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Title: From Coding Between Orders to a Full Software Ecosystem: Charlotte-Area Black Founder Has Spent Nearly Two Decades Building Technology for the Small Operator
United States, 8th Jun 2026 — Guru Boxz Technologies LLC today marked a milestone in its growth as a multi-product technology company, with founder TR Burns now operating a connected ecosystem of software and marketplace products spanning restaurant operations, local food delivery, and community platforms — several of which are already live and in market. The company is the result of a nearly two-decade journey that started not in a tech hub, but in ministry.A Founding Story That Started in 2008Burns, a Black software engineer and entrepreneur with Brooklyn roots, did not come up through a computer science program or a Silicon Valley pipeline. He is self-taught. The work that would become Guru Boxz Technologies began in 2008, when Burns — then a faith leader — set out to solve a problem churches were facing: they couldn't reach a broader audience online, and they had few ways to generate new income. His answer was to build web-streaming solutions for churches, along with Guru Boxz Radio and a TV network that gave congregations both a wider reach and an additional revenue stream. The Guru Boxz name has carried that mission ever since.That early work established a pattern Burns still follows today: find a group of smaller operators underserved by the technology built for large institutions, and build the tools they actually need.Coding Between OrdersThe leap into restaurant technology came out of Burns' own kitchen. He and his family created the Food Geeks Eatery concept and bootstrapped it into a working restaurant in the Charlotte metro — now in its eighth year of operation. As an owner-operator, Burns ran into a wall: there was nothing built for the small, fully-digital operator. So he built it himself — writing code between orders, validating each feature against...
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