.
• Square (Block): Square for Restaurants provides cloud-based POS software and integrated payments targeting small and mid-market restaurants. A direct competitor in the SMB restaurant POS market with a fundamentally different (subscription + payment processing) model versus Foodman's one-time license DIY approach.
• Aloha by NCR Voyix: Long-established restaurant POS system used by enterprise and mid-market restaurants for table service, quick service, and bars. Foodman explicitly benchmarks its features (54 menu items per screen vs Aloha's 21) and price ($995 vs $13,000+) against Aloha, making it a head-to-head direct peer in the same product category.
• Point of Success: Restaurant POS software for table-service and quick-service restaurants. Mentioned by Foodman in its competitor comparison pages as a peer it benchmarks against, sharing the on-premise Windows-based software-only positioning.
• Lightspeed Restaurant: Cloud-based POS system for full-service restaurants, quick-service, and bars with inventory and analytics. Targets the same table-service and QSR segments as Foodman but with a SaaS, cloud-delivered model and integrated payments.
• Toast: Cloud-native restaurant POS platform serving SMB and enterprise restaurants with integrated payments, online ordering, and marketing. Directly competes with Foodman in the restaurant POS category but at the opposite end of the price/technology spectrum (bundled hardware + SaaS subscription versus software-only perpetual license).

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

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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