Sauce Integrates with Apple Business Connect to Boost Restaurant Visibility

Sauce, the leading first-party ordering and delivery platform for independent restaurants, has announced a significant new integration with Apple Business Connect, a free tool from Apple that allows businesses to customize their digital presence across Apple's ecosystem. This partnership enables Sauce's restaurant partners to directly manage and optimize their information on Apple Maps place cards, ensuring that details like hours, photos, and promotions remain accurate and engaging for customers. By leveraging this integration, restaurants can create a smoother path from discovery to ordering, as highlighted by Sauce CEO Li-ran Navon, who emphasized that this move aligns with the company's mission to help restaurants take control of their brand and customer relationships. The rollout, which began in phases in December 2025, includes access to Apple Business Connect's Insights feature, providing valuable metrics on how customers discover and interact with place cards, allowing restaurants to refine promotions and tailor offers for better engagement.

The integration represents a strategic evolution for Sauce, as noted by Elliot Hool, VP of Marketing, who described it as adding an important new layer to Sauce's end-to-end platform, transforming it into a complete ecosystem for restaurant management and growth. This move goes beyond mere delivery services, incorporating discovery, ordering, and AI-powered customer retention automation into a unified system. Restaurants can register for Apple Business Connect for free through a dedicated link and link their account via Sauce to manage their presence across Apple's apps, including Maps, Siri, Wallet, and Mail, or work with Sauce Restaurant Success Managers for automated management. This enhancement aims to help restaurants reach more diners efficiently, maximizing profitability and customer loyalty by owning every touchpoint of the customer journey, from digital discovery to delivery.

For more details on how Sauce supports restaurants in running delivery on their own terms, interested parties can visit the company's website. Sauce operates throughout the U.S., including major markets like New York and Florida, and is committed to helping independent restaurants and chains reclaim control over their brand, data, and revenue through commission-free solutions. The integration underscores a broader trend in the restaurant industry toward leveraging technology to enhance direct customer connections and reduce reliance on third-party platforms, positioning Sauce as a key player in this shift toward greater autonomy and efficiency for food service businesses.