A pickup order, “are service dogs allowed?”, a Friday table for four — Shisu picks up on the first ring, rings takeout straight into the POS, answers from your house rules, and books the table. No hold, ever.
Learn more →It reads your POS and reservation signals, forecasts the peak, and spots the gap before you do — then posts the roles, screens applicants, books interviews, and onboards your hire through payroll and training.
Learn more →A Google review says the rice was undercooked. Shisu scans the photo, matches it to an order from the last hour and to the guest by name, then routes the feedback to the exact cook and host by text — and drafts your reply.
Learn more →No add-on tiers, no per-feature upsells. OpenTable-grade reservations, enterprise-grade payroll, and Wi-Fi-down cellular failover all ship standard — and the AI runs it.
| shisu | Toast | Square | Chowbus | Clover | MenuSifu | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agentic AI that runs the whole shift | ✓ | Partial | Partial | – | – | – |
| Everything included — no add-on tiers | ✓ | Add-on | Add-on | ✓ | Add-on | Add-on |
| Reservations & waitlist | ✓ | Add-on | Add-on | ✓ | Add-on | Add-on |
| Payroll, built in | ✓ | Add-on | Add-on | – | Add-on | Add-on |
| Wi-Fi down? Cellular failover | ✓ | Add-on | Partial | – | ✓ | Partial |
| Transparent flat card rate | ✓ | Partial | ✓ | – | ✓ | – |
| No long-term contract or lock-in | ✓ | 2–3 yr | ✓ | Varies | Varies | Varies |
| Runs on standard, non-proprietary hardware | ✓ | Proprietary | ✓ | Varies | Proprietary | Varies |
| Shows its work — every action traced | ✓ | – | Partial | – | – | – |
✓ included · Add-on = costs extra or higher tier · Partial = limited or single-task · — not offered. Compiled from publicly available information, June 2026; competitor offerings change.
People and AI, working the same shift — and it shows you every step.