MenuSifu announces restaurant automation partnership with Happy Cashier and Hestia at NRA 2024
2024年5月19日 - 6:16AM
MenuSifu is celebrating its 10-year anniversary as a foodservice
digital solutions provider by launching a series of new products
and partnerships that will transform restaurant automation.
Opening its largest presence at the National Restaurant
Association Show (NRA) in Chicago this year, MenuSifu is releasing
new products and announcing that it is a business partner and
investor in Happy Cashier and is partnering with Hestia, two
companies delivering groundbreaking restaurant
automation.
Happy Cashier is bringing digitization to the front of house
with virtual cashiers that help restaurants reduce costs and
maximize staff productivity. This technology, as reported by
the New York Times, CNBC, Fortune, and more allows guests to
be greeted, place their order and pay all through a remote
attendant, often actually located in another country. As many
restaurants struggle with both labor shortages and increasing
costs, this solution is already helping restaurants stay afloat and
productive across New York, with major expansion plans on the
horizon.
Meanwhile, in the kitchen, Hestia has designed an automated
cooking machine that makes a dizzying array of dishes and even
cleans itself. While still relatively new to the market with
customers in the US, Japan, and Hong Kong, these precision machines
have proven to use up to 50% less gas, 60% less oil, and 65% less
water than traditional cooking practices. A 66% labor cost
reduction has also been observed through the 10+ restaurants using
Hestia products to date, while allowing kitchen staff to be more
productive in other tasks.
MenuSifu is also releasing its own new products including POS
devices tailored for take-out restaurants (POS LITE), standard POS
system (POS MX), a POS Pay Pad, E-Menu, Loyalty and Marketing
software systems, and Waitlist & Reservation systems. The
technology allows Happy Cashier and Hestia to seamlessly integrate
their products into the MenuSifu POS system.
“Restaurants that choose to partner with MenuSifu have the
advantage of combining all this functionality under one roof,”
notes MenuSifu Founder and co-CEO Yu Li. “These devices, including
our partner products at Hestia and Happy Cashier, are all
interconnected making restaurant digitization and automation even
more cost effective.”
Connecting and automating points in the
restaurant
Years of product development and solving foodservice industry
pain points have now come together in these solutions from MenuSifu
and its partners for a wholistic digital solution package known as
“1+2+4+N”. The 1 refers to MenuSifu’s POS system that combines
ordering, payments, inventory, and cloud services to interconnect
restaurant systems. The 2 refers to the new partnerships with Happy
Cashier and Hestia that combine virtual servers in the front of
house with an automated cooking machine in the back of house. While
the 4 refers to the four different automation zones including the
virtual cashier, robotic cook, payments, and online ordering.
Finally, the N refers to a wide range of additional products from
MenuSifu that add advanced technology to restaurant settings while
reducing costs including ordering kiosks, scan-to-order
functionality, waitlist and reservation systems, and
more.
“I have always felt that not enough technology innovation is
happening in the restaurant industry,” said Yu Li. “When you
combine all of these technologies though, the restaurant becomes
completely reimagined, opening all kinds of new possibilities for
the things that matter most to customers – consistent and
top-quality food, great services, and affordable prices.”
Founded by researchers and engineers at Columbia University,
MenuSifu has steadily progressed development of inter-connected
digital restaurant solutions with a focus on Asian restaurants
around the world. The company now serves over 12,000 global clients
with its expanding technology services. Considered a mid-sized
startup company, MenuSifu now employs over 200 staff around the
world and over $30 mil in fundraising investments. Each year its
solutions serve an estimated 100 million tables.
The National Restaurant Association Show (NRA) is the world's
most influential showcase of foodservice innovation, with the 2024
show expected to draw over 2,200 exhibitors. The MenuSifu team and
co-CEOs Yu Li and Andy Chen will be at NRA
2024 in Chicago from May 18 – 21 at booth
6658 in the North Building. About
MenuSifu
MenuSifu, a global foodservice SaaS company, is at the forefront
of providing bespoke, intelligent, and efficient Point-of-Sale
(POS) and Online Ordering solutions to restaurants. MenuSifu’s
systems empower restaurants to operate efficiently and make
data-driven decisions, making it the preferred POS system for Asian
restaurants around the world.
Learn more at https://www.menusifu.com/
- MenuSifu at NRA 2024 booth 6658
MenuSifu
joy.li@ecoinst.ca