Active build · Founder/operator · 2024 — present
Haiba × AI Restaurant OS
Tech-and-AI-driven restaurant business on top of Haiba Bistro, Dhaka. AI gap analysis · analytics-driven menu · image-to-table ordering · generative brand assets · AI dish creation with the chef.
1
Real bistro
5+
AI surfaces
BD
Dhaka, live
Role
Founder & operator · Building the AI layer
Period
2024 — present
Location
Haiba Bistro, Dhaka
Stack
LLMComputer VisionGenerativeNano BananaOperations
§ Context
Why a bistro
You can't engineer a great food experience from a deck. Haiba is a real, operating bistro in Dhaka — and the substrate I use to pressure-test what AI can actually do for hospitality.
Every AI surface here had to prove itself against staff time, customer joy, and unit economics — not against a benchmark.
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AI surfaces shipped
- AI gap analysis. Reviews + sales + ops data → weekly report on what to fix this week.
- Analytics-driven menu. Dish performance feeds re-pricing and removal decisions; the menu mutates monthly.
- Image-to-table ordering. A guest snaps a dish, the system recognises and routes it to the kitchen.
- Generative brand assets. Posters, social, plate styling references — generated in-house with my taste in the loop.
- AI dish creation with the chef. Gen-AI proposes flavour pairings; the chef ships the ones that actually work.
§ Reflection
What I learned
Hospitality is the hardest substrate for AI to be useful in: latency, dignity, and physicality matter more than novelty. The stuff that works is invisible.