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We built this
because we were
hungry.
Not just for food — hungry to fix a broken system that was squeezing local restaurants dry while delivering a mediocre experience to customers. We knew there was a better way.
How it started
A bowl of ramen
and a big idea.
In 2021, Alex Chen and Priya Sharma were sitting in a tiny San Francisco apartment, frustrated. They'd just paid a 30% delivery fee on a $12 bowl of ramen from a restaurant they loved — and found out the restaurant owner was barely breaking even on the order.
That felt wrong. The restaurant did all the work. The food was incredible. But the platform was taking the lion's share and giving almost nothing back — no data, no customer relationships, no control.
So they built Take a Bite. Not to be another delivery app, but to be the delivery app that actually gives a damn about the food and the people making it.
"We don't want to be the biggest food app. We want to be the one people actually love — and the one restaurants actually trust."
Alex Chen, Co-founder & CEO
What we stand for
Our values.
Food first, always
We built this for people who genuinely love food — not just convenience. Every decision we make starts with the question: does this make the food experience better?
Speed without sacrifice
Fast delivery shouldn't mean cold food or sloppy packaging. We work obsessively with our restaurant partners to make sure every order arrives the way it was meant to.
Community over everything
Local restaurants are the heartbeat of every city. We exist to help them thrive — not to replace them with ghost kitchens or squeeze their margins to zero.
Built for every table
Whether you're ordering solo at midnight or feeding a team of 20, Take a Bite works for you. We celebrate every cuisine, every budget, every craving.
The journey
How we got here.
Founded in a San Francisco apartment over a very good bowl of ramen.
Launched in 3 cities with 40 restaurant partners and 10,000 early users.
Raised Series A. Expanded to 20 cities. Hit 100,000 monthly active users.
Crossed 500,000 users. Launched the restaurant partner dashboard.
1 million users. 2,400+ restaurant partners. 50 cities and counting.
Still hungry. Still building. The best version of Take a Bite hasn't been made yet.
The people
Meet the team.
Alex Chen
Co-founder & CEO
Former Yelp product lead. Grew up in his family's restaurant in San Francisco and never stopped thinking about how to make food more accessible.
Priya Sharma
Co-founder & CTO
Ex-Uber Eats engineering. Built the logistics engine that powers real-time order tracking for over a million daily deliveries.
Marcus Jones
Chief Operating Officer
Scaled operations at DoorDash from 10 to 200 cities. Obsessed with the last mile and making sure every handoff is seamless.
Sofia Reyes
Head of Design
Previously at Airbnb. Believes great design is invisible — you just feel it when the app gets out of your way and lets you focus on the food.
Hungry to join us?
Whether you want to order, partner your restaurant, or join the team — there's a seat at the table for you.