LEAPSET REBRANDS AS CAKE LABS their consumers”.
CAKE LABS( formerly known as Leapset Engineering), is one of the fastest growing technology companies in Sri Lanka and has turned into one of the major players in the country’ s tech sector within a short period of time. CAKE LABS is the engineering arm that develops‘ CAKE’: a technology platform for the global restaurant industry.
A key ingredient in their success has been their ability to combine Silicon Valley thinking and innovation with the engineering excellence that is available here in Colombo. It has granted the organization the ability to build high quality scalable products and get them to market, fast.
As Managing Director of CAKE LABS and Senior Vice President Engineering, Shanil Fernando puts it:“ Rebranding Leapset Engineering to CAKE LABS was an important step for us. It allows us to be a Silicon Valley style company in Sri Lanka and develop a closer connection with the product that we build. In our engineering efforts, we implement the same leading edge technologies that companies like Facebook, Apple and Google use, and we build truly disruptive solutions for the restaurant industry.”
The CAKE platform looks at all the ways that customers and restaurants interact and improves those interactions with technology. It does so with an ever expanding and evolving portfolio of products including CAKE. net which allows users to find restaurants and order from them online, CAKE Guest Manager: a comprehensive table reservation and waitlist management product, and its flagship product – CAKE POS.
This platform is disrupting the traditional way the restaurant industry operates by making enterprise grade technology accessible to even small or medium scale restaurants through its technology as a service model. The organization has seen record growth in the first quarter of 2016, and is now processing a tremendous volume of transactions annually.
A fulcrum in this process is CAKE’ s parent company Sysco( NYSE: SYY)- the world’ s largest food services company. By leveraging Sysco’ s extensive network of Marketing Associates, CAKE is able to access the hundreds of thousands of restaurants that Sysco serves across the US and internationally and provide them with the CAKE platform.
CEO Mani Kulasooriya says,“ Technology has the power to change lives and disrupt industries. In order to achieve this we look at the touch points in the merchant-customer relationship. How do you find a restaurant and make a reservation? What makes you come back to the same restaurant again? Our vision is to make this process easier for both restaurants and
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