Industry POS
That Isn't a P.O.S.
The industry's first agentic GM.
$0/mo
Typical independent's stacked SaaS bill
0%
Annual staff turnover in hospitality
0%
Food cost = a typical restaurant's profit margin
$0B+
Lost to employee theft and fraud yearly
Gaston lives in your
restaurant, not the cloud.
A Mac mini behind the host stand runs your restaurant's dedicated agent. It watches every order, every void, every reservation, every supplier invoice. And remembers. Your guests' stories, your staff's rhythms, your vendor patterns stay inside the building. Phones, iPads, and the kitchen display are just where Gaston speaks.
Cognitive memory, compounding
Powered by ATERNA CORTEX. Every shift makes Gaston smarter about this specific restaurant.
On-prem Mac mini · offline-first
Your data never leaves the building. Service keeps running when the internet drops.
Any device, any role
Host stand, server iPads, kitchen displays, owner's phone. All speak to the same agent.
Nine ways your restaurant gets smarter every night.
Every feature is an output of a single on-prem agent with compounding memory. Not a bolt-on AI. Not a chat sidebar. A digital GM that notices, remembers, and acts.
Morning Brief
At 6am, Gaston writes the owner a three-paragraph briefing. Yesterday's numbers with causal analysis, today's risks, tonight's VIPs with personal notes. Read it over coffee.
Proactive Watch
A small pill in the corner of every screen. Gaston nudges before anyone asks. Upcoming whales, dietary alerts, aging tickets, staff gaps. He watches so you don't have to.
Guest Whispering
The moment a VIP is seated, every tablet lights up with their story. Visit count, favorites, dietary notes, what they said to the server last time. Seat-level notes per guest.
Supplier Brain
Reads every invoice. Flags vendor drift, pulls comparable quotes from peers, projects the monthly hit. Saves 1 to 3 percent on food cost, often the whole profit margin.
Staff Pulse
Notices who's drifting and who's quietly crushing it, before the GM does. A compassion layer that scales what great managers do by instinct, across every shift.
Ghost Shift
A new server walks in. Fifteen minutes later, they know which regular prefers the Amarone and which table is the chef's parents. Institutional memory that survives turnover.
Tamper-Proof Ledger
Every order, void, comp, and manager override is permanently sealed. Insurance claims and IRS audits start with proof, not guesswork. Same cryptography that secures Bitcoin.
Mobile-First POS + KDS
Phones, iPads, or a fixed terminal. Sub-100ms order entry, real-time kitchen display, seat-level dietary flags on every ticket. Biometric session binding, no shared logins.
On-Prem + Offline-First
A Mac mini runs your agent inside the building. Data never leaves. Service keeps running if the internet drops. Auto-syncs cleanly when it's back.
Melk. vs. the old guard.
Pre-revenue. The kitchen is already running.
Melk. is in live operation at the founding restaurant. Every feature on this page is shipping into real service every day. The first paying restaurants come online this spring.
- Seat-level dietary on every kitchen ticket
- 6am Morning Brief every day
- Supplier drift caught on every invoice
- Tamper-proof ledger, every service
- Three independents onboarding in spring
- On-prem Mac mini deployment hardening
- Case studies + ROI benchmarks published
Our cognitive memory infrastructure. Every restaurant on Melk. gets its own dedicated agent that compounds, nightly, from everything that happens in the building. That's the moat no competitor can copy.
Replace five bills with one.
A well-run independent spends $1,500 to $3,000 a month stacking POS, reservations, scheduling, inventory, and CRM. Melk. collapses all of it and adds Gaston, your on-prem orchestration agent.
Essentials
For independents getting on the platform. Everything you need to run service.
- POS + kitchen display
- Table management with seat-level notes
- Reservations + guest profiles
- Tamper-proof ledger (every order sealed)
- Unlimited devices & users
- Email support
Studio
The full Gaston experience. Your on-prem orchestration agent for a single restaurant.
- Everything in Essentials
- Morning Brief · Gaston writes it at 6am
- Proactive floor awareness + VIP whispering
- Supplier Brain · food-cost drift detection
- Staff Pulse · the compassion layer
- Ghost Shift · 15-min onboarding memory
- Priority support + white-glove setup
Enterprise
For restaurant groups where cross-location memory compounds.
- Everything in Studio
- On-prem agent hardware (Mac mini, pre-configured)
- Network Intelligence · cross-location benchmarks
- Multi-location dashboard + rollups
- Custom integrations & API
- Dedicated CSM (from restaurant ops)
- SLA + priority incident response
All plans include a 14-day free trial. No credit card required. No contracts. Payment processing available as an optional add-on.
Ready to meet your digital GM?
Run the business. Let Gaston run the restaurant. Fourteen days free. The on-prem agent ships with your welcome pack.