aid: ritual-ordering
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ritual-ordering/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Ritual
kind: company
description: Ritual is a Toronto-based restaurant order-ahead and "social ordering"
  platform (ritual.co, founded 2014) that lets consumers pre-order, pay, and skip
  the line at local restaurants and coffee shops, and lets colleagues pile onto a
  shared order for group pickup. For restaurants it offers Ritual ONE (online
  ordering, company/building perk programs, and Ritual for Coffee). Ritual does NOT
  publish a public or self-serve developer API - there is no developer portal, API
  reference, SDKs, or authentication documentation. Restaurant order injection into
  point-of-sale systems is handled through partner/POS integrations (documented on
  partnersupport.ritual.co) and third-party ordering aggregators such as Deliverect,
  not through a Ritual-published API. Operating status - Ritual continues to operate
  the consumer app and online-ordering platform, but the business is distressed and
  in transition - revenue fell from ~US$11M (2021) to ~US$3.9M (H1 2024) with
  repeated layoffs, and in January 2025 Shopify "acqui-hired" the co-founders (CEO
  Ray Reddy became Shopify's VP of Retail/POS) and much of the R&D team while a
  separate process to sell the standalone Ritual business was underway. This entry
  is a documentation stub with no APIs modeled because none are publicly
  documented.
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- Restaurants
- Order Ahead
- Online Ordering
- Food Ordering
- Social Ordering
- Payments
- POS Integration
- No Public API
created: '2026-07-04'
modified: '2026-07-04'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
common:
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/ritual-ordering-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/ritual-ordering-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://ritual.co
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://ca.linkedin.com/company/ritual-co
- type: Documentation
  url: https://partnersupport.ritual.co/hc/en-us/categories/360005652153-POS-Integrations
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com