What is TapaPass
A tasting passport platform built for the organizations that run food trails
TapaPass is a digital tasting passport and food trail platform for Business Improvement Districts, DMOs, restaurant associations, and chambers of commerce. Visitors scan a venue QR and submit a dish photo for review. Organizers can inspect participation, venue activity, and program data in a dashboard. Hosting, exports, privacy terms, review rules, and organizer access are confirmed in the pilot scope.
- Verified, not estimated. A vote only counts after a QR scan and an AI-validated photo of the dish — so your participation numbers reflect real foot traffic, not guesses.
- Export requirements are explicit. The pilot scope records which data fields and formats the organizer can export.
- Operational visibility. The organizer dashboard is designed to show participation while the program is running.
- Privacy is scoped. Hosting, processors, retention, cookies, and contractual requirements are documented for the commissioning organization.
Who it is for
BIDs & downtown associations
Run a food trail or tasting crawl across your district and prove the impact to your board and members. Live neighborhood heat maps show which blocks draw traffic, each venue sees its own ranking, and you export the full dataset for your annual report.
DMOs, CVBs & tourism boards
Turn a restaurant week or culinary trail into a measurable visitor program. A 365-day passport keeps visitors collecting stamps across trails, and verified scans give you defensible attendance numbers instead of estimates — data you keep and own.
Restaurant associations & chambers
Give member restaurants a panel with their own ranking, comments, and photos in real time. Verified voting means a fair contest, and the program runs as a PWA your members and visitors install in one tap — no app store, no friction.
How it works
From QR scan to live data
- 1 · A visitor scans the physical QR code posted at each participating venue — no app store download, the PWA opens in one tap.
- 2 · They upload a photo of the dish, and an AI validates the photo to confirm they were actually at the venue.
- 3 · Their vote counts, and a stamp lands in their passport — which keeps collecting across trails and cities for 365 days.
- 4 · The organizer reviews participation and venue activity through the dashboard during the program.
- 5 · The agreed export and handoff path is tested before the pilot is closed.
Plans
Clear plans, no surprises
Single Trail
A bounded first trail with venue count, dashboard access, branding, exports, support, and acceptance evidence confirmed in the proposal.
Annual
A multi-program scope with trail capacity, API or file exports, venue access, and support boundaries agreed in writing.
Enterprise
A custom white-label or multi-district scope with domain, integrations, service targets, governance, and handoff agreed in writing.
Real proof
Inspect the product before commissioning a US pilot
The public demo lets a prospective organizer inspect the visitor flow and product interface. It is product evidence, not a US client case study, and it does not establish results, scale, service levels, or fit for a future district without a scoped pilot.
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Frequently asked questions
How does procurement and the pilot work — can we start small?
Yes. A bounded pilot can define one trail, a venue limit, organizer access, review rules, exports, support, acceptance evidence, and a launch plan. Timing is confirmed only after dependencies and approvals are understood.
Who owns the participation data, and what export do we get?
The commissioning organization and YAG document data roles, export fields, formats, timing, retention, and handoff in the pilot scope. Those terms are not assumed from a marketing page.
Is it privacy-compliant for a public-sector or association program?
Privacy suitability depends on the commissioning organization, data collected, users, hosting, processors, retention, cookies, and contract. Those facts are reviewed and documented before launch; this page does not provide a compliance guarantee.
How long does it take to launch?
Timing depends on venue data, branding, QR production, organizer approvals, privacy review, testing, and training. The proposal records the launch plan after those dependencies are understood.
What happens if we don't renew?
The contract and handoff plan define continued access, exports, retention, deletion, and transition steps before a pilot begins.
Run a food trail you can actually measure
Inspect the product demo, then request a scoped pilot for your district, restaurant week, or culinary trail. Capabilities, data terms, service targets, and acceptance evidence are confirmed in writing.