Technical Updates & News

We pulled thousands of hidden menus back into the light, added restaurant chain intelligence, and made your busiest screens load the instant you click. More to hunt, nothing to wait for.

📈 Thousands More Menus, Surfaced

Some of the menu data we'd already collected was sitting just out of your reach—processed, but invisible. We rebuilt how we track that work and pulled thousands of menus back into view. The result: deeper dish coverage on the restaurants you're already targeting, with zero extra effort from you. More menus means more buying signals—and more buying signals means more deals.

🔗 Now You Can Hunt By Chain

Independent, or part of a chain? Now you know. We started capturing restaurant chain information, so you can spot multi-location operators, tailor your pitch, and chase the deals that scale. One great conversation with a chain can be worth twenty cold calls.

⚡ Instant Screens, Zero Errors

Your most-used screens—recent downloads and menu review—now load the moment you open them, even on huge data sets. We wiped out the slow lookups and the timeout errors that used to make you wait and refresh. You click, it's there. Because every second you're not staring at a spinner is a second you're selling.

Type 'sate' or 'saté', 'cafe' or 'Café'—you'll find it either way. And behind the scenes, we made your data bulletproof: every change reversible, every change tested, nothing ever lost.

🔎 Search That Reads Your Intent

Accents and capital letters used to trip up your searches. Not anymore. 'Saté' now matches 'sate', 'Café' matches 'cafe', and upper- or lowercase makes no difference. You type the way you think—fast and rough—and the system finds exactly what you mean. No more empty results over a missing accent.

🔒 Your Data, Bulletproof

We rebuilt how every change to your data is made. Updates can now be safely rolled back, and we proved—with automated tests—that not a single record is silently lost along the way. Years of restaurant and dish intelligence, locked in and protected. The data you hunt with is data you can trust.

🧪 Tested Before It Ever Touches You

We now rehearse every change in a separate, production-like environment before it reaches your account. Problems get caught there—not in the middle of your workflow. You get the upgrades; you skip the growing pains.

You don't see it, but you run on it. We rebuilt the core engine that turns raw menus into the dish intelligence you sell with—cleaner, more traceable, and ready to scale.

🔧 A Brand-New Engine Under The Hood

We re-engineered the pipeline that reads restaurant menus and turns them into structured, searchable intelligence. It's more reliable, easier to grow, and built to handle far more volume without breaking a sweat. You'll feel it as fewer hiccups and fresher data.

🔍 Know Exactly Where Every Dish Came From

Every dish in your hunting ground can now be traced straight back to the exact menu it came from. That means you can trust what you're looking at, verify a lead in seconds, and never wonder whether the data is real. Provenance you can prove turns a guess into a confident pitch.

🧱 Built To Scale With You

This rebuild lays the foundation for faster data, broader coverage, and the automation we're rolling out next. We also made every upgrade reversible and safe, so we can move fast without ever putting your data at risk.

Hunters don't waste time on dead ends. Now you can banish the restaurants that aren't worth your breath—while we made the whole platform faster, more private, and impossible to knock over.

🙈 Banish The Dead-End Restaurants

Tired of seeing the same useless leads? Hide any restaurant—and tell us why. It vanishes from your hunting ground, and our systems stop wasting effort re-checking it. Less noise, more signal. Your list finally shows only the prospects worth chasing.

🛡️ Built Like A Tank

We hardened the platform against the glitches that cause downtime, so the tool is there the moment you need it. We also rebuilt how menu images are delivered—they load faster and are served privately through secure, expiring links, so your intelligence stays yours.

🎛️ Your View, Your Rules

Your sort order now sticks when you filter and search—no more re-sorting the same list ten times a day. And team leaders get tighter control: only authorized users can manage the priority menus you push to the front of the hunt.

Stop waiting for the data you actually need. Now you point us at the exact menus you want, we go get them—and everything exports straight into Excel, ready to work.

🎯 Force The Hunt: Target Exact Menus

Found a restaurant whose menu you need right now? Don't wait for the next pass. Drop in the menu links you care about and the system is forced to go grab them on its next run. You set the priorities; we do the fetching. The menus that matter to your deals jump straight to the front of the line.

📊 Exports Built For Excel

Your exports now arrive as native Excel files—open, filter, and pivot with zero cleanup. Export entire lists, or zero in on a single product category to pull exactly the dish intelligence you're after. And a clear progress bar plus a 'done' notification means you always know the moment your download is ready.

📍 Sharper Area Search

We rebuilt the postal-code controls into one clean, fast interface, so you can lock onto a territory in seconds. Define your hunting ground—then go to work.

If your software is slow, your sales are slow. We just removed the friction so you can close faster.

✨ Visual Clarity = Mental Clarity

We've decluttered the interface. Why? Because every distraction costs you focus. The new UI isn't just 'pretty'—it's designed to get you to the data you need in fewer clicks. Cleaner menus, sharper contrast, and a layout that respects your workflow.

🔧 The Invisible Power Upgrade

You can't see what we did under the hood, but you'll feel it. We've refactored the core data fetching engine. Queries that took seconds now take milliseconds. We've optimized the database indexing and reduced server load. It's like swapping a V6 for a V12.

🚀 The Result

A smoother, faster, more lethal tool for your sales arsenal. Log in now and feel the difference.

Your data. Your tools. Your way. We just handed you the keys to total data freedom.

🎯 True Data Ownership

Here's the deal: your prospect lists shouldn't be locked in our system. You need them in Excel. In your CRM. In whatever tool makes you money. Now you can export any restaurant list or dish inventory to CSV with one click. Take it, use it, dominate with it.

🔗 Seamless Integration

Feed your exported data straight into Salesforce, HubSpot, your custom dashboards—anywhere you do business. No more manual copying. No more data entry errors. No more wasting time on tasks a machine should handle. Export once, use everywhere.

📊 Analyze On Your Terms

Build custom pivot tables. Create your own reports. Slice and dice the data however your business demands. We find the opportunities. You analyze them your way. That's the power of owning your intelligence, not just renting it.

💪 Complete Control

Export entire restaurant databases with all the details—contact info, dish inventories, location data, the works. Or export targeted lists based on your searches. Filter it, segment it, weaponize it. The choice is yours. Because when you're hunting deals, you decide the strategy.

Time is money. Every second you wait is a second you're not closing deals. We just shaved more precious seconds off your workflow.

⚡ Instant Page Loads

We've eliminated unnecessary background requests that were slowing things down. When you click, you get results—immediately. No more phantom delays. Your browser now only fetches exactly what you need, when you need it.

🔍 Search That Actually Works

Remember those frustrating timeouts when searching by product category? Gone. We completely re-engineered how the system finds restaurants with specific dishes. What used to choke on large data sets now handles it effortlessly. Search 2 million+ dishes and get your results in seconds, not spinning wheels.

🎯 Lean & Mean Data Delivery

We've stripped away the bloat. The app now transfers only the essential information you need, making every interaction faster. Less data moving around means quicker screens, snappier navigation, and more time for what matters: hunting your next big customer.

📈 The Bottom Line

These aren't just incremental improvements—they're the kind of optimizations that add up throughout your day. Faster searches. Faster page loads. Faster everything. Because when you're in the field closing deals, every millisecond counts.

Imagine having a flight recorder for your entire sales operation. That's exactly what we've built.

👁️ The Audit Log: Ultimate Accountability

You asked for it, we delivered. You can now see exactly who did what, and when. Whether it's tracking changes or verifying activity, you now have a granular history of every action taken in the system. Perfect for team leaders who need to know their operation is running like a Swiss watch.

🛡️ Unshakeable Stability

We've upgraded our "engine room". Database backups are now persistent across deployments, and we've added new layers of redundancy. We've also optimized our export tools to handle unlimited rows. Your data isn't just stored; it's guarded and accessible.

🤝 The WertBorg Seal

You'll notice a small but significant change in our footer, cementing our alliance with WertBorg. It's a symbol of the quality and backing behind the tool you use every day.

What's better than more leads? More leads that load instantly.

📈 The 2 Million Dish Drop

We didn't rest over the holidays. We rescraped and re-parsed 20,000 restaurant menus, adding over 2,000,000 new dishes to our database. Your hunting ground just got significantly bigger. More data means more opportunities to find that perfect prospect.

✨ Laser-Focused UI

We've cleaned up the restaurant detail page. Menus are now sorted by date automatically, and we've removed the visual clutter. You see the freshest, most relevant data immediately. No distractions, just intel.

🚀 Performance Overhaul

We've eliminated the connection timeouts and optimized our database queries. The result? The app feels snappier, more responsive, and ready to keep up with your fastest sales reps. Time is money, and we're saving you both.

🆕 New Features on https://app.horecahunter.eu

Contract Management System

• Easy Contract Management: New functionality for creating and managing tenant contracts
• Contract UI: User-friendly interface for contract administration
• Contract Status Tracking: Monitoring of contract start and end dates

Flexible Region Management

• Regional Access Control: New functionality to assign specific regions to tenant contracts (Now also municipalities instead of only provinces)
• Provincial & Municipal Filtering: Support for both province and municipality level access control
• Dynamic Region Assignment: Simple UI for assigning regions to tenant contracts

⚡ UI Improvements

• Enhanced User Interface: Streamlined interface for contract and region management
• Responsive Design Updates: Improved mobile-first approach for all new functionalities
• Intuitive Navigation: Better workflow for tenant administrators

🔧 Technical Implementations

• Database Schema Updates: New tables and relationships for contract and region management
• Multi-tenant Data Isolation: Enhanced data separation based on regional contracts
• Query Optimization: Efficient database queries for region-based filtering

🛡️ Access Control Improvements

• Contract-based Access: Restaurant access linked to active contracts
• Regional Restrictions: Users only see restaurants within their assigned regions
• Dynamic Permissions: Real-time adjustment of access rights based on contract status

📊 Management Features

• Contract Dashboard: Central overview of all tenant contracts
• Region Configuration: Easy tools for configuring regional access
• Contract Monitoring: Overview of contract statuses and expiration dates

Technical Details

This release introduces a powerful contract management system that allows organizations to have precise control over which regions their users can access. The system supports both province and municipality level filtering, enabling flexible and scalable access control.

Enhanced error handling.

🍽️ Improvements to Dish Search Functionality

New features on https://app.horecahunter.eu

✨ Improved Search Results

• Search terms are now highlighted in yellow in search results, so you can immediately see why a restaurant appears in your search results
• Found dishes are neatly displayed with name and description under each restaurant
• Search results are more compact and organized

🎯 Better Search Experience

• Automatic focus on the first search field when you open the page
• You can now press Enter to search (no need to click the search button anymore)
• Your search terms remain saved in the form fields after searching

📄 Pagination Added

• Large search results are now divided into organized pages
• You can easily browse through the results
• Faster loading times through better data organization

🔄 Seamless Navigation

• When you go from search results to a restaurant detail page, your search terms are also highlighted there
• Your search context is preserved when navigating between pages

🛡️ Technical Improvements

• Better security and privacy settings
• Faster and more stable application performance

These updates make searching for dishes even easier and faster. Try it out on https://app.horecahunter.eu!

System: JAAPUI HorecaHunter Management Application

Reporter: Beta Test Customer

Issue Description:

The web application was experiencing regular outages in the production environment. Users received error messages when trying to log in or view restaurant data. The log files showed the error message: "MySQL Connection not available."

Root Cause:

The database server (MySQL) automatically terminates connections that remain inactive for too long. This happens by default after a certain period to conserve memory. Our application wasn't checking if the database connection was still active before using it, causing users to receive error messages.

Applied Solution:

• Database configuration updated: We updated the database settings with "pool_pre_ping=True". This ensures the application automatically tests if a database connection is still working before using it.
• Connection pool settings: The number of simultaneous database connections is set to 10 with a maximum of 20 additional connections during peak times.
• Health check added: A new "/health" page has been created that automatically monitors all critical systems (database, file storage). https://app.horecahunter.eu/health

Result:

The application should now be stable and no longer experience outages due to database connection issues. The system automatically recovers if connection problems occur.

Preventive Measures:

• Regular monitoring of the /health page
• Database connection statistics monitoring
• Automatic alerts for system issues

Status: Resolved ✅

Addendum: Browser Cache Issue

Symptom:

After resolving the database issue, some users may still see error pages, even though the system is working normally again.

Cause:

The user's web browser has stored the old error page in memory (cache). This causes the browser to show the old, broken page instead of fetching the working website.

Solution for Users:

For Windows users:

• Chrome/Edge: Press Ctrl + Shift + R or Ctrl + F5 simultaneously
• Firefox: Press Ctrl + Shift + R simultaneously

For Mac users:

• Chrome/Safari: Press Cmd + Shift + R simultaneously
• Firefox: Press Cmd + Shift + R simultaneously

Tip: This issue disappears automatically after a few hours when the browser cache is automatically refreshed.

Today marks a historic moment in the Horeca wholesale industry. At exactly 1:15 PM on September 3rd, 2025, Marko van der Puil officially published the first version of HorecaHunter to the world via app.horecahunter.eu.

🎯 A New Era of Sales Intelligence

HorecaHunter represents a fundamental shift in how wholesalers approach the Horeca market. No more wasted days chasing dead-end leads. No more burning cash on unproductive meetings. The AI-powered sales weapon your competition fears is now officially armed and ready.

💡 The Vision Realized

What started as a vision to revolutionize Horeca sales has become reality. HorecaHunter's AI engine is already scanning thousands of data points in real-time—permits, investments, menu changes, online activity—to identify businesses showing buying signals. Sales teams can now hunt with precision instead of hoping for luck.

⚡ What's Live Right Now

• AI-Powered Lead Identification: Find restaurants actively looking to buy what you sell

📈 Immediate Impact Expected

Early beta users have already reported dramatic improvements in sales efficiency. One wholesale distributor increased their qualified meeting rate by 340% in just two weeks. Another reduced their sales cycle from 6 months to 6 weeks by targeting only businesses showing active buying signals.

🗣️ A Message from the Founder

"Today we stop the madness of spray-and-pray sales tactics in the Horeca industry. Every sales professional deserves to hunt with intelligence, not hope. HorecaHunter gives them that unfair advantage." - Marko van der Puil, Founder

🔮 What's Next

This is just the beginning. The development team is already working on advanced features including predictive analytics, automated lead scoring, and CRM integrations. The goal remains the same: arm sales teams to hit the right targets, at the right time, every time.

Ready to join the hunt? Experience the future of Horeca sales at app.horecahunter.eu and see why your competition is already nervous.

The hunt is on. Welcome to the new era of sales intelligence.

- Marko van der Puil