Founding partners
We're new — so no made-up stats. Here's a real offer instead.
Saltline is signing up to three founding kitchens on the coast this season. You help us prove it on a real line; we make the numbers work in your favor for as long as you run one. Help us help each other.
One email. No pitch deck — just a conversation about your kitchen.
Platform
Everything you need to run tighter.
From the moment you connect Toast, Saltline starts learning. By the end of your first season, it knows your kitchen better than any spreadsheet ever could.
ML prep forecasts
Your restaurant's own model, trained on your sales history, local weather, tides, and events. It updates every night and sharpens with every season.
Morning prep lists
Generated before service starts, updated intraday with same-day pace data. No printing, no whiteboard, no disputes about whose number is right.
Barcode scan & count
Scan any product UPC to build your inventory catalog. Morning counts take 6 minutes, not 25. Works offline, syncs when you're back on WiFi.
Inventory & waste tracking
Barcode scanning, yield inference, and quantity learning from your actual depletion data. The system backs out exactly how much you use per cover, automatically.
Alerts & kitchen comms
Instant alerts when forecasts shift mid-day. Prep status visibility across the kitchen without radio chatter or group texts.
Intra-day nowcast
Live POS data from Toast feeds the model throughout service. If lunch is running 30% over projection, the prep list updates before dinner starts.
Why coastal New England
Built by someone who's worked the line in York Beach.
Seasonal restaurants on the New England coast face pressures that generic software was never designed for. You do three months of revenue in the summer. A cold snap in July, a road closure on 1A, a canceled fireworks show — any of these can tank a Saturday that was supposed to carry the week.
I've spent seven years in kitchens on this coast. Saltline is the tool I wished existed.
"Know your line." How much you can make, how much you need, where the waste is going.
Seasonal revenue swings
Your model is trained on your seasonal rhythm, not a national average. Week 1 of tourist season is weighted differently than week 1 of October.
Event & weather sensitivity
York Days, Hampton Beach concerts, Ogunquit Fest, school vacations, nor'easters — Saltline tracks the signals that move volume on the coast.
Small team, thin margins
No enterprise license. No dedicated IT. Saltline is built to run on a phone or tablet with zero training beyond scanning a barcode.
Off-season continuity
The model doesn't go dark in November. Off-season data is what teaches it why December looks nothing like August.