can’t eat megabytes of data or go out to eat online, and it’s hard to offshore, outsource or automate restaurant work. Amazon’s rise means traditional ground floor retail is being replaced by restaurants with increased frequency. Data to back this up shows 10% of employable people in the US work in the industry. Restaurants now account for 50% of every food dollar spent. 2015 will be the first year restaurant spending exceeds grocery spending.

We’ve built a 2-sided, mobile marketplace where restaurants can directly access, search, and recruit candidates. Candidates can create professional profiles, view jobs, assess quality of employers, interact with hirers, and apply for positions or be recruited by our restaurants through the platform.

Successful restaurant employment and hiring prioritizes personality and soft skill before experience and technical ability. We inverted the traditional resume to create candidate profiles focusing on personality, interest, and preferred work environment followed by work experience and education. Restaurants in turn answer what is compelling about working for them before adding key information about position, location, etc.

We’ve then built an intuitive system to power automated matching of candidates and employers. Clothbound users can tell the app exactly what they are looking for in their next job/employee, instantly view the results, take their desired action, and save the search to receive automatic updates as new matches become available. For restaurants, Clothbound reduces the time and cost to hire, and leads to better job fit and reduced turnover. For candidates, Clothbound provides a simple, yet powerful tool for finding the right restaurant job and getting hired.