The taste layer
for your menu.
Restaurants fly blind on the one thing that decides everything: flavor. You know what sold — never quite why. TasteHub turns the taste graph behind TasteBud into an operating system for your menu, so you can diagnose, design, and decide with the same precision your diners feel on the plate.
You can measure every cost in the kitchen except the one that matters most.
A modern restaurant tracks food cost to the cent, labour to the minute, and covers to the seat. Yet the question that quietly decides the night — does this dish actually match the taste of the people I serve? — gets answered by instinct, a chef’s palate, and last month’s sales mix. When a plate stalls, the data tells you it stalled. It never tells you whether it was too bitter for your lunch crowd, undercut by a similar dish three lines up, or simply priced past its perceived value.
TasteBud already speaks the missing language. To recommend dishes to diners, it represents both people and plates as flavor and texture profiles in one shared space. TasteHub points that same engine at your business — so the guesswork in menu design becomes something you can read, test, and improve.
Three ways to run your menu on taste
One taste graph, three jobs to be done — diagnose what’s on the menu, design what’s next, and truly know who you cook for.
Know exactly why a plate isn’t selling
Sales reports tell you what underperformed. They never tell you why. TasteHub does.
TasteHub decomposes every dish into its flavor and texture profile — sweet, sour, salty, bitter, umami, fatty, spicy, plus crunch, cream and chew — and weighs it against the people who actually walk through your door. Instead of a flat “this sold poorly,” you get a ranked, plain-language diagnosis of the root cause.
- A taste mismatch — the dish sits outside your room’s profile
- A single off-putting note or ingredient dragging it down
- Cannibalization by a better-matched dish on your own menu
- Pricing and menu placement working against it
Design new dishes that are aligned to sell
A creative partner for your kitchen that thinks in flavor, not guesswork.
Describe a gap — “a lighter summer main under $18” — and the copilot proposes dishes and tweaks tuned to the flavors your diners crave and to what’s rising across the wider taste graph. Before you prep a single portion, it projects how the dish will land: a predicted match distribution across your diner base, an expected popularity score, and a flag for any existing plate it might cannibalize.
- Generative dish and flavor ideas, tuned to your room
- Predicted reception and popularity before you cook
- Experiment safely — model a flavor swap and see the lift
- Keeps your signature; sharpens what surrounds it
Understand your diners at the level of taste
Stop guessing who you cook for. See the flavor fingerprint of your room.
TasteHub builds the aggregate taste profile of the people who actually eat with you — and the neighborhood around you — and tracks how it shifts by daypart and season. Lay it over your current menu and the gaps light up: the flavor profiles your diners want that you under-serve, and the ones you over-index on. It’s the difference between a menu built on instinct and one built on demand.
- Live flavor trends, by daypart and season
- Menu coverage vs. real diner demand, side by side
- Your room and your neighborhood, benchmarked
- Privacy-first — always aggregate, never individual
A taste flywheel that compounds
TasteBud and TasteHub are two ends of one loop. The more diners taste, the smarter your menu decisions get.
Diners react
People use TasteBud to find dishes they love at your restaurant, reacting to plates as they go.
Taste becomes data
Every reaction sharpens a shared taste graph — dishes and diners described in the same flavor language.
TasteHub turns it into decisions
You see why dishes win or stall, design new ones with confidence, and align the menu to real demand.
The menu gets better
Better-matched menus delight more diners — who react more — and the whole loop compounds in your favor.
Great food deserves to be found
Whether you run a kitchen or back the teams shaping how people eat — let’s start a conversation.
For restaurants
Get your best dishes in front of the diners most likely to love them — and turn the menu itself into a system you can tune.
- Spotlight your signature dishes to the right palates
- Diagnose underperformers down to the flavor note
- Design and price new dishes with predicted demand
- Reach diners by taste, not noisy ads
For investors
A consumer app and a B2B platform feeding one proprietary taste graph. If you back defensible data flywheels in a category everyone touches three times a day, let’s talk.
- A personalization data flywheel that compounds
- Two products, one widening data moat
- Mobile-first and bilingual from day one
- A closed beta already shaping real engagement
Let’s talk business
Tell us a little about you and we’ll be in touch within two business days.
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