AI-POWERED SMART-VENUE OPERATING SYSTEM

Scan. Speak. Order.

Your guest scans a QR at their table or sunbed, speaks to an AI bartender that knows your menu, and places the order in seconds — like talking to a real waiter, except every seat has its own. No app, no queueing, no waving for staff.

ORDER → KITCHEN 30s
PAYBACK mo 1
AI BARTENDER yes
APP REQUIRED none
SEC/01
STATUSTHE PROBLEM
DEPT/floor · /kitchen · /ops
COST€10K/MO

Hospitality runs on paper, shouting, and luck.

A 300-sunbed beach bar with five order-taking staff on a typical shift can spend over €10,000 a month on people who mostly relay information — while customers wait, orders get miscounted, and kitchens get blindsided at peak.

P · 01 / WAIT CRIT

10–12 min wait times

From wanting a drink to order placed, customers wave for staff who can't be everywhere.

DROP~3 rounds/cover
P · 02 / ERROR WARN

Orders lost in transit

Verbal orders misheard, tickets lost, wrong tables served. Errors that cost repeat business.

COMP RATE~8%
P · 03 / LABOUR CRIT

€10K+/mo in relay staff

Order-takers are just messengers. The role becomes redundant the moment guests can self-serve.

FTE5
P · 04 / BLIND WARN

Kitchen blindsided at rush

No warning before peak. No queue visibility. Stations get overwhelmed, quality drops.

TELEMETRYNONE
P · 05 / DATA WARN

Zero operational data

Which zones generate revenue? Which items peak when? Today's answer: nobody knows.

SOURCEpen & paper
P · 06 / COVERAGE CRIT

Staff can't be everywhere

A 300-seat venue with 5 staff means 60 seats per person. Someone always waits too long.

RATIO60 : 1
SEC/02
STATUSOPERATIONAL
LATENCY~30s · end-to-end
SETUP~1 hour

Four steps. Thirty seconds. End-to-end.

No app to download. No staff needed for order-taking. A QR code, an AI bartender trained on your menu, a real-time kitchen, and a runner with a phone. Every event timestamped, every order tracked.

STEP · 01

Scan or tap

Customer scans the QR or taps an NFC tag at their sunbed or table. Full menu loads instantly — no app, no account.

EVENTSCAN / TAP · 5s
STEP · 03

Kitchen + runner

Order hits the right stations instantly. Kitchen assigns a runner. Customer sees live status.

EVENTRUNR · 5s
STEP · 04

Earn, come back

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EVENTLOYALTY
BEFORE EXCUSEME · MANUAL12 min
  1. Customer waves for help5 min
  2. Staff walks over2–3 min
  3. Takes verbal order1 min
  4. Walks back, enters into POS3 min
AFTER EXCUSEME · SYSTEM30 sec
  1. Customer scans or taps5 sec
  2. Talks to AI bartender20 sec
  3. Order confirmed, kitchen notified5 sec
  4. Runner auto-assignedauto
SEC/03
MODEAUTO-DETECT
COVERAGEANY LANGUAGE
KITCHENBILINGUAL TICKET

Every guest orders in their own language.

Your AI bartender catches the language from the very first word — and answers in it. German, Greek, Spanish, Mandarin, Arabic: no language picker, no translated menu to maintain. The guest just talks. And every order reaches your kitchen in their words and yours, side by side.

Table 14 · one phone, three guests LISTENING
DE · German · auto-detected
Zwei Aperol Spritz, bitte.
Sehr gern — zwei Aperol Spritz. Sonst noch etwas?
ES · Spanish · auto-detected
Para mí, una limonada y las patatas con trufa.
¡Marchando! Una limonada y patatas trufadas. ¿Algo más?
EL · Greek · auto-detected
Κι έναν φρέντο εσπρέσο, χωρίς ζάχαρη.
Τέλεια — ένας φρέντο εσπρέσο χωρίς ζάχαρη. Το στέλνω!
KITCHEN TICKET T-14
Aperol Spritz
Lemonade
Truffle fries
Freddo espresso
NOTE χωρίς ζάχαρη / no sugar
One order. Three languages in. Your language out.

Detected, not selected

No language menu to hunt for. The AI reads the guest's first message and switches instantly — even mid-conversation.

Mixed-language tables

Pass the phone around. Each guest orders in their own language; ExcuseMe folds it into one order for the kitchen.

Bilingual kitchen tickets

Special requests print in the guest's words and yours, side by side — so the line never has to guess.

SEC/04
SURFACEKitchen
RUNNERS4 ACTIVE
QUEUE0 STUCK

One glance. Every order. Every zone.

The kitchen OS is built to be glanced at from across a hot kitchen — orders grouped by status, stations colour-coded, runner state visible, queue depth enforced. Built for operators, not designers.

ALIVE QUEUE

Orders grouped by status

One-tap advance. Manager sees the whole floor at a glance.

BSTATION CTRL

Pause when the rush bites

Keep quality up, push queue back. Stations earn their air.

CRUNNER ROUTE

One tap to assign

Order lands on a runner's phone. Customer sees it's on the way.

DZONE TELEMETRY

Revenue per zone, live

Wait times, orders/hr, busiest items — by zone. New visibility.

SEC/05
MODEREVENUE GROWTH
AOVLIFT
MISSED ORDERS0

Cut costs. Then grow revenue on top.

The model: replacing relay labour pays for ExcuseMe in month one. Everything after is upside — more rounds per customer, higher order values, and a team redeployed into roles that scale with demand.

METRIC · 01
More

Rounds per customer

Effortless ordering means guests order when they want it — not just when they can finally flag someone down.

METRIC · 02
Higher
AOV

Trained upsells

The AI bartender always has the perfect suggestion. A natural upsell on every order, without ever feeling pushy.

METRIC · 03
0

Missed orders at peak

Every order that doesn't get taken is lost revenue. ExcuseMe processes every order instantly.

METRIC · 04
SAME
TEAM

Higher-value work

Order-takers become runners and kitchen support — handling the higher throughput.

Team transition

What happens to your + current staff?

More orders means more deliveries. ExcuseMe venues redeploy order-taking staff as additional runners and kitchen support — the roles that actually scale with demand. Your team grows into the throughput.

Order takerRunner+ throughput
Order takerKitchen support+ quality
Same teamHigher revenue+ margin
SEC/06
PLATFORM10 modules
SCALE15 → 5K TABLES
LAYEROPS

Not a QR menu. A full operations platform.

Generic QR menus show your items. ExcuseMe runs your operation — from the customer's phone, to the kitchen, to the runner's hands, to the analytics dashboard in your office.

F · 01 / AI LIVE

AI bartender, your persona

Train your AI on your menu, your vibe, your specials. Upsells, answers, sounds like your best bartender — 24/7.

F · 02 / VOICE LIVE

Voice ordering

Push-to-talk. Customers talk naturally — AI handles the rest. Perfect for sunbeds and poolside.

F · 03 / ZONES LIVE

Zone management

Colour-coded zones — VIP, Pool, Beach. Route orders to the right station. See zone revenue at a glance.

F · 04 / KITCHEN_OS — flagship LIVE

Real-time kitchen dashboard

New order alerts. One-tap status advance. Pause stations to control queue depth. Full modifier details. Never miss an order again.

F · 05 / RUNNER LIVE

Runner assignment

Kitchen assigns a runner when ready. Runner gets it on their phone. Customer notified.

F · 06 / ANALYTICS LIVE

Operations analytics

Revenue by zone, orders/hr, busiest items, wait times. AI-generated weekly insights — what changed, and why.

F · 07 / TRUST LIVE

Fraud prevention

Location verification at scan time. Kitchen sees a live badge confirming the customer is where they claim to be.

F · 08 / POS LIVE

Works alongside your POS

ExcuseMe is the ordering layer only. Your POS stays as it is — tax setup, end-of-day reports, accounting — all unchanged. No replacement, no retraining. On PRO and up, connect Square and orders flow straight into your POS — no re-keying.

F · 09 / ALERTS LIVE

Operational alerts to Slack / Discord / Telegram

New orders, kitchen pauses, fraud flags — straight into the chat tool your team already lives in.

F · 10 / LANGUAGE LIVE

Speaks your guest’s language

Detects each guest’s language from the first word and replies in it — no picker, no translated menu. Mixed-language tables become one order; tickets print bilingually.

SEC/07
SURFACECUSTOMER
THEMES7 PRESETS + CUSTOM
SCOPECHAIN + LOCATION

Looks like your venue, not ours.

Every tenant picks the palette, radius, weight, font scale, and header image — at the whole-business level and overridable per location. Use the built-in presets, or build your own from scratch. Light and dark toggle independently per surface. Your menu, your brand, our infrastructure.

See it in motion
Guest · light theme
Guest · dark theme
Your kitchen · same order, live
Guest · light theme
Guest · dark theme
Your kitchen · same order, live

One live order, end to end — the guest taps to order, your kitchen advances the ticket, and the guest’s phone updates itself to “ready”. The same order, shown in light and dark.

SEC/08
CALC300-table venue
PAYBACKMONTH 1
NET SAVING€4,836/MO

The maths writes itself.

The figures below assume your venue is past the adoption ramp — usually 2–4 weeks after launch, once guests are reliably using the QR. Until then, expect partial savings. The maths is for a 300-table venue with 5 order-takers; run it against your own seat count for a comparable figure.

ROI · 300-table venue, 5 order-takers, MAX plan
>// inputs
>relay_labour = 5_staff × €12/hr × 8hr × 22_days
>⤷ ~€10,560 / month

+saving = redeploy_3_of_5   +€6,336 / month
cost = excuseme_max(300_tbl × €5)   −€1,500 / month

NET SAVING €4,836 / month
Payback — month 1, once guest adoption stabilises
SEC/09
GUEST CARDNOT REQUIRED
SIGNUPNONE
SETTLEAT THE VENUE

Order in seconds. No card to reach for.

Guests never type a credit card to place an order — there's nothing to set up and nothing to abandon. They browse, order, and pay the way they always have: at your counter, on delivery, or on a tab. The single biggest drop-off point in QR ordering, simply gone — so more guests actually finish the order.

Nothing to type

No 16-digit card entry, no security challenge to clear for a €4 round. The order goes through in seconds — the way ordering a drink should feel.

No signup, no app

It opens in the browser the instant they scan — no App Store wall, no account form. The two other places QR ordering quietly loses people.

Pay like they always have

Cash or card at the counter, settled on delivery, or run on a tab. Guests pay your venue directly — familiar, frictionless, theirs to choose.

SEC/10
PLAN4 tiers
TRIAL30 DAYS · NO CARD
UNIT€/TABLE/MO

Start free. Pay per table as you grow.

Core ordering is free. Add AI for €2.50 per table. Add voice for €5. A 100-table PRO venue pays €250/mo — less than one staff shift per week.

Starter
0/MO
≤ 10 tables · 1 location
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  • QR ordering
  • Kitchen dashboard
  • Runner assignment
  • Zone management
  • Multi-language menu
MAX
5/TABLE / MONTH
Unlimited tables & locations
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  • Everything in PRO
  • Voice ordering (15 min/table · €0.08/min if over)
  • Unlimited AI conversations
  • AI zone insights
  • Priority support
Enterprise
Custom
500+ tables · chains
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  • Everything in MAX
  • SLA & uptime guarantee
  • On-premise, Square POS & bespoke integrations
  • White-label
  • Custom terms
  • Dedicated customer success manager

30-day trial includes 300 AI conversations and 100 voice minutes. Overages are optional — you set the ceiling.

SEC/11
DOCSObjections
ANSWERS10+

Questions we hear every time.

Q · 01"We already have a QR menu."
A QR menu shows your items. ExcuseMe runs your operations — zones, runners, kitchen capacity, and an AI bartender that actually takes the order. It's the difference between a PDF and an operating system.
Q · 02"We'd have to replace our POS."
You don't. ExcuseMe sits alongside whatever you have. Orders appear in your existing system via webhook. Tax setup, accounting, end-of-day reports — all unchanged.
Q · 03"Our staff will lose their jobs."
The economics work because order-taking staff move into runner and kitchen-support roles, handling the higher throughput faster ordering creates. The team grows into the demand rather than shrinks.
Q · 04"Our customers won't use it."
Adoption usually picks up fast — especially when the alternative is waving at an unreachable server. QR is the same gesture guests already use for menus and boarding passes.
Q · 05"Does the customer need an app?"
No. ExcuseMe opens instantly in the customer's browser — no App Store, no account required. App-download walls are where most competing QR systems lose customers; we skip that step entirely.
Q · 06"What if the internet goes down?"
ExcuseMe needs a live connection at order time — orders don't queue offline. For a beach venue, WiFi coverage across your site is a bigger concern than our uptime; we can advise on setup.
Q · 07"It's too expensive."
A 100-table venue on PRO pays €200/mo — less than one staff shift per week. If ExcuseMe replaces two hours of one staff member's time per day, it pays for itself. The model expects labour savings to show up inside the first month.
Q · 08"How is the AI trained on our menu?"
Your menu items are embedded into the AI's knowledge base as you add them. You can also add venue-specific knowledge — specials, pairings, history. It sounds like someone who actually knows your bar.
Q · 09"Do guests need a credit card to order?"
No. Guests browse, order, and pay at your counter, on delivery, or on a tab — exactly as they do today. There's no card to enter, no signup, and no app to install, which is exactly why more guests finish the order instead of giving up halfway.
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