In pilot

Virtual Waiter

A virtual waiter: scan the table QR, talk to the menu, and order through it.

Who it's for Restaurants whose menu QR code should answer questions and take the order, not just show a PDF

In pilot — proving it with real users before we market it.

The story

Every restaurant replaced its menu with a QR code, and every one of them lost something in the trade: the waiter who knew the food. A PDF cannot tell you the paneer is the thing people come back for, that a dish is hotter than it sounds, or what to drink with it.

Virtual Waiter puts that back. The diner scans the same QR and talks to it — what is in this, what is most ordered, what is this place known for, what goes with what — and it answers out loud, in their own language. When they are ready, they say so, and the order goes through it.

It is the voice core aimed at a very specific counter: the moment between sitting down and deciding. Restaurants are a good test of whether spoken answers beat a screen, because the diner's hands are busy, the room is loud, and nobody wants to install anything to eat dinner.

Today it is finished and unplaced. No restaurant is running it, and we would rather write that than dress a demo up as a pilot. The first one to put it on their tables gets our full attention.

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