Answers the phone
A concierge that knows your menu, hours and tonight's availability picks up, chats, and books — on the phone, the site, and by text.
The restaurant operating system
Every chair filled.
Every shift easier.
Reservations, host stand, ordering, kitchen, inventory and the books — one app that becomes whatever role you're working tonight, with an AI that quietly does the parts nobody wants to.
Built inside a working restaurant. No hardware to buy. No markup on payments.
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One app, every role
Open it as a host. Open it as a cook. It knows.
OpenChairs is a single app your whole team installs once. Sign in, and it morphs into the screen for your role — host stand, server pad, kitchen display, manager's desk, owner's books. Same data, same second, no syncing.
Host
Tonight46 / 48 seats
T1T2T3T4T5T6T7T8B1B2B3B4
Nguyen · 47:30 · window requestseat
Walk-in · 2quoted 15 min · textedT5 opens
Ortiz · 68:00 · birthday 🎂B3+B4
Server
T4 · Nguyenseated 14 min
2× Burratano basil on onefired
Hanger steakMRhold
Branzinosplit for twohold
Negroni · House redserved
✨ Guest asked about nuts — romesco has hazelnut. Flag added to ticket.
Fire mainsCheck
Kitchen
Hearth6 tickets · 11 min avg
T42 Burrata1 Hanger MR ⚠ nuts1 Branzino4:10
B21 Half chicken2 Leeks1:45
T73 Sourdough1 Tartare0:30
✨ Prep forecast: 38 branzino Saturday. You have 22. PO drafted.
Manager
Tonight so far8:42 pm
$6,240sales
131covers
27%labour
$48avg check
✨ Second seating is 12 covers over forecast. Cut one server at 9:30, not 9. Comps are up — 3 from T7, worth a word with Sam.
Owner
This weekvs last
$41.8ksales +6%
31%food cost −2
$7.9knet +18%
4.8★112 reviews
why was thursday slow?
Rain from 4 pm, and the Sea Dogs were home. Walk-ins were down 40%; reservations held. Consider a rainy-day happy hour push to your 1,900 guest list — I drafted one.
Front door to back office
One system, so nothing gets typed twice.
A reservation becomes a table, a table becomes an order, an order becomes a ticket, a ticket depletes inventory, and every dollar lands in the books. Automatically, because it's all one thing.
- 01
Reservations
Guests book on your site, on Google, or by asking the AI on the phone. Confirmations and reminders go out on their own. No-shows drop.
- 02
Host stand
A live floor map, an honest waitlist, and turn-time estimates that get smarter every night. Text the table when it's ready.
- 03
Ordering
Servers order at the table; guests can scan a QR to order and pay. Online pickup and delivery from the same menu, with no third-party cut.
- 04
Kitchen
Tickets arrive in cook order with allergies flagged and timers per dish. Course firing keeps the pass calm.
- 05
Inventory
Every sale depletes stock. Par levels, counts, and purchase orders in a tap. AI forecasts what Saturday needs before you ask.
- 06
Accounting
Sales, tips, labour, COGS and tax roll into books that close themselves nightly. Your accountant gets a clean export.
AI on every shift
A manager who never sleeps, never sighs, and costs less than a case of wine.
The goal is simple: the least amount of work for the most amount of profit. Anywhere a person is doing something a model could do better at 3 am, we hand it over. You stay in charge; you just stop doing paperwork.
Forecasts the week
Covers by hour, prep quantities, staffing — from your own history plus weather, events, and holidays.
Writes the boring words
Specials, social posts, review replies, job listings, 86'd item notices. In your voice, ready in seconds.
Watches the numbers
Food cost creeping, a server's comps, a supplier's price bump — you hear about it the night it happens, not at month end.
Runs the nightly close
Reconciles sales, tips and cash; books the entries; writes the manager's brief for the morning.
Engineers the menu
Which dishes make money, which just make work, and what to charge. Suggestions, never surprises — you approve.
Your restaurant's website
A site guests actually find. Live in five minutes, free forever.
Every restaurant gets you.openchairs.app — fast, beautiful, and built for Google: menu, hours, photos, map, reviews, and reservations that flow straight into your host stand. Bring your own domain whenever you like.
- Server-rendered, loads in under a second on a bad signal
- Structured data so Google shows your hours and menu
- Reservations, ordering, and the AI concierge built in
- Update the menu from your phone; the site updates itself
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Pricing
Pays for itself the first weekend.
One no-show saved, one comp caught, one Saturday prepped right. Start free, grow when the room does. No contracts, no per-cover fees, no markup on payments.
Seat
Get online tonight
$0/ month
no card needed
A beautiful website and reservation requests, free forever.
- Your own site at you.openchairs.app
- Menu, hours, photos, map — SEO done for you
- Reservation requests (60 / month)
- AI concierge answers guest questions 24/7
- 1 location · unlimited staff logins
Table
Front of house
$79/ month
billed $790 yearly
Fill the room and run the door without the clipboard.
- Everything in Seat, unlimited reservations
- Host stand: floor map, waitlist, turn times
- SMS & email confirmations and reminders
- AI phone & chat concierge takes bookings
- Guest book: notes, allergies, regulars
- Custom domain (yourrestaurant.com)
Kitchen
Front to back
$199/ month
billed $1990 yearly
Orders, tickets, inventory — the whole shift in one app.
- Everything in Table
- QR table ordering, online pickup & delivery
- Kitchen display with course firing
- Inventory, par levels, one-tap purchase orders
- AI prep forecasts & waste alerts
- Card payments at Stripe's rate, no markup
Empire
The whole business
$499/ month
billed $4990 yearly
The books close themselves. Every location, one screen.
- Everything in Kitchen, unlimited locations
- Accounting: P&L, cash flow, sales tax, tips
- Payroll & accountant exports
- AI general manager: nightly brief, weekly plan
- Menu engineering & dynamic pricing suggestions
- Priority support, we onboard your team
All plans include unlimited staff logins, the AI concierge, and a human on support. Payments processed by Stripe at Stripe's published rates.
Questions
The ones we get at the pass.
Do I need new hardware?
No. OpenChairs runs in the browser on whatever you already own — phones, tablets, an old laptop at the host stand. For kitchen displays we recommend any cheap tablet. Card readers are Stripe's, which we ship to you.
What does it cost to take payments?
Stripe's standard rate. We add nothing on top, on any plan.
Can I bring my own domain?
Yes, on Table and up. Point it at us and we handle the certificate, redirects, and SEO. Your free openchairs.app address keeps working.
What if I already use OpenTable / Toast / Square?
Start with the free website and reservations alongside what you have. When you're ready, we import your guests, menu, and history and you switch one shift at a time.
Is the AI making decisions for me?
It makes recommendations and drafts; you approve. The exceptions are things you explicitly turn on — like letting it take reservations by phone.
Who built this?
Flamesoft, with a working restaurant as the lab. Everything ships because a real service needed it.
Your restaurant, online tonight.
Free website and reservations in five minutes. The rest when you're ready.