# Chowbus

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/chowbus/  
**Website:** https://www.chowbus.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Chowbus is a Chicago-headquartered restaurant technology company founded in 2016 by Linxin Wen and Suyu Zhang. It began as an online food ordering, payment and delivery marketplace for Asian restaurants and has since pivoted to a cloud-based, AI-assisted restaurant operating platform: point of sale, self-ordering kiosks, handheld and tablet ordering, kitchen display systems, waitlist and reservations, online ordering, branded restaurant websites and mobile apps, loyalty, gift cards, SMS marketing, a promotions engine, multi-location management, and an AI suite covering digital ads, social media, creative assets and review insights. Chowbus states it serves 9,000+ restaurants across all 50 U.S. states and Canada with 24/7 bilingual (EN/ZH/ES) support, and raised an $81M growth round in March 2026 led by Prysm Capital and Left Lane Capital. Its POS advertises two-way third-party delivery integration with 45+ marketplaces (DoorDash, Uber Eats, Grubhub and others), and partner-side aggregators such as Deliverect publish Chowbus POS connectors — but as of August 2026 Chowbus publishes no public developer portal, API reference, OpenAPI/AsyncAPI contract, SDK, or sandbox. Its only machine-readable public agent surface is a hand-authored bilingual llms.txt at chowbus.com/llms.txt; a JSON API host (pos-api.chowbus.com) is live and returns a structured error envelope but is undocumented and gated.

## Kin Score — 10.9 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 10.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 2.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 34.2 |
| Access Clarity | 34.2 |

Regulatory layer — **Payments**: 15.6 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Security (1)

- **Chowbus Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Restaurant, Point-of-Sale, Restaurant Technology, Food and Beverage, Online Ordering, Payments, Loyalty, Hospitality, Software-as-a-Service, Artificial Intelligence, United States

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/chowbus/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.