Run a Smarter Kitchen.
No Cloud Hookup.

One-time setup on your hardware. Optional support after that — or self-manage and pay nothing. Your system keeps running either way.

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The problem with cloud AI in restaurants

Restaurant margins are thin — every wasted ingredient, every overstaffed shift, every stockout costs real money. The trade-show vendors selling "AI-powered" kitchens all share the same fine print: escalating subscriptions, customer data flowing to third parties, and systems that stop when you stop paying.

  • Inventory systems that charge monthly forever and hold your sales data hostage
  • Stockouts discovered mid-shift instead of predicted days ahead
  • Recipe and plate costing done by gut feel instead of by data
  • Customer ordering data flowing to vendor clouds
THE STARTER WORKFLOW

Inventory → Automatic Purchase Orders

One packaged job that pays for itself: the reorder loop, closed.

How it starts: Stock levels tracked per ingredient against reorder points you set — the system watches, you cook.

What you get: When stock hits its reorder point, a purchase order generates automatically with quantities and your supplier's pricing. You review and approve; the guesswork is gone.

Timeline: Proven end-to-end in a working system — menu costing, supplier pricing, auto-PO, and a 7-day traffic simulator that stress-tests your inventory before you spend a dollar.

Cloud-based AI rents you an assistant that lives in their building. TidalForge installs an assistant that lives in yours. Theirs learns for everyone; yours only knows your kitchen and your vendors.

The cloud alternative: inventory SaaS plus AI seats, $100+ every month, billed forever — with your sales and recipe data in someone else's cloud. TidalForge: $900 once — purchase orders generate on-site, on your machine, with or without the internet.

What runs on your machine

Ingredient-level inventory

Every dish tied to its ingredients. Stock decrements as orders happen; spoilage and waste become visible.

Auto purchase orders

Reorder points trigger supplier-priced POs automatically — approved by you, priced by your vendors.

7-day traffic simulation

Simulate a full week of service before it happens: staffing, stock, and profit per plate — stress-tested offline.

Setup from $900 on hardware you already have (need a box? a 32GB+ mini PC runs ~$400–550, spec sheet included). Optional support after that — or self-manage and pay nothing.

restaurants questions

No — it works beside it. Your POS rings the sale; this system handles what happens before and after: stock, suppliers, costing, and scheduling.

Because yours charges monthly forever and holds your data. Here: one-time setup, you own the box, and the system runs whether you ever pay us again or not.

Yes — QR-to-kitchen ordering with drink/food routing is built and running in our demo environment. It's a scoping conversation for your floor plan.

Ready to see it on your own files?

Bring one real workflow to the call. We'll scope it honestly and price it before you commit to anything.

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