◈ Restaurants

Busy at seven.
Quiet at three.
Billed for both, fairly.

Restaurant software sees demand in sharp daily peaks: lunch, dinner, the Friday rush, the delivery surge when it rains. Paying for peak capacity around the clock is how most groups end up overspending on infrastructure. Compute bills by the second and prices machines under the leading cloud.

Used by independent restaurants, fast-growing chains and Fortune 500 food-service brands for ordering, reservations and operations.

Per-second
Billing through every service
30%
Under the leading cloud on CPU instances
Zero
Minimums or commitments
One
Bill across every site

What this looks like in practice

◆Online ordering and delivery integrations◆Table reservations and waitlists◆Kitchen display and order routing◆Menu management across locations◆Loyalty apps and promotions◆Inventory, supplier and waste tracking◆Sales and labour analytics◆Online ordering and delivery integrations◆Table reservations and waitlists◆Kitchen display and order routing◆Menu management across locations◆Loyalty apps and promotions◆Inventory, supplier and waste tracking◆Sales and labour analytics
What holds true here

Four things you stop arguing about

◆

Ready for the rush

Ordering and reservation systems that hold at the busiest moment of the evening, and scale back once service ends.

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Cost that tracks covers

Per-second billing means quiet afternoons cost what they use. Nothing is reserved against a forecast.

◈

The same machine for less

CPU instances and managed databases priced 30% under the leading cloud for the same thing, with the leading cloud’s figure shown beside ours.

○

One menu, every site

Menus, prices and promotions changed once and published everywhere, with a record of what changed and when.

The shift

Infrastructure that works the same hours you do

Restaurants staff for the rush and send people home when it is quiet. Infrastructure is rarely run that way, mostly because the tools made it awkward. Per-second billing makes it the default.

The usual arrangement
  • ✕Servers sized for Friday night, running all week
  • ✕Ordering slowing at exactly the wrong moment
  • ✕Menu changes pushed site by site
  • ✕Separate bills for ordering, hosting and data
  • ✕No clear cost per location
What replaces it
  • ✓Capacity that rises for service and falls after
  • ✓Ordering that holds through the rush
  • ✓Menu changes published once, recorded properly
  • ✓One bill across hosting, databases and storage
  • ✓Spend itemised by site and by service
What you can count on

Stated plainly, and qualified

30%
Under the leading cloud on CPU instances
Against the leading cloud’s cheapest matching instance
30%
Under the leading cloud’s managed databases
Per managed database-hour
Per-second
Billing
Quiet hours cost what they use
Free
To start
Two databases and 40 GB of storage included
Closer in

Restaurants, specifically

The Friday rush, without the year-round bill

Every restaurant group knows the shape of its week. The infrastructure behind ordering and reservations can follow that shape instead of being sized for its tallest point. A single kitchen starts on the free allowance; a chain with thousands of sites pays the same per-second rate, under the leading cloud, for what it actually runs.

Ordering sites from git

Brand and ordering sites deployed on Panel, close to customers with Nexus.

Orders on CosmoBase

Orders, reservations and loyalty in managed databases priced under the leading cloud’s managed databases.

Kitchen events on queues

Orders routed to kitchen displays through queues in Cloud Services.

Every site’s domain

Domains and DNS for every brand and location, managed together.

Against the leading cloud

Restaurants on Compute, against the leading cloud

4 vCPU / 8 GB server
$0.0941/hr
Leading cloud $0.1344/hr · Its cheapest machine with 4 vCPU and 16 GiB
30% less
Database
$0.0112 / database-hour
Leading cloud $0.016 / database-hour · Managed database, smallest instance
30% less
Build minutes
$0.007 / build minute
Leading cloud $0.01 / build minute · Managed hosting build minutes
30% less

Compared with the leading cloud's own published on-demand prices, US East. Every comparison.

Questions we are actually asked

Answers without the hedging

We have one restaurant. Is this overkill?+

No. The free allowance covers two databases, 40 GB of database storage and 10 GB of object storage, and there is no minimum spend. You pay only once you run more than that.

Will ordering hold during a rush?+

Capacity rises with demand and falls back after it, so the busiest moment does not have to be paid for all day.

Is everything 30% less than the leading cloud?+

No, and we do not say so. The figure applies to CPU and GPU instances, managed database hours, build minutes, AI inference and support plans. Storage and bandwidth are priced separately and published.

Do we sign up for a term?+

No. Usage is billed as it happens, and support plans are monthly.

Other industries

Where else this goes

AI Agents

Run agents, the tools they call and the models behind them on one platform, billed by the token and the second, for less than the same work costs on the leading cloud.

Customer Acquisition

Host the landing pages, attribution pipelines and onboarding flows that bring customers in, and spend less on the infrastructure than you would on the leading cloud.

Marketing

Run campaign sites, personalisation, content pipelines and marketing data on one platform that costs less than the leading cloud for the same machines and models.

Lead Generation

Run the forms, enrichment jobs, scoring models and routing that turn interest into leads, for less than the same infrastructure costs on the leading cloud.

Sales

Run CRMs, sales data, call analysis and AI assistants on one platform, priced under the leading cloud for the same machines, databases and models.

Creator Economy

Host creator platforms, media processing, storefronts and AI tools on infrastructure that bills by the second and costs less than the leading cloud for the same machines.

Start where it matters most

Begin with one workload. Keep what you have running. Decide whether to continue once you have seen it carry something real.

No migration required to begin. Nothing to tear down if you stop.