🚀 We’re launching Avocado – Restaurant POS with a built-in AI agent

👋 Hi YC! We’re Nick Evans and Shayan Guha, co-founders of Avocado - a point-of-sale system for restaurants that now includes a fully integrated AI assistant. We’re thrilled to share our biggest update yet.

🧠 The problem: running a restaurant is overwhelming

Independent restaurant owners juggle dozens of tools, dozens of vendors, and constant interruptions - all while trying to serve food and keep customers happy. Managing the POS, updating menus, pulling sales reports, figuring out Instagram posts, dealing with changing prices… it’s a full-time job on top of their actual full-time job.

But the real bottleneck? Information is trapped in systems that don’t talk to each other, and most POS systems are clunky, hard to use, or just dumb.

🍳 The solution: an AI agent that knows your restaurant

Avocado is a POS system designed from the ground up to work with an AI assistant. Our agent understands your menu, your modifiers, your sales data, your customers, your staff - and it can take action across the system in real time.

You can ask it:

• “Add a matcha latte to the menu for $5.50”
• “What’s my best-selling item on weekends?”
• “Update all egg-based items to reflect the new cost of eggs”
• “Create a social media post featuring today’s specials”
• “Tell me which servers had the highest tips last week”

…and it just does it. Right away. No UI to navigate, no learning curve, no training required.

💡 This is more than a chatbot. This is a restaurant-native AI agent with full control over the POS, KDS, kiosk, and online ordering systems - like having a superpowered GM in your pocket.

Check out our launch video here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2QaQdDJlb0

✨ Here are some examples from the video:

Prompt “Add a matcha latte to the menu”

Prompt “Write an Instagram post announcing our new matcha lattes”

Prompt “Raise all the prices of my egg dishes by 10%, round to the nearest quarter”

Prompt “We’re out of bacon. Mark everything with bacon as out of stock.”

👩‍🍳 Why we built Avocado

We’ve worked with restaurants for years and have seen the same story over and over: people want to focus on hospitality and food - not software. But they were stuck with outdated POS systems or janky integrations between too many tools.

So we built Avocado to be the last system a restaurant needs - tightly integrated hardware + software, a beautiful POS UI, and now, a deeply capable AI agent.
(Also, we were frustrated that nobody else had done it right. So we did.)

📣 Call to action

We're looking to work with independent restaurants, food trucks, cafes, and anyone tired of using 5 different tools to run their shop. If you want to try Avocado or just want to chat about what we’re building:

📬 Email us: founders@avocadopos.com
📱 Text us: (512) 580-7988
🌐 Website: https://avocadopos.com

🙏 Asks

• If you know restaurant owners - especially in Texas or California - please send them our way.
• We’d love feedback on the demo and ideas for what the AI agent should do next.

Thanks YC - can’t wait to hear what you think.
Nick & Shayan