Culinary intelligence for hotels and restaurants

A menu that talks to your guests, briefs your team and answers to your P&L.

thatKorner runs the whole service on one platform. Chef Buddy answers the guest at the table. Korner Ask puts each guest's preferences in your server's hand. Chef Brain shows which dishes earn their place on the menu.

  • No card for the trial
  • Works alongside your POS
  • 60+ languages, by voice
Chef Buddy
Table 12
Live
I have a tree-nut allergy. What is safe for me tonight?
Eleven dishes are cleared for tree nuts on the kitchen's allergen matrix. The lightest is the sea bream.
Sea bream, fennel, citrusLine-caught, Sicilian olive oilTree-nut clearGluten-free
The pistachio cake is not cleared, so I will keep it out of anything I suggest. Shall I let your server know about the allergy?
Allergen answers are read from a matrix the kitchen has signed. If a dish is not on it, Chef Buddy says so and calls a person.
Ask about any dish

Three minutes, the whole idea

See one dinner service run on thatKorner.

From the menu your chef builds once, to the sommelier who already knows the guest, to the numbers your F&B director reads the next morning. Press play and watch the whole service connect.

Book a live demoSeen enough? We will walk you through it with your own menu.

The QR era, 2020 to 2025

A flat PDF, posing as service.

The QR menu solved a 2020 problem. Six years on, the guest still reads alone, the server still guesses, and the menu is still priced by instinct. Three people depend on the same menu and none of them gets an answer from it.

A printed restaurant menu, creased and stained
The guest

Is this safe for me? What is the chef proud of tonight?

Chef Buddy answers at the table, in the guest's own language, and sends the order to the kitchen. Meet Chef Buddy

The server

What did she drink last time? Who at this table has an allergy?

Korner Ask tells the sommelier before they reach the table. See Korner Ask

The F&B director

Which dishes are paying for the room, and which are only busy?

Chef Brain places every dish by popularity and margin, and tests a price change before you print it. Open Chef Brain

The owner

Why do I pay for five systems that do not talk to each other?

Orders, tables, kitchen tickets, billing and payments run on the same platform. Tour the platform

Chef Buddy, the thatKorner concierge: a white rounded character in an orange chef's hat and jacket with the K mark on its chest
Chef BuddyTable 12 asked for gluten-free and light. I gave them two dishes and the reason for each.

For the guest

Chef Buddy. The menu, in conversation.

The concierge inside the menu, at the table or in the room. It knows every ingredient, explains every dish the way your chef would, and takes the order through to the kitchen.

60+ languages, spoken or typed

A guest from Riyadh and a guest from Shanghai are both answered in their own language.

It will not guess about allergens

Answers come from a matrix your kitchen has signed. Unknown means it says so and calls a person.

Meet Chef Buddy

For the GM, the F&B director and the owner

Chef Brain. Every dish, on the two axes that matter.

Popularity on one axis, contribution margin on the other. Chef Brain sorts the whole menu into four groups and attaches an instruction to each: protect, reprice, reposition, remove. Then ask it a question in plain English and it draws the answer.

Test a price before you print it

Elasticity read per dish from your own transactions.

See what sells with what

Pair analysis across every ticket.

Open Chef Brain
Chef Brain · menu matrixIllustrative
PUZZLESSTARSDOGSPLOWHORSESSea breamLamb shoulderBurrataWagyu burgerMargheritaCaesar saladLobster linguineDuck breastTruffle risottoClub sandwichOnion soupPopularity (share of covers) →Contribution margin →

For ultra-luxury rooms

Korner Ask. The memory of a great maître d', in every hand.

The assistant on the order-taking tablet and the sommelier's handheld. Ask about the guest in front of you and get the answer before you reach the table. In a room at this level, a guest should never have to say it twice.

Table 22 · 20:42

Party of four

1
Mrs. JohnThird visitWhite Burgundy
2
Mr. JohnRegular · 9 visitsShellfish allergyBarolo
3
Ms. LailaGuest of the tableAnniversary
4
GuestFirst visit · ask
Korner Ask
What are Mr. John's allergies at Table 22, and what wine does he prefer?
Shellfish allergy, seat 2Confirmed again tonight · on every ticket for this seat
He ordered the 2016 Barolo on his last two visits and prefers still water, no ice. The turbot is cleared for him. The bisque amuse-bouche is not: the kitchen has the alternative ready.

The restaurant system underneath

From the first question to the month-end margin.

The three assistants sit on a complete restaurant management platform, delivered as software you subscribe to. Run it as your whole system or alongside the point-of-sale you already have.

  1. Chef BuddyThe guest asksQR at the table or in the room, in their language.
  2. Order deskThe order landsDine-in, in-room, takeaway and delivery in one queue.
  3. Kitchen ticketsThe kitchen cooksTickets routed by station, allergies printed per seat.
  4. Korner AskThe floor servesTables, reservations and each guest's preferences.
  5. BillingThe guest paysBills, split checks, cards and taxes per venue.
  6. Chef BrainThe menu learnsEvery ticket feeds the matrix for tomorrow's decision.

What we can stand behind

We print the basis next to the number.

Restaurant technology is full of large figures with no source. Ours are fewer, and each one says where it comes from.

15–20%

Higher average checks where Chef Buddy is on the table. Results vary by venue and menu.

Pilot-observed
60+

Languages Chef Buddy answers in, by voice or text.

Product capability
Zero

Guesses on allergens. If a dish is not on the signed matrix, the answer is a refusal and a person.

By design
60 days

A standalone pilot for hotels, with no POS integration needed in the first phase.

Commercial term

Pilots are running with hotel and restaurant operators in the UAE and India. We name them when their agreements allow it, and not before.

Who built it

Built by the people who used to sit on your side of the table.

thatKorner was founded by a hotel-group technology and security leader after a dinner at a corner table that service forgot. The platform is built to pass the security review he used to run, and to serve the kind of room he used to equip.

Read how we handle trust and security
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Vikalp ShrivastavaFounder and Managing Director

More than 24 years in hospitality technology and security across 40+ ultra-luxury properties. Formerly Group Technology Head and CISO at Kerzner International (Atlantis, One&Only, SIRO), with earlier roles at Wynn Resorts Macau, Melco Crown Entertainment, Radware and IBM. A winner of the IDC CISO Excellence Awards 2025, UAE.

RS
Rama ShrivastavaChief Executive Officer and co-founder

Leads the company and its customer relationships across the GCC and India.

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Life happens in the corner.

The corner table is the best seat in the house and the furthest from service. thatKorner was built so that no guest sitting there is ever forgotten, and no dish on the menu goes unexamined.

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