Field notes from restaurant technology.

How AI translation is reshaping QR menus across Türkiye

From Istanbul's tourist districts to Antalya's coastal resorts, multilingual menus are no longer a luxury — they're table stakes. Inside the numbers behind Dasvio's 14-language rollout.

18 May 20268 min read

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What is e-Adisyon and who must switch? The 2026 transition guide

14 Jul 202611 min read

What is e-Adisyon and who must switch? The 2026 transition guide

Türkiye's e-Adisyon programme is the digital counterpart of the paper table tab for table-service venues. Who it covers, how to plan the transition and what a ready POS actually means — in one guide.

What is a restaurant ticketing (adisyon) system, and what does it do?

What a venue gains when it moves from paper tabs to digital: bills that never go missing, orders that reach the kitchen by themselves, and a closing report that writes itself. Core concepts and the real flow.

Selin Aktaş

Customer Success Lead

12 criteria for choosing a restaurant POS and ticketing system

24 Jun 202613 min read

12 criteria for choosing a restaurant POS and ticketing system

The honest answer to "which POS is best" is: it depends on your operation. Twelve concrete criteria — with what to test on each — so you can run the comparison yourself, no brand names required.

How to create a QR menu: a step-by-step setup guide

12 Jun 202610 min read

How to create a QR menu: a step-by-step setup guide

The difference between uploading a PDF and building a QR menu is whether your menu is a picture or a working system. From zero to live: categories, imagery, translation, table QRs and the ordering flow.

How to open a cloud kitchen: the operations view

5 Jun 202612 min read

How to open a cloud kitchen: the operations view

The economics of a dining-room-free restaurant come from system discipline, not rent savings. Location, platform deals, the multi-brand menu setup and an operations plan for the first 90 days.

Central menu management for restaurant chains: everything that changes after branch three

28 May 202611 min read

Central menu management for restaurant chains: everything that changes after branch three

You can run two branches over the phone; after the third, menu, price and campaign sync becomes a systems problem. Master menus, branch overrides and regional pricing — a handbook for the scaling operator.

From 1 to 50 branches: scaling Anatolia Kebap's menu in 90 days

Customer Story

10 May 202612 min read

From 1 to 50 branches: scaling Anatolia Kebap's menu in 90 days

When a regional chain decided to open franchises in 7 cities in a single quarter, the operations team needed a system that wouldn't buckle. Here's how they did it.

Selin Aktaş

Customer Success Lead

Why platform integrations fall apart in the field (and how we fixed ours)

Engineering

2 May 202615 min read

Why platform integrations fall apart in the field (and how we fixed ours)

Getir, Trendyol and Yemeksepeti each have their own catalogue quirks. We rebuilt our sync engine from scratch — here's what we learned about distributed matching.

Inside Dasvio's revenue centre engine: 7 design decisions

Product

28 Apr 202610 min read

Inside Dasvio's revenue centre engine: 7 design decisions

How we built a system that splits dine-in, takeaway, delivery and bar revenue without making the cashier's job harder or the manager's report messier.

The 12-second checkout: anatomy of a café morning rush

22 Apr 20269 min read

The 12-second checkout: anatomy of a café morning rush

We timed 4,200 transactions across 8 Istanbul cafés. Where every second goes, where guests walk away, and which seconds Dasvio actually wins back.

15 Apr 20267 min read

Hourly heatmaps for restaurant operations: a primer that works

If you've never plotted your busiest hour against your quietest day, you're leaving money on the table. A step-by-step walkthrough with examples from real operators.

Master menu, branch reality: lessons from 1,000-location rollouts

8 Apr 202611 min read

Master menu, branch reality: lessons from 1,000-location rollouts

What happens when head office wants 95% brand consistency and every franchisee swears their market is different. Hint: it isn't only a software problem.

Cloud kitchens are a software problem dressed up as real estate

30 Mar 202613 min read

Cloud kitchens are a software problem dressed up as real estate

Six brands, one prep line, eight aggregators. The economics only work when the system can keep up with the chaos — which is what most platforms miss.

Why we built our POS for cashiers, not engineers

Product

22 Mar 20266 min read

Why we built our POS for cashiers, not engineers

Most POS systems optimise for back-office reporting. Ours optimises for the tired person at the terminal at 9pm on a Friday. How that decision shaped everything.

Product

15 Mar 20265 min read

Q3 2026 product update: 14 new features, one big idea

Heatmap overlays, multilingual customer displays, Trendyol claim inbox v2 and the long-awaited drag-and-drop report builder. All shipping this quarter.

Receipt printers in 2026: somehow still the wild west

The most mundane peripheral in your restaurant is also the most fragmented standard. A field report from 14 hardware vendors, with charts.

The peculiar maths of hotel F&B revenue centres

1 Mar 202610 min read

The peculiar maths of hotel F&B revenue centres

Restaurant + bar + room service + pool café isn't 4 departments — it's 4 different businesses sharing one back office. Why the accounting has to reflect that.