From a restaurant floor
to an operating system.
“In 2018, I opened a restaurant. By 2022, I built the software I wished existed. We’re not digitizing restaurants — we’re rewriting how they run.”
Opened a restaurant
I'm a restaurateur, not a coder. I lived the chaos before I solved it.
Tried every solution
Table beepers. Tablets. POS terminals costing six figures. They all broke. We always crawled back to pen and paper.
Started building Umami
I built the operating system I needed — as a customer, as an owner, as someone who refused to accept that this is just how restaurants work.
First chains went live
Romantic Baboy. Kalei Cafe Bar. Real branches. Real volume. Real proof.
Offline-first deployed
Restaurants can now run a full night without internet. Local laptop, cloud sync, zero downtime.
Scaling to every restaurant in PH
Free tier launched. Goal: every café and restaurant in the Philippines, on Umami.