See CheffyIQ in Action

The problem

Restaurants lose $140K–210K per outlet, per month — and don't know it.

Kitchens are the highest-variance, least-visible part of any restaurant business. Here's where the leaks happen.

Inconsistent dishes

Same recipe, 5 chefs, 5 different outcomes. Customers churn silently. Aggregator ratings drop.

$60K–90K/mo

Hidden food waste

Burnt curries, dropped ingredients, remade plates. Your INV system never sees it.

$40K–70K/mo

Compliance risk

One viral hygiene complaint can cost a brand 6 months of sales. FDA fines are real.

Brand-ending

Until now, the only way to fix this was more managers, more clipboards, more spot checks — which doesn't scale and doesn't catch what happens when no one is watching.

CheffyIQ

AI for restaurant kitchens

Watch a 25-second tour

REC

12:42:18

CAM 03 · LIVE

Hearth & Stone · 12:42 PM

Brisket pot detected

Steam rising

REC

12:42:34

CAM 02 · PREP

VIOLATION DETECTED

Bare hands · no gloves

REC

12:42:51

CAM 01 · GRILL

BBQ Chicken · Recipe steps

Marinate chicken (4 hrs)

Skewer + season

Place on grill at 220°C

Char marks visible

Step 5: Plating · in progress

Recipe verified · 96%

REC

12:43:09

CAM 04 · PLATING

Plate match score

96%

Released to pass

Ready to see this in your kitchen?

Live in 7 days. No new hardware.

14-day free pilot · No credit card

Product tour · 0:28 · auto-loops

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How it works

No new hardware. No staff training. Live in 7 days.

Plug into your existing IP cameras. Our edge box does the heavy lifting on-site — only metadata leaves your kitchen.

No new hardware

We work with the IP cameras you already have. RTSP, ONVIF, or our edge box on your network — that's it.

Hikvision Dahua Axis CP Plus

No staff training

Chefs keep doing what they do. Coaching arrives privately on their phone — no classroom, no slowdown, no new tools to learn.

0·min onboarding for chefs Manager-only by default

Live in 7 days

Day 1 discovery → Day 2 edge box ships → Day 3–5 model trained on your dishes → Day 6 team intro → Day 7 monitoring live.

100% remote No hiring No code

New cameras
required

0 days

From sign-up
to live monitoring

0 ms

Average AI
inference latency

Edge uptime
(rolling 30 days)

The data path — camera to coaching, in under a second

Your video never leaves your kitchen. Inference happens on a small box that sits next to your NVR. Only structured events — not footage — sync to the cloud.

Your IP Cameras

RTSP / ONVIF
Hikvision · Dahua · Axis

CheffyIQ Edge Box

Jetson Orin Nano
YOLOv8 + custom ML

Cloud Dashboard

AWS US-East
WebSocket alerts

Video stays local

Only metadata + 15-second violation clips leave the kitchen

187ms inference

Faster than a chef can blink — alerts in real time

Works offline

Edge keeps running even if internet drops — syncs when back

Yes — it really works offline

Your kitchen doesn't stop when your internet does.

CheffyIQ is built around an edge-first architecture: a small NVIDIA Jetson box (the size of a paperback) sits in your kitchen and runs every AI model locally. The cloud is only for dashboards, syncing, and chef alerts — not for the AI itself.

Inference happens on the edge

YOLOv8, our custom recipe-step model, and the CLIP plate-match model all run on the Jetson Orin Nano in your kitchen. The cloud isn't in the loop — not even for a millisecond.

Events queue locally

If the internet drops, alerts still fire on the local network — the chef tablet, the kitchen display, and the manager's WhatsApp (over LTE failover if you have it). Events queue on the edge box's encrypted SSD until connectivity returns.

Auto-sync when back

When the link returns, every queued event, clip, and shift summary uploads in the background — in chronological order — with no chef intervention. The dashboard catches up automatically.

7 days of local event storage AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.3 in transit Optional UPS keeps it running through power blips

Under the hood

The three layers that make this work

Vision AI on the edge. A modern app stack in the cloud. Compliance baked in from day one.

Vision AI

Three models work together — one to see what's there, one to read the recipe sequence, one to score the final plate.

YOLOv8 — ingredient, gesture, PPE detection
SlowFast — cooking-action recognition
CLIP embeddings — plate-vs-reference scoring
Per-brand fine-tunes, OTA updates every 2 weeks

Stack

A boring, battle-tested cloud architecture — so your data and dashboards stay fast, available, and easy to integrate.

Laravel 11 + Filament admin
Python FastAPI for inference orchestration
PostgreSQL + S3-compatible clip storage
Reverb WebSockets for sub-second alerts
REST + webhook API for POS & BI tools

Compliance

Designed for the regulators you have to satisfy — and for the chefs whose privacy matters.

SOC 2 Type II in audit (2026)
FDA / HACCP / ISO 22000 report templates
Tamper-proof, crypto-signed audit pack
Automatic chef-face blurring (GDPR / CCPA)
Configurable retention (7–90 days)

Watch each capability

4 short clips, 4 superpowers

Each is <30 seconds. Click any to play.

CAM 02 · LIVE VIOLATION

Bare hands

0:24

Hygiene & PPE detection

Watch CheffyIQ flag a glove violation at the plating station and auto-coach the chef in real time.

CAM 01 · GRILL

BBQ Chicken · Recipe

✓ Brine 4 hr

✓ Season + grill

· Step 5/6 · live

0:28

Recipe step verification

See ingredient detection and step-sequence checking on a BBQ Chicken — layer by layer.

CAM 04 96% MATCH

SCORE

0:21

Plate consistency match

Final plated dish compared to the reference photo via visual embeddings — release or redo.

DASHBOARD · LIVE

Score

847

Dishes

Alerts

Chefs

No gloves at plating — Cam 02

0:30

Real-time alerts & dashboard

Walk through the manager dashboard, alert WhatsApp ping, and chef coaching clip in one flow.

A day in the life

From morning prep to closing time

Here's exactly what CheffyIQ does on a typical Friday at one of our customers' kitchens.

10:00 AM · Opening checklist

Chef Victor opens his app, taps the morning checklist. AI watches him sanitize surfaces. All 8 items verified in 11 minutes.

10:18 AM · Demand forecast

CheffyIQ pings WhatsApp: "Today expects +24% covers due to rain + Phoenix concert. Pre-marinate 4kg chicken now."

12:38 PM · First lunch alert

Maria touches a plated dish without re-gloving. Auto-coaching clip lands in her chef app within 8 seconds. She acknowledges, fixes the technique. Violation logged for the audit.

1:15 PM · Order Match catches a missing item

Toast POS shows Order #2421: 1x Brisket + 1x Coleslaw + 2x Brioche bun. AI sees only Brisket + 1 Brioche bun plated. Alert at the pass. Rebecca from sides station fixes it before the runner picks up. Saved $180 in re-makes & complaints.

3:30 PM · Shift handover

Lunch shift wraps. CheffyIQ generates a 1-page WhatsApp summary for the dinner manager: 142 dishes, 3 alerts (2 acknowledged), 2 chefs in top form, 1 needs coaching. Past handovers took 20 min to write.

8:30 PM · Peak hour

94 covers in 30 minutes. AI watches all 4 stations simultaneously. Catches that brisket is being released 7 min under target dum time. Holds the next 3 plates. Prevents an entire batch of bad reviews.

11:45 PM · Daily report

Owner Sarah gets a single Telegram message: "387 dishes, 96.2% compliance, 4 alerts, $1,840 wastage saved. Best chef: David (98). Coaching needed: Maria." She closes her phone and goes to bed.

	The old way Managers, audits, training	CheffyIQ AI vision + chef coaching
Coverage	Spot checks · ~15 min/day per outlet	Every shift, every dish, 100%
Fairness	Manager bias, "favorites" effect	Same rules for every chef
Speed of feedback	Days or weeks (next 1:1)	Seconds (auto-coaching clip)
Audit evidence	Paper checklists, manual photos	Tamper-proof video, crypto-signed
Cost	$30K–50K/mo per outlet (manager time)	$399/mo per camera
Scales to chains	Quality varies by region	One dashboard, 200 outlets
Time to setup	Months (hiring, training)	7 days · no hiring

Common questions

Things buyers ask before signing up

Do I need new cameras?

No. Most existing IP cameras work via RTSP. Hikvision, Dahua, CP Plus, Bosch — all supported. We supply an edge box that connects to your local network.

Where does my video go?

Video stays on your edge box. Only metadata + 15-second clips of violations leave your kitchen, encrypted in transit (TLS 1.3) and at rest (AES-256).

Will my chefs accept it?

Yes — once they see their own scores. Hearth & Stone had 2 chefs ask to leave in week 1. Both stayed after week 2 once they realized alerts came as private coaching, not public shaming.

What if internet drops?

Edge box keeps running. AI inference is fully local. When the connection comes back, queued events sync to the cloud automatically.

Does it work with my POS?

Toast, Square, Clover, Aloha, Lightspeed, Olo out of the box. Custom POS via REST API or webhooks — usually a 1-day integration.

What if I want to cancel?

Month-to-month. Cancel anytime from settings. We export all your data + reports as a zip. Edge box returned in our prepaid shipping label within 30 days.

See your kitchen through CheffyIQ's eyes.