For owner-operated restaurants & cafes
Same kitchen. Same customers. More profit.
malai reads your POS and your supplier invoices, finds the profit leaking in plain sight, and texts you the one move worth making.
Your trusted AI partner, working 24/7. One goal: more money in your pocket.
No dashboard. No login. Just visible profit, every month — one text is the whole signup.
malai · North Indian restaurant
Monday · 8:04 AM
8:11 AM
Two weeks later
Why malai exists
You're putting out fires. Closing at midnight. Opening at seven. Profit is the whole point — but there's rarely a moment to work on it.
That's where malai comes in: an AI partner doing the profit work in the background. No dashboards. No app. Nothing new to learn.
We handle the math. You handle the rest.
Proof, before promises
A real audit, anonymized. Every line names the dish, the move, and the dollars — from your own numbers, not industry averages.
Tighten lunch buffet pars & portioningFood cost running 50% vs 33% healthy target. Reversible in one week.
+$8,212/moRaise the Lunch Combo $1The bundle underprices its own parts — every curry costs more à la carte.
+$159/moSuggest garlic naan over plainSame volume, +$0.84 gross profit per swap. Staff script included.
+$108/moDeterministic math on your POS + invoices. AI explains — it never invents a number. Every text comes with a "math" button because you should check our work.
What malai does
Cost drift, commission drag, hidden low-margin bestsellers. We find them and hand you the fix.
Typical lift $400–$1,800/mo
Slow movers, wrong-day over-prep, buffet portions that drifted. Prep matched to real demand.
Typical lift $300–$8,000/mo
Buried signature dishes, smarter placement, better pairings. Ticket up — no price hike needed.
Typical lift $200–$1,200/mo
Why not the usual options
Your POS knows what sold. It can't see your invoices, so it can't know your margin. malai marries both and tells you what to do.
Built for operators who want to be analysts. You're running a restaurant. Your phone is the interface. Nothing to learn, ever.
They tell you what already happened, months later. malai texts the move while it's still worth making — at a fraction of the cost.
"Every owner I know can quote yesterday's sales to the dollar. Almost none can quote yesterday's profit. malai exists to close that gap — one text at a time."
malai founder · Saratoga, CA — built by operators, fluent in Indian, Mexican, Thai, pizza, cafe & donut economics. Serving independents across California.
The Data Pledge
You share the same two things you'd hand an accountant: a sales export and recent supplier invoices. Here's exactly how they're treated — in writing, signed, one page.
Used solely to analyze your restaurant. Never shared, never resold, never used to train a model.
Customer and employee details are deleted at ingest. We keep items, quantities, prices, dates — nothing personal.
Encrypted, US-based storage. One restaurant's numbers never touch another's.
You export the files yourself, so you know exactly what malai receives. No hidden pipes into your systems.
The Found Money Guarantee
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A full profit audit on your real numbers — like the sample above, with your dishes on it. Yours to keep either way.
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Weekly profit moves by text. Each names the dish, the dollars, and the confidence level. You test what you like.
$149/mo
Weekly moves, drift alerts when suppliers raise prices, and a monthly ledger of everything found and kept.
Any month malai doesn't surface at least $450 in opportunities, text STOP and that month is free. Cancel anytime — by text, of course.
One text. That's the signup.
Text AUDIT and a real person — not a bot farm — replies with two questions and gets to work. First move in your hands inside a week.
Text AUDIT to (669) 361-1140