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Your restaurant's own branded ordering, kitchen, loyalty, and marketing system —
without giving your customers away to third-party apps.

Food OS by Signal House Ventures is a modular operating system for food businesses. Branded ordering, kitchen reliability, loyalty + coupons, and optional AI agents — all in one place. Toggle modules on per location, keep your customer data, never get locked in.

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Real complaints from real shops — and how Food OS answers them.

If you've said any of these in the last six months, this page is for you.

"DoorDash takes 30%, and I don't even know who my customers are."
Branded ordering on your own site. Your customer list, your data, exportable.
"Last week the kitchen never got an order. Customer came in furious. We had no idea."
Kitchen ticket pipeline with email + console fallback, retry queue, and an alert tile. We tell you, not your customer.
"My loyalty's on one app, my coupons are on another, my email list is in a spreadsheet."
Coupons + Slice Club loyalty in one dashboard. Customers identify themselves by email — no app to install.
"POS company keeps charging me for stuff I don't use."
Modules turn on per location. Pay for what you use. Starter is just ordering.
"We 86'd anchovies on Saturday and someone ordered them anyway."
An audit agent watches admin vs. public menu sync. The 86 toggle hides items immediately.
"I'm tired of monthly fees from six different SaaS tools."
One bill, one login, one platform. SHV runs the infrastructure.
"I don't want to replace my whole POS just to take online orders."
You don't have to. Pickup ordering works standalone today; POS connectors are next.
"I tried AI for the menu and it was creepy."
Real AI is opt-in, off by default, requires owner approval before any text reaches a customer. We start with deterministic agents that just do their job.

Honest split: live now vs. on the roadmap.

We don't dress up coming-soon work as live. Here's exactly what runs in the demo — and what's next.

Live · demo-ready

You can see this run today

  • Tenant-branded customer site (your colors, your name, your domain)
  • Online ordering for pickup, with modifiers + sizes + 86 toggle
  • Cart with promo codes
  • Pay-at-pickup checkout (the public demo runs in cash mode; Stripe or Square processing is wired per shop at launch)
  • Coupons (TUESDAY10 ships in the demo)
  • Slice Club loyalty (1 point per dollar, ladder rewards)
  • Order confirmation receipt with kitchen status pill
  • Owner dashboard order queue with auto-refresh
  • Per-order kitchen ticket pipeline (email + console fallback)
  • Kitchen reliability panel: failed-ticket queue, retry depth, alerts
  • Manual retry + acknowledged controls
  • Deterministic ops agents (order monitor, ticket retry, 86 checker, tenant health) with one-click "Run agents now"
  • Per-tenant module toggles — your other locations don't have to use the same features
  • Audit log on every order, ticket, and agent run
Coming soon · on the roadmap

Named, planned, not live yet

  • Birthday club (next build slice — Phase 3B)
  • E-gift cards (Phase 3C)
  • Kitchen Display Screen (KDS) tablet app
  • Receipt-printer integration (PrintNode)
  • POS connectors — Square first, then Toast / Clover
  • Stripe Connect centrally-managed multi-tenant payouts (base Stripe or Square direct-to-shop is already set up during onboarding today)
  • Real LLM provider wiring (Anthropic / OpenAI / Gemini), opt-in, with per-tenant cost cap
  • SMS + email marketing campaigns
  • Customer accounts with saved cards + 1-tap reorder

One reusable platform.
Built around your shop.

Food OS is a white-label restaurant operating system. The same core that runs the Riverstone Pizza demo also runs a cafe, a food truck, or a deli — with your colors, your menu language, your loyalty program name, and only the modules you actually need turned on. We rebuild the surface around your brand; the platform underneath stays the same.

SAMPLE BRAND · PIZZERIA Brick Oven Bros Hand-tossed pies. Family recipe. Pickup ready in 12.
What changes Red/orange pizzeria brand · pizza-first menu · "Brick Club" loyalty · classic Tuesday-special coupons
Same Food OS core Branded ordering · kitchen ticket pipeline · owner dashboard · audit trail · per-tenant data isolation
SAMPLE BRAND · CAFE Harbor Bean Cafe Slow-roasted coffee. Quiet corner of the dock.
What changes Calm navy/cream cafe brand · coffee + pastry menu · seasonal-promo language · catering inquiries on by default
Same Food OS core Pickup ordering · loyalty points · kitchen reliability · customer list export · same dashboard
SAMPLE BRAND · FOOD TRUCK Route 31 Tacos Street tacos. Wherever the truck lands today.
What changes Bold green/yellow street brand · QR menu at the window · limited-time coupons · mobile-first checkout
Same Food OS core Branded ordering · order queue · ticket pipeline · the modules a truck doesn't need stay off
SAMPLE BRAND · DELI Lakeside Deli Co. Lake-fresh subs. Office catering done right.
What changes Blue/white local deli brand · lunch ordering · office-catering inquiries · "Lake Loyalty" rewards · customer list
Same Food OS core Same ordering engine · same kitchen reliability · same dashboard · same audit + customer data ownership

Sample brands shown for demonstration. We build the system around your real brand, menu, workflow, and package.

Your brand. Your customers.
Not somebody else's app.

Customers order from your site, with your colors, your name, your domain. Mobile-friendly. Works on any phone. No download, no third-party logos, no algorithm steering them to a competitor.

Riverstone Pizza customer ordering site on mobile, showing the brand-colored hero with Order Online, View Menu, and Use TUESDAY10 buttons

Make sure the kitchen
actually got it.

Every order opens a tracked ticket. Email + console fallback so the kitchen always has a paper trail. If a ticket fails to send, your dashboard shows it — not the angry customer at pickup. Failed tickets retry automatically; staff can mark received with one tap.

Food OS kitchen reliability dashboard showing 100% ticket delivery in the last 24 hours, an empty retry queue, the most recent successful kitchen signal timestamp, lifetime ticket count, and printer / KDS placeholders for the next phases

Bring them back
without paying a third party for the privilege.

Run a Tuesday coupon, build a points-per-dollar loyalty club, give your regulars a reward at the rungs you choose. No app, no QR, no data hostage situation. Customers identify themselves by email — the same email they'd type at any other ordering site.

Riverstone Pizza customer menu showing the TUESDAY10 promo-code banner above the categories and the Slice Club loyalty rate, alongside the actual menu items

Your operating system,
in one place.

Live order queue. Kitchen reliability panel. Coupons + loyalty editors. Agent run-now. Branding settings. One login. The owner sees everything; staff see what they need.

Riverstone Pizza operating system dashboard home showing five demo-story cards (New orders, Kitchen reliability, Coupons & specials, Slice Club loyalty, Agents) plus a green Kitchen Alerts tile reading All tickets delivered or in flight

Turn on what you need.
Skip what you don't.

Every feature is a module. A pizza shop doesn't have to pay for catering. A bakery doesn't have to pay for a KDS. A food truck doesn't have to pay for delivery dispatch. Your other locations can have a different module mix. Same platform, your choices.

Acme Pizza dashboard showing the Coupons module turned off, with the message that the coupons module is not enabled for this tenant — proves per-tenant module isolation across the same platform

Helpful, predictable,
and never creepy.

The agents we ship today are deterministic — they're rule-based, not LLMs. Order monitor, ticket retry, 86 checker, tenant health. Real AI (menu descriptions, coupon ideas, review replies) is opt-in, requires your approval before customer-facing text goes out, and sits behind a per-month cost cap you set. AI is a switch you can flip later, not a tax we collect today.

Food OS Agents dashboard showing five deterministic agent cards (Order monitor, Kitchen ticket retry, 86 checker, Tenant health, Menu description mock AI) with a yellow banner reading No real AI calls are enabled yet

Don't want to replace your POS?
Don't.

Food OS works alongside your POS today via email-only ticketing. Native connectors are coming — Square first. We're building the bridge so you don't have to choose between "a real ordering site" and "the POS your team already knows."

Diagram showing Food OS sitting alongside an existing POS via planned connectors. Food OS handles online ordering, kitchen tickets, and loyalty; the existing POS keeps in-store register, card payments, and the menu of record. Square is the first planned connector, with Toast, Clover, and Lightspeed to follow.

Real humans. Real product.
One bill.

Food OS is built and run by Signal House Ventures. We do the hosting, the updates, the security, the support. You text us when something's wrong. You don't get a ticket queue at a 1-800 number.

Signal House Ventures also offers white-label software and systems builds beyond Food OS — websites, portals, ordering systems, dashboards, AI tools, and internal business software that can run under your company's brand. Same posture as Food OS: modular, owned by you, supported by real humans.

Want this same white-label approach for a different industry or workflow? See White-Label Software & Systems.

Food OS · Built and run by Signal House Ventures · Real humans. Real product. One bill.

Twenty minutes. Four steps. End to end.

A 20-minute call walks the demo restaurant through one full ordering flow on your phone, then shows the back of the house from the owner's seat.

Step 1

Order from your customer's phone

Open the demo restaurant on your phone. Add a pizza, choose toppings, drop in promo code TUESDAY10, place a pay-at-pickup order. The public demo runs in cash mode; your launched shop runs with Stripe or Square processing wired direct to your account.

Step 2

See the order land on the dashboard

Within a second, your operating system shows the new order, the kitchen ticket status, and the loyalty points the customer just earned. No refresh needed.

Step 3

Watch the kitchen reliability story

The reliability panel shows that the email ticket reached the kitchen. If anything failed, it would surface here — not in a customer's phone call.

Step 4

Run the deterministic agents

One click runs the four agents (order monitor, ticket retry, 86 checker, tenant health). You see exactly what they did and any flags they raised. No magic, no surprises.

Start small. Add modules as you grow.

Pricing is custom and introductory while we onboard pilot customers. Every package includes hosting, updates, and direct support from the SHV team. Talk to us about a tier that fits your shop.

Starter

Branded ordering, ready tomorrow

Introductory pilot pricing

Branded ordering site · menu / cart / checkout · payment processing setup (Stripe or Square, direct to your account) with optional cash pickup · basic dashboard · kitchen email tickets. For a new shop or popup that needs an ordering page tomorrow.

★ Growth

Bring regulars back

Introductory pilot pricing

Starter (online ordering + payment processing setup) + coupons + Slice Club loyalty + customer list + QR-code promos + birthday club (when shipped). For an established shop that wants to bring regulars back.

Ops

Don't miss a ticket again

Introductory pilot pricing

Growth (with payment processing already wired) + kitchen reliability panel + agent monitoring + KDS (when shipped) + multi-printer routing (when shipped). For a busy shop where missed tickets are expensive.

Custom OS

Multi-location + integrations

Custom quote

Ops + POS connector + custom modules + AI agents + multi-location dashboard. For a growing operator with two or more shops and integration needs.

Pricing is custom and introductory. We're building Food OS with our pilot customers. Talk to us about a tier that fits your shop. Some modules above are on the active build roadmap but not yet live in the demo — see the "Coming soon" section above for the honest split.

Plain answers to the questions owners actually ask.

Do I have to replace my POS?

No. Food OS works alongside your POS today via email tickets to the kitchen. Native POS connectors (Square first) are next on the roadmap. Your existing POS handles in-store; Food OS handles online + the kitchen ticket trail.

Can I keep my current website?

Yes. The Food OS ordering surface lives at a domain or subdomain you choose — order.yourshop.com is typical — and links from your existing marketing site. We don't touch your current website unless you want us to.

How do online payments work?

Online card payments are wired during launch using Stripe, Square, or an approved processor — direct to your account, no SHV markup. The public demo runs in cash mode so the ordering flow, kitchen ticket, and loyalty earn can be shown end-to-end without a live processor connected. For your launched shop, payment processing is the default; cash / pay-at-counter stays available as an optional mode if you want it.

Can I start small?

Yes — that's the point. Starter is just ordering. You can add coupons, loyalty, KDS, or POS later by flipping a switch. You don't pay for modules you haven't turned on.

Do I own my customer data?

Yes. It's yours. We export it on demand. We don't sell it, we don't share it, we don't market a competitor to it. The audit log is yours too.

Is the AI required?

No. The agents that ship today are deterministic — rule-based, not LLMs. Real AI features (menu descriptions, coupon ideas, review replies) are opt-in modules, off by default, with owner approval before any text reaches a customer.

What if my printer or tablet goes down?

The email/console fallback path is always on. If you have a kitchen display tablet (KDS) and it freezes, the email ticket still goes through. If your printer jams, the dashboard shows the failed ticket and retries automatically. The customer doesn't know.

Ready to see your shop on its own operating system?

Book a 20-minute Food OS demo. We walk a real restaurant flow end to end — your phone, your customer, your kitchen, your loyalty club. If you're not ready for a full demo, take the audit instead.

Some of the modules described above are on the active build roadmap but not yet live in the demo — they're marked clearly in the "Coming soon" block. Pilot customers get visibility into the roadmap and a say in what ships next. Nothing on this page is something we expect you to wait 12 months for.