Real-Time Vision AI for Restaurants

Leverage existing cameras to unlock instant insights for Quick Service

Understand every second. Act before it costs you.

No new cameras · Runs on-premise · Live in 3 days
242 msPixel to decision, on-premise
60+Event types, front and back of house
0Faces stored, matched or indexed
✦ What it does

One AI Store Manager. Four Jobs at Once.

Your existing security cameras become an operations team that never blinks. No new hardware — just the sentences a manager would say if they were standing there.

⚡ Efficiency Faster From guest departure to a table ready for the next guest

Turn every cleared table into a faster next service

  • Track the time from guest departure to bowl collection
  • Find tables waiting to be cleared and help staff prioritize
  • Compare clearing times to discover opportunities to improve table turnover
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💰 Cost AI-powered Let AI monitor seats so your team can focus on service

Make every staff hour count

  • See occupied and available seats at a glance
  • Reduce repetitive manual checks with AI-assisted monitoring
  • Use occupancy patterns to support staffing decisions and manage labour costs
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🛡 Safety Awareness Understand guest activity across the dining area

See what is happening across your restaurant

  • Observe activity such as eating, waiting and phone use
  • Keep a clearer view of the dining area as activity changes
  • Give staff more context to notice situations that may need attention
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⭐ Satisfaction Unspoken Use observable dining signals to reveal the feedback guests do not say aloud

See and quantify the unspoken

  • Analyze visible bowl status as one signal of the dining experience
  • Compare measurable dining patterns across dishes and times
  • Combine these signals with other feedback to better understand satisfaction
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⚡ The difference

Most Video Analytics Looks. MISE Watches.

The gap is not the model. It is the sampling rate — and everything that falls between the frames.

"One frame every 3–5 seconds. A guest can arrive, wait, give up and walk out entirely between two samples."

The usual approach

"Every person tracked at 30 fps, unbroken — using skeleton and motion, never a face."

MISE · Layer 01

"A real-time vision-language model reads the actual scene and describes it in 242 milliseconds."

MISE · Layer 02

"Lane 2 has stalled — the guest at the front has been waiting 4:10 and two behind them are leaving."

What you actually receive
See the architecture
◉ Detection catalogue

60 Things Your Cameras Can Already Tell You

Every item is a distinct event type with its own threshold, alert route and audit trail. Turn on what matters to your format; leave the rest off.

Guest flow & queueFLW · 10

FLW-01Queue length by lane
FLW-02Wait time per guest
FLW-03Abandonment risk
FLW-04Walk-in vs walk-by rate
FLW-05Greeting latency
FLW-06Party size at entry
FLW-07Occupancy vs capacity
FLW-08Menu-board dwell time
FLW-09Aisle & doorway blockage
FLW-10Drive-thru stack depth

Table & serviceSVC · 10

SVC-01Table occupancy state
SVC-02Table turn time
SVC-03Seat-to-order interval
SVC-04Order-to-serve interval
SVC-05Empty glass refill cue
SVC-06Hand-raise service request
SVC-07Uncleared table detection
SVC-08Plate-left-uneaten signal
SVC-09Server zone coverage
SVC-10Check-drop to payment gap

Counter & checkoutPAY · 10

PAY-01Item count vs order ticket
PAY-02Skip-scan at self-checkout
PAY-03Handoff to wrong guest
PAY-04Void & refund video match
PAY-05Drawer open, no sale
PAY-06Queue-to-register ratio
PAY-07Bag assembly completeness
PAY-08Side or condiment omission
PAY-09Payment dwell time
PAY-10Intervention need forecast

Kitchen & lineLIN · 10

LIN-01Station cycle time
LIN-02Bottleneck station
LIN-03Cook-time overrun
LIN-04Holding-time violation
LIN-05Order assembly check
LIN-06Portion consistency
LIN-07Waste & dump events
LIN-08Equipment door left open
LIN-09Cold-chain door duration
LIN-10Cleaning task verification

Food safetySAF · 10

SAF-01Handwash frequency & duration
SAF-02Gloves before food contact
SAF-03Hairnet & headwear compliance
SAF-04Raw-to-ready-to-eat crossover
SAF-05Uncovered food on the line
SAF-06Dropped-item reuse
SAF-07Floor spill detection
SAF-08Surface sanitising cadence
SAF-09Pest movement anomaly
SAF-10Allergen station separation

Crew & anomalyPPL · 10

PPL-01Zone staffing coverage
PPL-02Shift changeover delay
PPL-03SOP step completion
PPL-04Training-moment capture
PPL-05Slip & fall detection
PPL-06Distress or no-motion alert
PPL-07Lone worker after hours
PPL-08Loitering & erratic movement
PPL-09Altercation (motion-based)
PPL-10Concealment gesture
⚙ How it works

Two Layers. One Box. Nothing Leaves the Building.

Running a language model on every frame of every camera is not affordable, and anyone claiming otherwise has not done the arithmetic. So we split the work.

10–20 cams RTSP / ONVIF LAYER 01 · ALWAYS ON Continuous tracking Pose + multi-object tracking 30 fps · all streams · skeleton only Stable IDs without any face data Cost negligible · runs 24/7 EVENT GATE LAYER 02 · ON DEMAND Real-time VLM Edge vision-language model 242 ms per 512×512 frame Reads the scene, writes the alert Fires only when layer 01 flags TEXT ONLY

Why two layers

A vision-language model on an edge device answers roughly four times a second. Twenty cameras running continuously would need forty. So layer one — cheap, fast, always on — decides when layer two is worth waking up.

What this buys you

Cost drops by an order of magnitude, latency stays under a quarter second, and no video ever crosses your firewall. What syncs to head office is a line of text and a timestamp.

🔒 Privacy & compliance by design

We Read the Room. We Never Identify Anyone.

MISE analyses facial expression and body motion to score service quality. It does not match faces against any database, does not build a persistent profile, and stores no face images. Identity is a temporary track ID that expires the moment the person leaves the frame.

Expression analysis is regulated differently by market, so it is enabled per region and per role. Under the EU AI Act, emotion recognition in the workplace is a prohibited practice — staff-facing analysis is therefore disabled in EU deployments and cannot be switched on. Guest-facing analysis runs under GDPR with signage and a DPIA.

📈 Proven gains

What Operators Get Back

Published industry ranges for what operators recover after deploying AI video analytics. We would rather show you someone else's audited numbers than invent our own.

+22%

Shrink recovered

22% less identifiable theft after AI video analytics deployment

Industry benchmark
+25%

Throughput

From a 20% cut in drive-thru service time — the top of the reported 15–20% range

Industry benchmark
+15%

Labour budget freed

From traffic-based scheduling — the top of the reported 5–15% range

Industry benchmark
+25%

Compliance

25% fewer food safety violations across monitored sites

Industry benchmark

Source: published 2026 industry benchmarks for AI video analytics in restaurant chains, which also report a typical payback period of 3–6 months. These are sector-wide figures, not MISE customer results — we will publish our own the moment we have audited ones.

▶ Deployment

From Call to Insights in 3 Days

No new cameras, no rewiring, no ceiling work. Priced per location, per month — never per camera.

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15-minute camera audit

Send your camera list or an NVR screenshot. We tell you exactly which detections your current angles support — and which they do not.

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One box, one cable

An edge appliance goes next to your recorder and pulls the RTSP streams you already have. Nothing else in the building changes.

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Live alerts on the floor

Managers start getting plain-sentence alerts on their phones, and a shift report that reads like someone was actually there.

🔒 FAQ

Your Questions, Answered

Do I need to buy new cameras?

No. If a camera exposes an RTSP or RTSPS stream — which covers ONVIF-compliant IP cameras and almost every NVR sold in the last decade — MISE can read it. Analogue cameras already feeding a recorder work too, via the recorder.

Camera placement matters more than camera specification. A 2 MP feed at 10 fps pointed at the right angle beats a 4K feed pointed at a wall.

Does my footage go to the cloud?

Not by default, and not at all if you do not want it to. Inference runs on an edge appliance inside your building. What leaves the site is event text and timestamps — "Lane 2 stalled, 4:10 wait, 14:22:07" — not video.

If you want clip review at head office, that is an option you switch on per site, not an architectural requirement.

Do you use facial recognition?

No, and the system is not built to. MISE tracks people as skeletons and motion paths with a temporary ID that expires when they leave frame. We do not match, index or store faces, and we do not infer emotion or intent about any individual.

This is a deliberate constraint. It keeps us clear of the EU AI Act's prohibited practices and makes the legal review at your end considerably shorter.

What does "real time" actually mean here?

Two different numbers, and we will not blur them. Continuous tracking of every person runs at 30 fps on all streams. Language-level scene understanding runs at 242 ms per frame on a Jetson Orin class device, gated to the moments the tracking layer flags.

Anyone telling you they run a full vision-language model at 30 fps on twenty cameras from one edge box is describing hardware that does not exist yet.

How is it priced?

Per location, per month — not per camera. A restaurant with 18 cameras pays the same as one with 8, because charging per camera punishes exactly the operators who have the best coverage.

Multi-site groups get a single rate across the estate. No hardware markup on the edge appliance.

What about my staff? Is this a surveillance tool?

MISE reports on process, not on people. Alerts are addressed to a station and a shift, not to an individual — "the assembly station has been the bottleneck for 40 minutes", not "Maria is slow".

The staff-facing features operators actually keep switched on are the safety ones: slip and fall detection, distress alerts, lone-worker monitoring after close. Those are the ones crews ask for.

✦ Try it out

Your Cameras Already Saw It. Now You Will Too.

Fifteen minutes, your camera list, and an honest answer about what your current setup can and cannot do.