Time is the
only thing
money can't buy.
Until now. Wayt is the first tech-enabled marketplace connecting customers who value their time with independent contractors who hold their spot in line — at any venue, in any market.
Americans waste 37 billion hours waiting in line every year.
That's not a rounding error — it's a $600B productivity loss priced at the federal minimum wage alone. Yet the experience of waiting in line is entirely unchanged from what it was 50 years ago.
Restaurant wait times have increased 27% since 2019. The rise of no-reservation dining, experiential venues, and weekend food culture has made the problem worse. There's no technological fix — the line is physical. Someone has to be in it.
Sources: NRA, OpenTable, Yelp Consumer Survey 2024
A human solution to a human problem.
Wayt dispatches a vetted independent contractor to hold your spot in line. You leave. You get a text when it's your turn. You show up ready to be seated. The entire experience takes 60 seconds to book.
Browse partner venues or enter any location. See live feasibility.
Right Now, Later Today, Scheduled, or Spot Swap if you're already in line.
A contractor heads to the venue immediately. You track them in real time.
Arrive just in time. Your Waiter hands off your spot. You walk in.
Early signals. Real proof.
Model the opportunity yourself.
Adjust the inputs. Watch the market play out in real time.
A self-reinforcing flywheel.
Each component of Wayt's model strengthens every other. This is not linear growth — it's compounding.
Three revenue-aligned stakeholders.
Pay a per-booking fee (market-rate) to skip the wait entirely.
Earn 80% of net booking revenue per job. Flexible, on-demand work.
Verified Partners receive automatic relay payouts per completed booking.
Why this can't be copied overnight.
Select a moat to explore.
No app, bot, or reservation system can physically hold a spot in a queue. Wayt's core service requires a real person — making it fundamentally impossible for a pure-software competitor to replicate. This is a hardware problem with a human solution.
| Capability | Wayt | OpenTable | Just Wait | TaskRabbit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Physical spot holding | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Real-time dispatch | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ~ |
| Multi-venue flexibility | ✓ | ~ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Venue partner economics | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Scalable contractor supply | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Spot Swap / handoff tech | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
Charleston is the proof. The country is the market.
TAM: $8.4B (U.S. sit-down restaurant wait market alone).
Built by someone who was tired of waiting.
Wayt was founded in Charleston, SC with a simple observation: the people willing to pay for convenience and the people willing to earn by showing up have never been connected. We built the bridge.
Building Wayt from the ground up — product, operations, technology, and market development. Actively onboarding Waiters across multiple states ahead of expansion.
Team information available in full deck upon request.
We're raising.
Let's talk.
Wayt is currently raising a seed round to fund Waiter network expansion, technology development, and market growth across new cities. We're looking for investors who understand marketplace dynamics and the value of a defensible physical moat.
This page is intended for accredited investors and qualified institutional buyers. All financial projections are illustrative. Past performance and traction metrics are not guarantees of future results.