eitje
“Can a Dutch horeca-only workforce platform become the operating system every restaurant manager runs their team on?”
Founded2015
HQAmsterdam, Netherlands
FoundersJoris Rood
IndustryVertical SaaS / Hospitality
The story
eitje is a Dutch vertical SaaS for hospitality (horeca), founded ~2015 in Amsterdam by Joris Rood. It began as a simple scheduling tool for restaurant managers and has broadened into a workforce-management suite covering rosters, time tracking, a clock-in system (kloksysteem), hour balances, internal communication, onboarding and financial exports. The product is positioned narrowly around horeca sub-verticals — restaurants, hotels, shops, beach clubs, sport & recreation, campsites, bakeries and ice-cream parlours — with free integrations to payroll and HR systems rather than an embedded-finance play of its own.
Last 12 months
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Product timeline
2015
Founder Joris Rood leaves hospitality work to start eitje, aiming to make managing hospitality teams easier.· pivot
2018
Public goal set of reaching 1,000 hospitality venues; product matures into full team-management platform (scheduling, hours, communication, onboarding).· product
The stack
0 layers disclosed in eitje’s embedded-finance stack
Accounting gap: none