A live deployment at New York City workplace dining venues is the first proof point of a formal partnership between Socket Mobile (NASDAQ: SCKT) and Orda, pairing Orda's enterprise mobile ordering platform with Socket Mobile's S320 Contactless Barcode Scanner to create a self-checkout workflow aimed squarely at high-volume corporate foodservice.
The integrated solution is already operating through Great Performances, a corporate dining and hospitality provider whose clients include Silverstein Properties and the Rockefeller Foundation. Guests browse menus, place orders, and scan items at checkout using the S320 — selected for its compact footprint, reliable scan performance, and straightforward API integration with Orda Express, the platform's self-checkout product.
The Operator Problem It Solves
The switch from a previous, more complex self-checkout setup to Orda Express was driven by guest friction. Brandon Reichert, Director of Transformation and Technology at Great Performances, said the prior system was "complicated to set up and frustrating for the guests." The new configuration lets operators customize the interface to individual client requirements, which matters in a corporate hospitality environment where the dining program is often an amenity tied to employer brand.
For foodservice operators specifying technology for prep-and-storage and front-of-house automation, the architecture here is notably lean: Orda handles the ordering and payment logic (integrating with Square, DoorDash, Fiserv, and First Data, among others), while the S320 scanner handles the physical barcode read at checkout. That clean division of labor reduces integration complexity across multi-location rollouts.
Scalability Across Venue Types
Both companies position the stack as repeatable beyond office towers. Target environments include healthcare facilities, universities, stadiums, and airports — essentially any high-throughput, non-traditional foodservice setting where full POS infrastructure is impractical or where labor constraints make self-service attractive. Orda counts more than 10,000 Square-based businesses on its platform, giving the partnership an established distribution base from which to source new enterprise dining clients.
Hilary Barr, COO at Orda, framed the commercial opportunity around the broader shift in corporate catering: "Whether operators are managing corporate lunch catering, office catering, or company lunch programs, they need technology that makes the experience faster and easier for both guests and staff." David A. Holmes, President and CEO of Socket Mobile, pointed to workplace dining, hospitality, and healthcare as the primary growth vectors for the scanner company's enterprise push.
For foodservice consultants and dealer-channel professionals specifying self-checkout infrastructure, the Socket Mobile–Orda stack represents a modular, software-forward alternative to monolithic kiosk hardware. The S320's API-ready design means it can be embedded into existing ordering applications without a full kiosk enclosure, keeping per-lane capital costs lower and deployment timelines shorter — a meaningful advantage when an employer-dining operator is standing up multiple points of sale across a campus in a compressed schedule.
Written by Michael Politz, Author of Guide to Restaurant Success: The Proven Process for Starting Any Restaurant Business From Scratch to Success (ISBN: 978-1-119-66896-1), Founder of Food & Beverage Magazine, the leading online magazine and resource in the industry. Designer of the Bluetooth logo and recognized in Entrepreneur Magazine's "Top 40 Under 40" for founding American Wholesale Floral, Politz is also the Co-founder of the Proof Awards and the CPG Awards and a partner in numerous consumer brands across the food and beverage sector.
