Restaurant Buddy
✦ Mobile-First · AI-Powered · Bedrock-Native · Investor Briefing · May 2026

The All-In-One AI
Operating System for
Modern Restaurants

Inventory · Time Tracking · Cash Register Reports · Customer Tabs · AI Assistant, all from your phone.

🍽️ Run your restaurant from the beach. 🤖 AI that knows your menu. 📊 Data that compounds daily.

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500+
Restaurants Targeted
12
Core Features
6
AI Tools
99.9%
Uptime SLO
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01

The Problem with Running a Modern Restaurant

Today: Operators are buried in tools, paperwork, and spreadsheets that don't talk to each other.
Stressed restaurant manager buried in paperwork

Every operator runs the same gauntlet: half a dozen apps, paper invoices, clipboard timesheets, and a shoebox of cash receipts. The data lives everywhere, and nowhere they can use it. Restaurant Buddy collapses the stack.

  • Juggling six different apps just to know what's happening today: POS, scheduling, inventory, accounting, payroll, supplier orders.
  • Manual spreadsheets eating 3 hours/day. The owner spends the close-out shift typing numbers into Excel instead of running the floor.
  • No mobile access to real-time data. Step out of the building and the operation goes dark. You're flying blind until you're back at the office desktop.
  • Staff scheduling chaos. Late clock-ins, no overtime alerts, paper timesheets, surprise labor costs at the end of the pay period.
6
Apps Replaced
3hrs
Saved Daily
$2,400
Avg Monthly Saving
0
Spreadsheets Needed
▲ The Solution

One platform. Every job to be done.

One mobile-first system covering every job operators actually do. No more app-switching. No more spreadsheets. No more flying blind.

01

Owner Dashboard

Module: Real-time KPIs · Revenue trend · Anomaly alerts · Multi-role views
app.restaurant-buddy.com/dashboard
Owner Dashboard, real-time restaurant KPIs

Your entire restaurant at a glance. Revenue, staff, inventory, anomalies. One screen, role-aware, refreshes in real time.

📊

Live KPIs

Five revenue, labor, and inventory cards refresh as transactions happen. No batch refresh, no stale data.

📈

Revenue chart

7-day, 14-day, 30-day toggles. Compare against prior periods. Spot dips before they become trends.

🚨

Anomaly alerts

AI watches cash variance, inventory levels, and labor cost patterns. Surfaces what's off, daily, automatically.

👥

Role-based views

Owner sees everything. Manager sees their store. Employee sees their shift. One app, three lenses.

02

Inventory Management

Module: Real-time stock · AI-powered alerts · Supplier links · Reorder suggestions

Real-time stock tracking with AI-powered low-stock alerts. Never run out of an ingredient mid-service again.

📦

Live stock counts

Quantities adjust as items are sold, prepped, or wasted. No nightly inventory walk required.

🔔

Smart alerts

Threshold tuning per item. Gets sharper over time as the AI learns your turnover rate.

🔗

Recipe-linked

Each ingredient maps to the dishes that use it. Sell a burger → flour, beef, lettuce, tomato all decrement.

📋

Reorder ready

One-tap purchase orders to your linked suppliers. Approval flow + delivery date tracking included.

app.restaurant-buddy.com/inventory
Inventory Management, real-time stock tracking
03

Employee Time Tracking

Module: Clock in/out · Shift scheduling · Overtime alerts · Late-arrival tracking
app.restaurant-buddy.com/time-tracking
Employee Time Tracking, clock in/out and shifts

Clock in/out, shift scheduling, overtime alerts. No more paper timesheets, and no more surprise labor cost spikes at month-end.

⏱️

Mobile clock-in

Staff clock in/out from their phone or your tablet kiosk. GPS-verified if you want it strict.

📅

Shift scheduling

Drag-and-drop weekly schedule. Notifies staff of changes. Imports/exports CSV for payroll.

⚠️

Overtime alerts

Real-time warning when an employee is about to cross overtime thresholds. Save thousands per pay period.

⏰

Late tracking

Per-member late count, average tardiness, hours-worked stats. Address chronic issues before they fester.

04

Cash Register Reports

Module: 8-step close-out wizard · Variance detection · Z-report OCR · Daily/weekly/monthly

End-of-day reports in 30 seconds. The 8-step close-out wizard collapses what used to take 45 minutes into a guided mobile flow, and an AI-powered variance check catches the math errors before submission.

🧾

Z-report OCR

Snap a photo of the register tape. Claude Vision parses it. No retyping numbers from a thermal print-out.

💰

Drawer counter

Denomination-by-denomination count. Variance computed live. Flagged before it becomes a discrepancy report.

📊

Auto rollups

Daily → weekly → monthly. Revenue categories, paid-outs, tip pools. Exportable for the bookkeeper.

🔍

Anomaly review

Pattern-based variance detection. Flags suspicious closes that look like skim or training errors.

app.restaurant-buddy.com/cash-register
Cash Register Reports, daily close-out wizard
05

AI Assistant

Module: Claude-powered chat · Image analysis · Grounded in your data · Markdown answers
app.restaurant-buddy.com/ai-chat
AI Assistant, chat interface with image analysis

Ask anything. "What was my best-selling dish last week?" "Who worked the most overtime?" Instant, sourced answers, grounded in your real restaurant data, not hallucinated.

💬

ChatGPT-style

Familiar interface, but every answer is traced back to a query against your live database. Trust, but verify.

📸

Image analysis

Upload a photo of a dish, an invoice, a damaged shipment. Claude Vision reads it, files it, and acts on it.

🧠

Memory across sessions

The assistant remembers prior conversations and your specific menu, vendors, and policies. Boots smarter every week.

📋

Action-ready

Answers come with one-tap actions: "place reorder," "page Maria," "open the close-out wizard." Chat that does work.

06

Multi-Location Overview

Module: Portfolio dashboard · Cross-location comparison · Centralized roles · One inbox

Own multiple locations? One dashboard to rule them all. Compare performance side-by-side, manage staff across stores, and never confuse "which Marco's was that?" again.

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Portfolio view

All locations on one screen: revenue, labor cost, anomaly count, today vs. yesterday. Drill in with one tap.

↔️

Cross-store compare

Why is Location A converting better than B? Side-by-side metrics expose the operating gaps you can copy/paste.

👤

Centralized team

Staff that works two locations clocks in once. Permissions and roles travel. No double-onboarding.

📥

One inbox

All alerts, anomalies, and approvals across stores in a single feed. Triage from your phone in five minutes flat.

app.restaurant-buddy.com/portfolio
Multi-Location Overview, portfolio dashboard
▲ Mobile-First

Run the entire operation from your phone.

Mobile-first, not an afterthought. Every workflow ships tested on a phone before it touches the desktop. Owners run their restaurants from the floor, the office, the road, and the beach.

Mobile Dashboard
Dashboard
Mobile Inventory
Mobile Menu
Mobile Time Tracking
Time Tracking
Mobile Cash Register
Cash Register
Mobile AI Assistant
AI Assistant
▲ The Market

A $50B+ category still using pen and paper.

Restaurant management software is one of the largest, slowest-moving software categories on the planet. Operators are desperate for a unified, mobile-first answer, and the legacy giants aren't shipping it.

$400M SOM $8B SAM $50B+ TAM
TAM

$50B+

Global restaurant management software market across POS, scheduling, inventory, and reporting tools.

SAM

$8B

English-speaking markets, 10–500 seat independent restaurants. The underserved middle Toast and Square ignore.

SOM

$400M

Realistic 5-year capture target. ~80,000 paying restaurants at $400/mo blended ARPA.

1M+ restaurants in the US alone. 72% still use pen and paper or basic spreadsheets for inventory and time tracking. The legacy POS giants own the transaction layer, but the operational layer above it is wide open.

▲ Traction

Already shipping. Beta pilots onboarding now.

Restaurant Buddy isn't a slide deck. It's a shipping product with paying pilots, a growing feature surface, and a public roadmap. We're past the 'will it work' phase.

▌ Beta Pilot #1

Harris Hotel, Canada

Operated by Morgan Ford — founding investor, beta pilot, and the person whose late-night venting about cash-register chaos, missing inventory, and staff no-shows accidentally inspired the entire product. She helped shape what Restaurant Buddy is. Validates the hotel-restaurant cross-vertical play.

▌ Build State

Phase 2A in active dev

Recipes, tip pools, advanced scheduling, POS integration. 58/58 stories from Phase 1 complete with adversarial code review and 1,670+ tests passing.

▌ AI Live

Claude assistant + image analysis

Production AI chat with multimodal image analysis (Z-report OCR, invoice parsing, dish recognition). Tier-enforced usage with monthly counters.

Ideation
Q1 '26
MVP
Q2 '26
Beta Launch
May '26
Phase 2A
Q3 '26
Series A
Q1 '27
▲ Tech Stack

Built on production-grade infrastructure.

Type-safe, edge-deployed, multi-tenant Postgres with strict RLS. AI inference natively on AWS Bedrock (Claude Sonnet 4.6 + Opus 4.7). Real-time everywhere. Sub-second response from anywhere on the planet.

Next.js
TypeScript
Supabase
Stripe
Vercel
Claude
AWS Bedrock
Sentry
Tailwind
shadcn/ui
Resend
PostgreSQL
Next.js
TypeScript
Supabase
Stripe
Vercel
Claude
AWS Bedrock
Sentry
Tailwind
shadcn/ui
Resend
PostgreSQL
▲ The Ask, Special Offer

Back the operating system
for the next wave of restaurants.

Three founding tiers. Real equity, lifetime affiliate commission, and a direct line to the founder. Limited allocation, closes when filled.

Tier 1 · Founding
$3,000 → 0.5% equity
For aligned operators & angels
  • 1 year free Premium access, every feature, every tier.
  • Founding investor badge on profile and product.
  • Monthly investor updates, metrics, learnings, asks, wins.
  • 30% lifetime affiliate commission on every restaurant you refer.
  • Direct line to the founder, Telegram, WhatsApp, or email.
Tier 2 · Anchor
$6,000 → 1.0% equity
For strategic partners & advisors
  • Everything in Tier 1, 1 year Premium, badge, updates, direct line.
  • Priority feature pipeline, your asks jump the queue.
  • Co-branding opportunities on case studies and launch materials.
  • Quarterly founder strategy call, 30 minutes, screen-shared roadmap.
  • 30% lifetime affiliate commission on referred restaurants.
Tier 3 · Partner
$15,000 → 2.75% equity
For committed long-term backers
  • Everything in Tier 2, every perk compounded.
  • Lifetime free Premium access, no expiry, no tier cap.
  • Advisory board seat, quarterly cadence, equity-aligned.
  • Logo + name on launch press materials and investor wall.
  • 30% lifetime affiliate commission on referred restaurants.

Equity subject to shareholder agreement. Affiliate commissions paid monthly on verified conversions. Allocation is first-come-first-served and capped at the founding round.

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