An always-on AI back-of-house for Atlanta independents.
Hearthkin plugs into your POS, inventory, scheduling and review channels and watches them around the clock — drafting supplier orders, reshuffling staffing to match forecasted covers, replying in your house voice, and flagging kitchen issues before they’re a public one-star.
06:42Drafted produce order — 4 lines under par
auto-sent to centered · awaiting approval
10:14Replied: “The tiramisu bridge” — 4-star Google
in house voice · roger·leon reviewed weekly
13:51Shift swap: D. → K. for Fri close
deferred to manager · thumbs-up needed
19:03Walk-in cooler °F drift ↑ — escalated to GM
ticket times held within +1m±
21:17Closing note drafted — 2 comps, 0 voids
posted to manager channel
Tonight
✓ steady
Replies
6 / 6
GM pages
1
What it watches
Four surfaces. One quiet operator.
The legacy patchwork — POS, scheduling add-on, separate review tool — collapses into a single agent that knows your floor and your house voice.
Inventory
Drafts supplier orders before you run out
Counts par, consumes your covers, and emits a Monday-morning draft to your purveyor the moment parsley or panko breaks threshold.
Staffing
Reshuffles the schedule to match covers
Pulls 14-day forecasts from reservations and weather, and slides pre-shift, mid-shift and close — every swap pushes to your team chat for a thumbs-up.
Reputation
Replies to reviews in your house voice
On Yelp and Google, in a tone you approve once — never defensive, always the host you’d want flying the flag at the door.
Kitchen pulse
Flags ticket times, voids and faults early
Watches average ticket time, comp rate, walkouts and equipment sensor chatter; escalates to the GM before it becomes a public one-star.
A day on the floor
Hours you don’t have time to babysit already handled.
Four checkpoints, four jobs Hearthkin quietly runs on your behalf — every shift, every weekend, every surprise on the books.
- 04:00
Pre-open
Counts prep, fires the bread proof and tells the morning prep cook what to prioritize.
- 11:00
Lunch service
Shadows the KDS, nudges the line when ticket times drift and pings FOH on 86’d items.
- 15:30
Mid-afternoon
Drafts tomorrow’s schedule from the new booking curve, queues it for the manager’s one-tap.
- 21:15
Close
Reconciles comps and voids, posts a clean shift note, and only pages the GM on the outliers.
Built for Atlanta
A local-first operator, sized for an independent’s real bandwidth.
Hearthkin is led by a working Atlanta GM who runs these floors. Onboarding, pricing and the rollout itself are shaped by the people doing the job — not by rollout teams serving chains.
- One white-glove install across POS, scheduling and reviews.
- Single Atlanta metro outreach over broad national marketing.
- House voice and approval rules authored once, reused every shift.
GM, 60-seat bistro
The pain
“I’m awake at 6 because tomorrow’s prep still isn’t ordered — and if I do sleep, the Yelp queue piles up.”
What Hearthkin does
Hearthkin proposes the produce order Sunday night, drafts all week’s Yelp replies in your house voice and pages the GM only on the outliers.
Net result
First Sunday off in months. Mondays start inside 15 minutes.
Ready when you are
Send a one-line note. The founder replies within a day.
Tell us how many seats, how many covers a day, and what POS you’re on — we’ll come back with what Hearthkin would actually do on your floor.