The Restaurant Intelligence Platform

You poured everything in.
Let your restaurant pay you back.

Running an F&B business is one of the most demanding forms of love there is – early mornings, late nights, a hundred small decisions before service even starts. ChefYoda gives the love back: your staff talk to guests, not screens – the order writes itself, the kitchen stays in sync, and every conversation becomes insight. A business that loves you back at month end, not just at the table.

ChefYoda OrderPad · Table 7 · live capture, real pipeline

A real table conversation on the left – the order building itself on the right. Nobody typed anything.

The same three leaks, every
full restaurant quietly pays for.

Different city, different cuisine, same rail. These are the leaks that decide whether a busy restaurant makes money – or just looks like it does.

Leak 01 – Wrong orders

Order accuracy in the industry runs 85–95%. Every miss is a remake, a comp, and food in the bin.

Hand-keyed order entry runs 3–8% errors per line – and it spikes exactly when you're busiest.
Leak 02 – Time on screens, not guests

Your best people spend their shift punching screens and shuttling to the POS instead of hosting.

96% of operators are paying more for labour than last year – and spending it on data entry.
Leak 03 – Flying blind

What guests asked for and didn't get, who upsells, where table-turns stall – it all evaporates at close.

The richest data in your restaurant is the conversation at the table. Today, nobody keeps it.

One conversation.
The whole restaurant follows.

ChefYoda runs the full life of a table – from the first hello to the settled bill – and turns all of it into numbers you can act on.

Order building itself from the table conversation
Talk. The order writes itself – every steak temperature, every "no cilantro."
Kitchen ticket with courses and holds
Cook. Tickets by station, per-item timing, desserts held until the table is ready.
Itemized bill with tax, service charge and tip
Settle. A correct bill in one tap – taxes, service charge, tips, sequential bill numbers.
Sales insights dashboard
Learn. Sales, operations and guest intelligence from every seating – automatically.
01

Hospitality, brought back

Seamless, highly accurate order taking while your staff have real conversations with guests. Read back, confirm with the table, done – no pads, no punching.

02

Ten minutes back per table

Voice to kitchen to bill with zero re-keying. Every special instruction captured; order errors – and the remakes and comps they cause – designed out.

03

Your restaurant, answering back

Top sellers, kitchen bottlenecks, waiter performance, dishes guests asked for that you don't serve – deep analysis across sales, marketing and operations.

Ask your restaurant anything.

Every seating feeds a living picture of your business – what sold, what stalled, what guests said out loud. Then you just ask, and it answers on the spot.

Insights · Ask ChefYoda · live capture, real answers

Every answer computed live from this restaurant's own orders – the AI can't invent a figure.

  • "Who's my best waiter?"
  • "Who upsold desserts the most this month?"
  • "What's their most successful pitch?"
  • "Which 3 dishes are slowest out of the kitchen?"

Live in an afternoon.
Value the same shift.

01

Photograph your menu

Upload the menu you already print. ChefYoda reads every item, price, size and add-on – verbatim – and you review it in minutes. Taxes, service charge and tips configured once.

02

Seat a table and talk

Your team takes orders the way hospitality was meant to work – in conversation. The order builds itself, the kitchen sees it instantly, the bill is right the first time.

03

Watch it learn

ChefYoda learns your menu's nicknames, your room's acoustics, your guests' habits – and every service sharpens the answers it gives you about your own business.

No black boxes. No lock-in.
No selling your data. Ever.

01

Your data stays yours

Your sales, recipes and guest conversations are never sold and never shared with another restaurant. Full stop.

02

Numbers that can't lie

Every insight is computed from your own orders – the AI is architecturally unable to invent a figure. Ask where a number came from and it can show you.

03

Your team decides, it never does

The waiter confirms every order with the table before the kitchen sees it. Voids and comps need a manager. Nothing happens without a human yes.

04

Works with what you already run

ChefYoda runs the life of the table; you settle payment on whatever you use today. No rip-and-replace, no retraining your whole team.

05

It learns your restaurant

Your menu's nicknames, your room, your regulars' habits – ChefYoda gets sharper with every service, and what it learns stays yours.

06

Built by operators, not just engineers

Shaped by real P&L problems on real kitchen floors – QSR, café and casual dining alike – by people who ran food businesses at global scale.

Built by people
who ran the machine
you're fighting.

"I spent years building delivery economics for 500,000+ Uber Eats restaurant partners at global scale. I know exactly where the money goes – and exactly how to take it back."

– Karthik, CEO ChefYoda

Karthik Vasudevan, Founder & CEO of ChefYoda
Karthik Vasudevan
Founder & CEO, ChefYoda

Two decades at the intersection of food, technology, and operations at the highest level. Built and scaled $20Bn+ delivery businesses across dozens of markets. ChefYoda is built to get you the power and profits back.

Global Head of Commercial & Product Operations, Uber Eats – EMEA & APAC
CEO, Uber Eats Taiwan
Partner, Monitor Deloitte – Strategy & Operations
Deep technical team across voice, computer vision & predictive AI
Ankit Sharma, Senior Advisor to ChefYoda
Ankit Sharma
Senior Advisor

A globally recognised F&B leader with 20+ years across 40+ markets – turning creative ambition into commercially rigorous, executable strategy at founder speed. 100+ products launched and 1,000+ store outlets supported.

Innovation, Supply Chain & Quality – Taco Bell APAC, Costa Coffee EMENA & HelloFresh Europe
Growth advisory for franchisors and franchisees (e.g. In Good Company, Aditya Birla Group, Devyani Signature Foods)
Frontline experience as Chef at Marriott

The team behind ChefYoda brings together expertise in large language models, computer vision, and real-time logistics optimization – combined with direct experience running restaurant economics at Uber scale. We don't theorize about your problems. We spent years inside them.

The questions every operator asks first.

Is ChefYoda a POS?

No – and it doesn't ask you to replace one. ChefYoda runs the life of the table: voice order capture, kitchen tickets, coursing, the itemized bill, and the intelligence on top. You settle payment on whatever you use today.

What do I need to run it?

A phone or small tablet for the floor, a tablet for the kitchen, and wifi. Photograph your menu, review what ChefYoda read, set your taxes and service charge – most restaurants are live the same afternoon.

What about loud rooms and accents?

ChefYoda listens with a dictionary built from your own menu – including the nicknames your regulars use – and it learns from every correction your team makes. And nothing reaches the kitchen unconfirmed: the waiter sees the order build live and reads it back to the table.

What if it mishears something?

The order is on the waiter's screen as it builds – every line editable in a tap, every order confirmed with the guest before it fires. The AI drafts; your people approve.

Which languages does it speak?

English today, tuned per restaurant. Multilingual capture is on the roadmap – the architecture was designed for it from day one.

What does it cost?

A simple monthly subscription – no hardware lock-in, no percentage of your sales. Our first design partners get white-glove onboarding free. Book a demo and we'll talk real numbers for your format.

Where does my data go?

Nowhere. Your menu, orders and conversations power your insights and nobody else's – never sold, never pooled, never used to train a competitor's restaurant.

Bring hospitality back – and take the numbers with you.

Book a 30-minute demo. We'll run a real table on your own menu – voice to kitchen to bill – and show you the intelligence ChefYoda builds from a single service. Our first 10 design partners get white-glove onboarding free; you only pay the monthly subscription once you're live.

No commitment. No sales pressure. Just the numbers.