Mark Calabro Co-Founder of HungryHungry & Ordermate

Talking Business with Alan Kohler

Sharing food has always been central to Mark Calabro’s life. Growing up in a large Italian family, Mark had a childhood of witnessing the bonding magic of food – where sharing was caring – and it gave the marketing, sales and client relationship head an appreciation for the role of good food in bringing people together. And although Mark never pursued a career in the kitchen, he has certainly entered many in the course of selling the hospitality technology he has developed over the past two decades.

Co-founder of hospitality platform HungryHungry and point-of-sale (POS) technology OrderMate, Mark started thinking about and developing food and beverage payment systems while completing a five-year Bachelor of Telecommunications Engineering and Applied Science, Multimedia double degree at Swinburne University of Technology.

In 2003, he and his co-founder, Shannon Hautot, outgrew the Melbourne garage they started in and launched OrderMate, a revolutionary POS system for an industry better acquainted with buying a cash register out of a box. After more than 15 years of demonstrating value to eateries, OrderMate has a database of 2,500 clients thanks to Mark’s hard work, perseverance and skills in building client relationships.

Together, Mark and Shannon have invested $2 million in seed funding for HungryHungry. With close to two decades servicing the hospitality industry, combined with their experience in building a technology business from the ground up, Mark and Shannon are in the right place to position HungryHungry as a technology platform that will support merchants and chefs while providing customers with a better dining experience.

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