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Who I help

AI and automation for cafés, restaurants and takeaways.

Full tables, thin margins, and the admin happens after close.

Hospitality margins don't leave room for empty tables or wasted hours. Yet no-shows still land on the busiest nights, the rota still gets built in a group chat at midnight, and the numbers arrive too late to change anything.

Deposits and reminders cut the no-shows, the rota can live somewhere staff actually check, and a small dashboard can tell you which nights make money while it still matters.

The week I keep hearing about

  • No-shows on exactly the nights you can least afford them
  • Rotas and holiday swaps negotiated in a midnight group chat
  • The month's numbers arriving three weeks too late to act on

Fixes cafés, restaurants and takeaways ask me for most

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