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Technology that pays for itself on the line, not in the back office.
KLS is a purpose-built edge appliance for professional kitchens. Labeling, compliance, stock, and AI kitchen intelligence — running on hardware designed to survive a working kitchen.
What goes wrong in a working kitchen.
- Paper labels fade, fall off, get the date wrong, or never get printed.
- Compliance records exist for the inspector, not the operator.
- Waste is invisible until inventory runs out or the bin is full.
- Recipes scale by guesswork. Service-time pressure makes it worse.
- Multiple stations need the same information. The information lives on one chef's clipboard.
Every kitchen we have walked into has some version of these problems. KLS exists because we have them too.
An appliance, not an app.
KLS is a Raspberry Pi-class compute unit with an industrial UPS, thermal label printer, and weighing scale, in a single enclosure. Staff access it through any browser on any tablet — phones, kitchen tablets, the office laptop.
The device runs locally. The cloud is for backup, multi-site sync, and remote support.
What it does.
Label printing and compliance
Date-coded thermal labels for prep, opened goods, and storage. Batch tracking from receipt to portion. Compliance records that build themselves as the kitchen runs.
Stock tracking with FIFO awareness
Stock batches with edge-side UUIDs. Idempotent consumption. The system knows what's about to expire before the kitchen does.
Recipe scaling and weighing
Connected to the integrated scale. Scale a recipe, weigh the components, print the prep label, log the batch. One workflow, one device.
AI kitchen intelligence — premium tier
Daily rundowns, prep recommendations, anomaly detection across stock and orders. Powered by Groq, designed for the head chef who doesn't want to read a dashboard.
Multi-tablet, multi-station
The Pi serves the kitchen. Every staff phone or tablet is a client. No app to install. Open the browser, the system is there.
Works without internet
Internet is for sync, not operation. Service continues during outages. Sync resumes when the connection comes back.
Things break. The kitchen doesn't stop.
Internet drops.
The printer doesn't. KLS operates locally. Sync resumes when the connection comes back, with no data loss.
Power blips.
The UPS holds the system through the gap. At critical voltage, the system performs an emergency cloud sync and shuts down cleanly.
SD card fails.
Every record is backed up to the cloud. Replace the card, restore, continue. Time to recovery is hours, not days.
Cloud goes down.
The kitchen never knows. The primary database lives on the device.
This is the difference between software adapted from an office and a system specified for a kitchen.
Case study — Pousada Kumaki
Running in our own kitchen since May 2025.
Pousada Kumaki is a Brazilian rodízio in Poland, run by Kovitech co-founders André and Anna. KLS has been deployed there continuously for nearly a year. The hardware is the same. The software is the same. The deployment process is the same one we use for any new client.
Reduction in food waste and labor hours since deployment, depending on season. Roughly 60,000–120,000 PLN annualized for a single restaurant.
The system enables the discipline. The operators execute it. KLS works for kitchens whose operators want to run them well — it does not replace operator competence, it amplifies it.
Hardware as a Service.
KLS is delivered as an appliance, not as software you install. We ship the device, we deploy it on-site, we maintain it remotely. You operate the kitchen.
Three deployment tiers, sized to the operation:
Basic
Runs on your existing kitchen network.
Standard
Includes a dedicated router for printer isolation and network reliability.
Premium
Includes 4G cellular failover. The kitchen runs whether the building's internet does or not.
Pricing is per-tier, includes hardware, deployment, ongoing software updates, and remote support. We discuss it on the demo call.
Book a demoCommon questions.
What if the internet goes down during service?
The kitchen keeps running. KLS operates locally. Sync resumes when the connection comes back, with no data loss.
What if the printer breaks?
We ship a replacement printer. The system continues recording labels, prints them when the new unit is connected. No data lost during the gap.
Who installs it?
We do. Standard deployment is half a day on-site for the operator's first device. Multi-site deployments are scheduled in coordination with the kitchen.
Can I use my own tablets?
Yes. KLS serves a web interface. Any phone or tablet with a browser works. No app store, no install, no per-device licensing.
What does it cost?
We discuss pricing on the demo call, after we understand the operation. We don't publish list prices because the right tier depends on the kitchen.
How long does setup take?
On-site deployment is typically 4–6 hours. Operators are running labels the same day. Full operational integration typically takes 2 weeks.
Do you support multiple locations?
Yes. Each location runs its own edge appliance. Cloud sync provides multi-site visibility, with tenant isolation at the Supabase layer.
What happens if the SD card fails?
The cloud holds a continuously-synced backup of every record. We ship a replacement card with the latest snapshot pre-loaded. Time to recovery is hours, not days.
See it running in a working kitchen.
The fastest way to evaluate KLS is to talk to us. We'll walk through the system, the deployment, and what it costs.
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