For investors · Houston, Texas

Enterprise technology for small and mid-size restaurants.

Our own restaurant runs its phone, tables, counter, website and guest texts as one system. We're raising $1M to run the front of house for the next restaurants.

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The pitch in 51 seconds, filmed outside the restaurant it runs

What it's doing right now

● Real numbers from our restaurant, Oct 2026
01 · Placed by the guest100%

of guest orders are placed by the guest on their own phone

02 · Orders a month~800

Every one placed by the guest since October. Sales held steady.

03 · No missed callsEvery call

answered, even after we close. 91 phone orders taken by the AI since Sep 1.

04 · No unpaid ticketsZero

unpaid tickets. Every order is paid before it cooks.

05 · Growth2x

sales in 18 months under the current family. Reviews 400 → 965, 4.5 stars.

06 · Demand2

Houston restaurants signed on

The market

400,000 independent restaurants. None of them can afford a head office.

Chains have people who run their phones, ordering, marketing and numbers. Independents have the owner. They're also the restaurants under the most pressure.

400,000+independent restaurants in the US
3-5%typical net margin
~42%were unprofitable last year
~30%taken by delivery apps on every order they touch

For scale: Owner.com (online ordering and marketing for restaurants) reached about $80M a year in revenue and a $1B valuation across about 10,000 locations, on one slice of this.

What's live

One connected system. Every screen is from the live restaurant.

At the table

Guests order and pay from the table.

Scan, order in their own language, pay with Apple Pay. The ticket prints in the kitchen with the table and every note.

100% of guest orders placed by the guestPaid before cooking
Table ordering menu at our own restaurant
Haniya, the AI host, listening at the table
On the phone

An AI host that takes the order into the register.

Haniya answers every call, writes the order into Clover, texts a pay link and knows regulars by their number. English, Urdu, Hindi and Spanish.

91 phone orders since Sep 1Every call answered
Haniya, the AI host, on the restaurant's reception screen
On the owner's phone

The owner runs it from his phone.

A morning text, an alert when something needs him, and voice control of the menu. The dashboard shows where every order came from.

20 always-on watchers99 automated workflows
The owner dashboard: where every order came from over 30 days, money blurred

The owner's real dashboard. Dollar amounts blurred.

Hear it

Real calls. Real restaurant.

The owner's father runs the menu by voice, in English and in Urdu. Pauses shortened, nothing else edited.

OWNER · ENGLISH · 11 SHaniya, remove lemonade for today.

"Done. Lemonade is off everywhere for today and will be back on at 9 PM tonight."

OWNER · URDU · 10 SHaniya, lemonade menu mein phir se daal do.

Put lemonade back on the menu. She puts it back on the phone line, the menu and Clover.

A REAL CALLER · OCT 14, 2026I love this AI. It works really well.

Said unprompted, at the end of a paid pickup order.

Recording kept private for the caller's privacy.

The model

Build it in a real restaurant. Then make it a setting.

01

Prove it at home

Every piece runs in our own restaurant first, on real guests and real money, before another owner sees it.

02

Set up in person, paid on results

We set it up in the restaurant and run it with the owner. No setup fee, and for the first two months you only cover what the technology costs to run. Then we earn only on orders we bring.

03

Configuration, not construction

Each restaurant's menu, hours, languages and rules move into one settings file, so restaurant five costs a fraction of restaurant one.

Phone AI companies answer one line. We run the whole front of house on one menu and one guest list. Clover-first: Toast and Square now ship their own voice agents, Clover has no equivalent AI layer, and our flagship runs on Clover.

The founder

Engineer and restaurant family, in one person.

Abbas Zoeb, founder of AZ Restaurant Partners
  • Former Google software engineer.
  • Built Hard Rock Cafe's first AI agents, including the layer that keeps agents safe and observable at scale.
  • His family owns Wok & Karahi in Spring, Texas. He works the Friday night shift and builds the system that runs it.
  • Solo founder, and we say so. The offset is scope: standard deployment, custom work by exception, and the config layer that makes the next restaurant cheap.

Abbas on LinkedIn

The raise

Raising our first round.

$1,000,000the round
24 monthsof runway
  • Turn the system into configuration, so a new restaurant starts from a settings file
  • Take the founding cohort from two restaurants to five
  • Publish the first result from a restaurant we don't own

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02We send the deck and the numbers behind this page.
03Come to the restaurant and watch a dinner service run itself.
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Questions

What investors ask us

How much are you raising?

$1,000,000 to cover 24 months: turning the system into configuration, taking the founding cohort from two restaurants to five, and the first hires.

Is it live, or a demo?

Live, in our own restaurant in Houston. 100% of guest orders are placed by the guest, every call is answered, even after we close, and about 800 orders a month have been placed by the guest, none by staff, since October, while sales held steady.

How does it roll out at a new restaurant?

We set it up in person and run it with the owner. Restaurants pay no setup fee and sign no contract, and for the first two months they only cover what the technology costs to run. After that, we earn only on orders we bring them.

Why Clover?

Our flagship runs on Clover, and Clover has no equivalent AI layer of its own. Toast and Square now ship voice agents for their own restaurants, which leaves the rest of the market open.

Who's the founder?

Abbas Zoeb, a former Google software engineer who built Hard Rock Cafe's first AI agents. His family owns Wok & Karahi, where every system runs before a client sees it.

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