The Wi-Fi Intelligent Menu

Your best waiter,
at every table.
All night.

Garçon is an AI waiter that lives inside a QR code. Guests scan, talk to it in their own dialect, order straight to the kitchen, pay only for what they ate, and walk out with points in the wallet they already carry. No app. No download. No account before they can see the food.

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Garçon

Table 12 · Zahra Kitchen

TONIGHT AT ZAHRA

Two mint lemonades, one price

Until 11pm · tap to add

YOUR USUAL · 4TH VISIT

☕

Flat white, extra shot

75 EGP · 120 kcal

Ask Garçon anything…

Origin

Digital menus made restaurants faster. And poorer.

Hoopoe Digital rolled out ordinary digital menus in restaurants across Egypt. They worked. Guests liked them. Service got quicker. Then the operators looked at their numbers and found the last thing anyone expected: the average table was spending less.

The reason was human. A good waiter does a lot of invisible commercial work — reading the table, suggesting a starter while you're still deciding, mentioning the special, asking whether anyone left room for dessert. None of it is printed on the menu, and all of it lands on the bill in a way guests enjoy rather than resent.

A digital menu is a catalogue. It doesn't read the table. By replacing the waiter with a screen, those restaurants had quietly deleted their best salesperson from every table in the building.

The insight the product is built on

Garçon exists to give the waiter back — not the person, but the behaviour. The suggesting, the recommending, the reading of the table. At every table at once, in the guest's own language, with no day of staff training.

What a screen removes from a table

Paper menu + waiter Digital menu, no waiter behaviour Digital menu + Garçon

Illustrative. Shape of the effect only — no measured figures are shown or implied. Verified performance data is shared under NDA on request.

The platform

Order, Pay & Loyalty — with Marketing and AI.

Five things, one QR code, one browser tab. Everything a guest does sits on top of the restaurant's existing point-of-sale, so nothing is re-keyed and nothing is invented.

Order

The full menu with real photographs, prices, calories and every add-on. The order goes straight to the kitchen — nobody has to catch a waiter's eye first, and nothing gets lost between the table and the pass.

Pay

Each guest pays from their own phone — either the exact items they ate, or any amount they choose. Independently, simultaneously, no card machine going round eleven people.

Loyalty

A pass in Apple Wallet or Google Wallet that updates its own balance and works at every branch of the brand — including branches where Garçon isn't installed.

Marketing

Hero banners, campaigns and offers aimed at people who have already eaten with you — plus a notification when a pass holder walks near a branch. A direct channel no aggregator sits inside.

AI

An AI waiter across all of it — answering questions, recommending, cross-selling and taking the order in conversation, in the dialect the guest actually speaks.

The AI Waiter

It speaks properly. That's the moat.

Anyone can put a chatbot on a menu. What's hard is dialect. Garçon handles Egyptian, Gulf and Levantine Arabic as they're actually spoken — slang included — and switches language on its own based on what the guest used. Including code-switching: starting a sentence in Arabic and finishing it in English.

Layer one · structural

Suggestion built into the flow

The moment a burger goes in the basket, the flow offers what goes with a burger. No conversation required.

Layer two · conversational

Suggestion woven into hospitality

The AI folds the recommendation into dialogue, so it reads as service rather than as an upsell prompt.

“That one's quite rich — most people have it with the mint lemonade.”

How we handle allergens

Garçon never gives a blanket safety assurance. It states what an item contains, offers to remove it, and flags the table to the kitchen. Grounded in the live menu — never guessed.

Garçon EGYPTIAN · CODE-SWITCHING

Split payment

Four people. One check. Four separate payments.

Everyone scans the same table code on their own phone. Each person either ticks the items they personally ate or types an amount they want to cover, then pays through their own transaction. The check closes when the total is covered.

This is not one person paying and chasing the group afterwards. It is not a payment link passed round a group chat. Every diner has their own session, their own selection and their own receipt.

01The pause when the bill lands and nobody moves.
02The friend who always puts it on their card and never gets it all back.
03The one who had a starter, a main, dessert and two drinks suggesting you “just split it evenly”.
04Family and iftar tables where an even split is neither fair nor practical.
05Eleven people, one card machine, going round.

Zahra Kitchen TABLE 12 · CHECK #4471

Remaining on this check

1,340EGP

Nour

320.00

Youssef

410.00

Habiba

285.00

Karim

325.00

Four sessions open · each paying independently

Illustrative interface · fictional venue · amounts for demonstration

Loyalty & wallet

Recognition, not a stamp card.

The loyalty pass lands in Apple Wallet or Google Wallet — the same place people keep boarding passes. No restaurant app to download, no card to lose, no phone number recited at the till.

Self-updating

The balance changes in real time. The guest never refreshes anything.

Every branch

Because it lives in the wallet rather than inside Garçon, it works brand-wide — including branches that haven't installed Garçon at all.

Near a branch

Pass holders can receive an offer when they're physically close to one of your venues.

Next visit

The menu opens already reordered around what they actually order. “Your usual flat white?” — and it means it.

Zahra Kitchen WALLET PASS

Points balance

Nour H.Member since 2025

For operators

You finally own the relationship with your own dine-in guests.

Every session produces a verified profile and real purchase history that belongs to you, not to an aggregator. Eight measures answer eight different questions about how it's working — not vanity metrics.

OWNER DASHBOARDLAST 30 DAYS

Upselling index

24.6%▲ 5.1 pts

Revenue that comes in above the cheapest way to order a dish — bigger portions, add-ons, upgrades a guest chose along the way.

EGP 74 uplift per order · EGP 23 per guest

At floor priceUplift

Cross-selling index

31%▲ 4 pts

How often a guest takes what Garçon suggests alongside what they're already ordering — and which dishes owe their sales to being suggested at the right moment.

EGP 61,400 from suggestions · 11% of revenue

Average order value

EGP 328▲ 8.6%

The number you already run the business on — dine-in and takeaway kept apart, since a shared table isn't one person collecting a bag.

1,790 completed orders · EGP 118 per guest

Split payment index

41%▲ 6 pts

How often a group settles one bill between several people, in their own hands — never a conversation with your staff about who owes what.

3.26 people paying per split table

Loyalty index

41%▲ 3 pts

The share of guests who order more than once — and whether redeeming a reward actually brings them back again.

61% ordered again after redeeming points

AI usage index

29%▲ 6 pts

How many guests actually talk to Garçon before they order — and what they spend against the ones who don't. The difference between an assistant and a digital menu.

EGP 360 assisted vs EGP 298 unassisted

Registration mix

455▲ 13%

Every guest identifies themselves before ordering — by phone, Google or Facebook — the foundation of a customer list that belongs to you, not a delivery platform.

47% social sign-in · up 15 pts since February

PhoneGoogleFacebook

Offers conversion

35.1%best offer

Seen, tapped, bought — for every promotion, so you know which ones earn and can stop paying for the ones that don't.

EGP 84,200 from 4 live offers

Offer	Seen	Tapped	Bought	Conversion	Revenue
Free dessert over EGP 300	4,120	610	214	35.1%	EGP 38,400
2-for-1 mocktails	3,880	402	121	30.1%	EGP 21,900
Combo upgrade + EGP 40	1,970	148	41	27.7%	EGP 9,300
15% off first order	2,540	388	96	24.7%	EGP 14,600

Eight numbers. Every one ties back to a real order, a real guest or a real table.

Guardrails

What Garçon is not.

We are specific about this, because the category we've left is crowded and the category we're in is not.

A QR code menu

A QR menu replaces a piece of paper. Garçon is a conversation channel — the same category of thing as ChatGPT or Claude — that happens to be trained on one restaurant's menu, prices, allergens and live stock.

A mobile app

There is nothing to download. No app store, no install screen, no icon on a home screen, nothing to persuade anyone to keep.

A delivery platform

Garçon is for people physically inside the venue. It is explicitly the alternative to aggregator economics, not another aggregator.

A robot with a face

The AI is invisible infrastructure. It shows up as good service, not as a character on a screen. If a moment still works with the word “AI” removed, it's on-brand.

A generic chatbot

It is grounded in one restaurant's live menu, prices, stock and allergens — and it takes real orders and real payments, not just answers questions.

A staff replacement

It removes the mechanical part of the job — transcribing, repeating specials, walking the card machine round the table. Not the part machines can't do.

Where we stand

Garçon does not fire waiters. Our waiters are relieved, not replaced — the AI handles suggestion and settlement, the floor keeps the welcome, the judgement and the evening.

Who it's for

Sold to restaurants. Experienced by everyone at the table.

The guest

Nobody to flag down.

Order the moment you're ready, from where you're sitting
A real menu — photographs, prices, calories, every option
Ask a question in your own words and get a real answer
Pay for exactly what you ate, at the same time as everyone else
A pass in the wallet you already use, that updates itself
A menu that opens already knowing what you like

The operator

A revenue tool that also saves cost.

Suggestion at every table, every service — no bad shifts
The same standard of upsell in every branch
Verified guest profiles and purchase history you own outright
A direct channel to your dine-in guests, commission-free
No app to build, publish, update or market
Prices change in the POS and appear instantly everywhere

The floor

The mechanical part, gone.

Peak hours are chaos: queues, an overwhelmed floor, a backed-up kitchen. Garçon takes the transactional load — order taking, suggesting, payment — off the floor entirely.

It doesn't touch the manager's authority either. The AI handles suggestion; the floor still handles exceptions, hospitality and judgement — the work that actually makes someone's evening.

Your best waiter,at every table.All night.