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AI for restaurant chains & hospitality

Eight AI employees from one scoping call: how a 17-restaurant chain runs marketing, finance and franchising with Mesaya.

Hire the role. We run the AI employee. A named person is accountable.

Daily publishing, reviews, local SEO, paid media, invoicing, network operations, franchise development — the back office of a multi-unit restaurant group, staffed by managed AI employees and supervised by a Mesaya account manager. Novettino hired eight roles from a single scoping call; every deliverable is logged in their portal.

From $400 a month · live in about three weeks · free week in shadow mode · no setup fee
375graduated agents
7departments run this way
3 wksto a working role
From $400per month, per role
8roles live at Novettino
See how it works · 2 min 46

Who it's for, how a role runs, what it costs — from our CEO. Also in Español, Français, Italiano, Português, עברית, Русский and 中文 at mesaya.com/explainer.

The roles hired first

AI employees, each working a real job end to end.

Every role is configured from agents already running in production — never a blank prompt. Each one gets its own service account, limited to the permissions you grant, and works inside the tools you already run.

N
Nova
Daily publishing
On duty

Turns real photos from your restaurants into on-brand posts, every day, approved by a human before they go live.

How it works
  1. 1

    Photos in from the stores

  2. 2

    Per-location and brand-level accounts

  3. 3

    Approval gate on every post

Deliberate limit · nothing above your thresholds without a named approver.
M
Mira
Community & reviews
On duty

Answers every review in your voice within the day, flags the ones that need a manager, and tracks ratings by location.

How it works
  1. 1

    Google, Yelp and TripAdvisor monitored

  2. 2

    Responses in your tone, approved once

  3. 3

    Weekly ratings digest by location

Deliberate limit · nothing above your thresholds without a named approver.
S
Sol
Local SEO
On duty

Keeps every location's listing accurate and ranking — hours, menus, photos, posts.

How it works
  1. 1

    Google Business Profiles maintained per restaurant

  2. 2

    Menu and hours changes pushed everywhere

  3. 3

    Local posts published weekly

Deliberate limit · nothing above your thresholds without a named approver.
O
Otto
Finance & invoicing
On duty

Processes supplier invoices, matches them to deliveries, and keeps the books current across locations.

How it works
  1. 1

    Invoices captured and coded per location

  2. 2

    Matched to delivery notes, discrepancies flagged

  3. 3

    Weekly payables report

Deliberate limit · nothing above your thresholds without a named approver.
T
Théo
Franchise development
On duty

Finds and qualifies franchise candidates, follows up, and books the conversations with your team.

How it works
  1. 1

    Candidate sourcing to your profile

  2. 2

    Follow-up sequences until booked

  3. 3

    Pipeline report to the founders

Deliberate limit · nothing above your thresholds without a named approver.
Plugs into: Google Business Profile · Instagram and Meta · Toast · Lightspeed · QuickBooks · Google Workspace · franchise CRM — and any other role your business needs, from the same roster and the same account manager.
How it works

Three weeks from a scoping call to an AI employee at work. Then the next role.

Week 1

Discover & scope

A discovery call on your business and its bottlenecks; one role picked for the trial; a scoping call on systems, rules and approvals. Our audit agent reads your email and systems so the history is understood in days, without meetings.

Week 2

Deploy & train

A graduated agent configured for the role, pre-trained with your manager on examples and edge cases. Service accounts, permissions and approval gates set in your own systems.

Week 3 · free

Shadow mode

The agent works; a human approves everything consequential. Every deliverable logged with its approval chain. Outcomes verified at the source.

Month 2+

Earned autonomy

Approvals recede as results prove out; exceptions and samples stay reviewed. Your account manager stays in the loop — and scopes the next role.

Brand voice, every location

One voice across seventeen kitchens.

How it stays on-brand

Approval first, autonomy earned.

A restaurant group's risk with AI is a post, a review reply or an invoice that sounds wrong.

Per-location approvals for store managers; brand-level approvals for the founders
Tone, menu facts and pricing rules set once and enforced everywhere
Every post, reply and entry logged with who approved it and when

Novettino runs eight roles this way. The client agreed to be named; the portal is shareable on the scoping call.

You stay in control

Trust is earned — then extended.

How control works
  1. 1

    Shadow · week 1 — it drafts, you send.

  2. 2

    Ask first — it proposes, you approve.

  3. 3

    Routine — standard cases handled, exceptions to you.

  4. 4

    Autopilot — it runs; you get the digest.

Every action recordedPause in one tapRe-performed at our cost
Pricing

From $400 a month per role — and you only pay for completed work.

Simple as payroll, and a credit is always $1. No licenses, no implementation fee, month to month. Your first week is free.

Your plan
From $400

per month, per role. Each role is priced by its deliverables, so the minimum scales with the role.

Your credits at work
$1 = 1 credit

Every task has a credit price — a lead answered: 2, an invoice chased: 2, a listing published: 6. Itemized on your log, reported as KPIs, reviewed by you.

Busy month?
Top up

Add credit batches when you need more done. You set a monthly cap; the bill never passes it.

In aggregate, a role lands at a fraction of what the same work costs in payroll. Rates shown are examples; your order sets yours, and outcome pricing is available where results are measurable — collections on dollars recovered, lead response on booked meetings. You see the exact price for your roles on the scoping call.

Proof

We ran it on our own company before offering it to yours.

Customer zero

Modani — 375 agents, seven departments

We founded Modani, a national furniture retailer, in 2007, sold it in 2018, and bought it back in 2024 to rebuild it on AI. Revenue is up 39% year over year with less than 40% of its former workforce. Every Mesaya role was graduated there first, on a live P&L.

Live clients

Clients in this industry are live with Mesaya

They run several roles each, inside their own systems, with a named account manager on the account. We don't publish client names by default — a live portal demo and references are available on request.

Questions we get

Before the scoping call.

Will it post without approval?

Not unless you tell it to. Every role starts in shadow mode where a human approves each post; autonomy is extended per role as results prove out, and you can pull it back in one tap.

Per location or central?

Both. Store managers approve what concerns their restaurant; founders see the brand-level view and the digest. One deployment, per-location data and permissions.

How fast did Novettino go live?

One scoping call, eight roles configured, live within weeks. Thirty days in, marketing, finance, operations and franchise development were all running with logged, verified deliverables.

Reviews and reputation?

Mira answers every review in your voice within the day, escalates the ones a manager should see, and reports ratings by location weekly.

We're in Europe — is data handled properly?

Yes. A Data Processing Addendum covers processing, subprocessors and retention; EU-compatible processing is available; client data is never used to train anything.

Next step

Thirty minutes. One role. Free week.

Tell us where your team loses the most hours. We'll propose the first role, show you a prototype for your business, and have it working in shadow mode within three weeks.

Book a scoping call

Or tell us in writing — we reply within one business day.