Have you worked with restaurants before?

Not yet. That's why this page says how I'd approach it, not what I've done. The Walkthrough is two sessions, and you'll know quickly whether I can help.

Do I have to replace Toast or Square?

No. I work with what you already run, and with the invoice tools you may already pay for.

With the Walkthrough. Two sessions with your team and a one-page map of the workflows worth fixing. If none of them are, I'll say so.

For restaurants

AI and automation for independent restaurants

For independents with one to eight locations. Invoice entry is mostly solved. What leaks is the stuff nobody wrote down.

Where this comes from

I haven’t worked with a restaurant yet, and no owner has walked me through their week. This page comes from reading how small restaurant groups run their back office, and from a problem a grocer described to me: credits for short or damaged deliveries that take too much follow-up.

If you run one, the Walkthrough is how I’d check this against your real week.

What’s already solved

A lot of restaurant back-office work already has a good tool. Invoice scanning, tip pools, menu sync across delivery apps. I wouldn’t sell you another one.

What’s left is the work that runs on promises and memory. A credit the driver mentioned. A payout nobody broke down. An event inquiry that sat for three days. That’s where I’d start.

What I'd automate first

1
Credits and overcharges
A driver says a short case will be credited, and it never shows up. A contract price creeps up on the invoice and nobody catches it.
What I'd build
Every promised credit logged at the door and tracked until it posts. Invoice prices checked against your contract, with follow-ups drafted for a person to approve.
Handoff
2
Delivery-app payouts
Each delivery app pays out one lump of sales, fees, refunds and tax. Matching it to orders is a spreadsheet job, and error charges go undisputed.
What I'd build
Each payout broken back into its orders, fees and refunds, with the charges worth disputing on one list.
Make Your Tools Talk
3
Comparing locations
Seeing how one location did against another means exporting from the POS into Excel and building it by hand.
What I'd build
Ask how the locations compare in a sentence and get the numbers back, with the query behind the answer shown.
Ask-Your-Data
4
Private event inquiries
Event inquiries come in by email and form. The answer depends on dates, minimums and menus that live in the manager's head, so replies come late or not at all.
What I'd build
Your event menus, minimums and rules written down once. Each inquiry gets a drafted reply the same day, and a person sends it.
Ask-Once

Systems I'd expect to work with

Toast
Square
DoorDash
Uber Eats
Grubhub
MarginEdge
xtraCHEF
QuickBooks

What I wouldn't build

Invoice data entry. MarginEdge and xtraCHEF already do it. I'd build on the data they capture.
Tip pools and menu sync. Off-the-shelf tools handle both.
Temperature logs and physical counts. Sensors and people do those better than software I'd write.

Something I've built

I haven't built anything for a restaurant. The closest thing I've built is fridge-door, which reads incoming email, suggests what to do with it, and waits for a person to approve.

fridge-door screenshot[NEEDS REAL PHOTO]

Personal build

fridge-door: a household app that reads the mail

School emails and flyers in, organized to-dos out. Real API integrations, built for my own family.

What it shows: Email and paper in, drafted to-dos out, and a person approves before anything lands.

My own household

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Questions

Have you worked with restaurants before?: Not yet. That's why this page says how I'd approach it, not what I've done. The Walkthrough is two sessions, and you'll know quickly whether I can help.
Do I have to replace Toast or Square?: No. I work with what you already run, and with the invoice tools you may already pay for.
Where do I start?: With the Walkthrough. Two sessions with your team and a one-page map of the workflows worth fixing. If none of them are, I'll say so.

Start with a free 30-minute call.

If the Walkthrough is the right next step, I'll say so. If it isn't, I'll say that too.

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Where this comes from

What’s already solved

What I'd automate first

Credits and overcharges

Delivery-app payouts

Comparing locations