Vision

What is live today

Three AI agents run in production restaurants right now:

• 📦 AI Inventory — vision reads invoices into stock, POS sales auto-deduct, low-par items alert, agent drafts the next purchase order. Track → Deduct → Replenish → Reorder. The loop closes itself.
• 📅 AI Scheduling — day-part demand forecasting, auto-generated shifts, compliance built in, bilingual EN/中文 staff app.
• 💬 AI CRM — customers sorted into Big Spender · VIP · At-Risk · Lapsed. AI drafts targeted campaigns. SMS, email, and WhatsApp.

Ceiling Vision AI — Coming Q2 2027

The fourth agent puts cameras above the line, with edge compute on the wall. Once it ships, the kitchen sees itself.

What it watches — and why it matters

• Foreign-object detection — one missed contamination is one lawsuit, one viral video, one closed location. Average product-liability settlement runs into six figures. Vision catches it before the plate leaves the pass.
• Prep-par sensing — vision counts what is on the line in real time. No more running out of marinated chicken mid-rush. No more over-prepping and tossing food at close.
• Plate consistency scoring — every plate matches the picture. Multi-location operators stop losing customers to “the one in Brea is better.”
• Food safety compliance — temperature, glove use, prep windows. The vision layer catches what a busy GM cannot watch all at once.
• Continuous, objective data — every shift produces training data for the model. Forecasting gets sharper. Cross-store benchmarking becomes possible. New-store cloning becomes real.

Why this is the wedge

The back of house is the last big surface of a restaurant business that still runs on humans yelling across a kitchen. Cameras are finally cheap enough to run AI at the edge for under a dollar a day per kitchen. The technology that powers self-driving cars can now watch a prep line.

One missed foreign object is more expensive than the entire vision system for a year. The economics make themselves.

How alerts surface

Four channels, one source of truth: wall-mounted iPad on the line, GM phone push notification, kitchen display screen banner, audible station chime. Routine stuff handles itself silently. Humans only get pinged on hard flags.

Privacy by design

Footage stays on-prem on the edge box. Only model embeddings and flagged events leave the kitchen. We never track staff productivity. We never sell footage. We never replace your GM — we make her job possible.

Pilots open Q2 2027. Tell us about your kitchen.