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▲ 0 r/FoodService

i'm working on a discovery service for restaurant employees to trade their employee meal with someone at a different place.

I’m building a free app called Grubflip that helps restaurant employees discover nearby workers who are interested in trading employee meals.

The idea is simple: you set up the meal you typically receive at work, browse nearby meals, and connect with someone at another restaurant. You can chat, arrange the exchange, and add extras if the meals aren’t exactly equal.

It’s designed for employees—not restaurant owners—and doesn’t require restaurants to manage anything. I’m curious whether people already do this informally and whether a service like this would actually be useful.

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u/payfrit — 1 month ago
▲ 2 r/SideProject

I’m building Grubflip — a marketplace for trading employee meals

I’m working on Grubflip, an app for restaurant employees to trade their employee meals with other restaurant workers nearby.

The basic idea is simple: if you work at a restaurant and have an employee meal available, you can offer it to someone nearby and trade for the meal they’re able to provide at their workplace.

The current flow is:

  • Register and create your typical employee meal
  • Browse nearby meals
  • Propose a trade
  • Chat with the other person
  • Choose who is responsible for the delivery
  • Add optional “equalizers” if one meal is worth more than the other

Those equalizers might be extra sauces, sides, desserts, drinks, or other add-ons that help make the trade feel fair.

I got the idea from thinking about how restaurant employees already have access to food, but usually only from their own workplace. There’s a huge variety of meals being prepared all around them, and many restaurant workers are already close enough to exchange food.

Grubflip is currently in development, and I’m looking for feedback from restaurant workers, people in the food industry, and anyone who thinks the concept is interesting.

Would you use something like this? What would make you trust the person you’re trading with?

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u/payfrit — 1 month ago
▲ 4 r/recoverywithoutAA+1 crossposts

anyone here in AA or a 12-step group?

I built a free recovery app as part of my own program: Step Squad.

It’s for small, private groups of people in recovery—your actual program friends, not a public social network. You can read a fresh new daily reflection, share gratitude lists, chat, send support signals, track sobriety, and use tools like find a meeting and court-card check-ins.

There’s no cost, no ads, no selling user data, and no data-sharing scheme hiding underneath it. I built it as part of my own personal recovery program and because I wanted a better way for a small group of people to stay connected between meetings.

It’s live on iPhone and in closed testing for Android. I’d genuinely love feedback from people in recovery and anyone who has built something personal and mission-driven.

u/payfrit — 1 month ago
▲ 0 r/SantaMonica

Payfrit app is launching in Santa Monica today

Hi, I’m John Mizerek, the founder of Payfrit, and I live here in Santa Monica.

We’ve completed work on the Payfrit app, and it’s launching today.

Payfrit is a restaurant service and ordering platform that makes dining easier for both guests and restaurants. Dine-in guests use their phones to request service, order additional items, pay their check, and communicate with the restaurant whenever they need something—without requiring a server to constantly interrupt their meal.

Payfrit also eliminates the hassle of splitting checks. Every guest has their own separate check by default, with options to combine checks or start a shared tab at any time. The same app also supports takeaway and delivery, so you can use Payfrit when you’re at home—or bedrotting.

For restaurants, Payfrit improves table service without replacing the personal side of hospitality. It helps restaurants handle service requests more efficiently, increases add-on beverage and dessert orders, eliminates the silly check-payment dance at the end of a meal, and gives staff an instant, clear view of what needs attention.

The basic idea is simple: service should happen on the guest’s schedule—not when a server happens to walk by or interrupts your meal to “check on you” and see whether you want to order something else.

We’re looking for Santa Monica restaurants interested in learning more, running a pilot, or giving feedback. If you own or work at a local restaurant, please comment or send me a message!

We’re also interested in hearing from Santa Monica diners: what parts of restaurant service do you think technology could make easier without making the experience feel less human?

Download Payfrit:

iPhone / iOS
Android

u/payfrit — 1 month ago