Haske
Voice ordering for Nigerian restaurants. Guests say what they want, the kitchen gets a clean ticket.
Ordering food in many Nigerian restaurants still runs on waving, shouting and paper slips. Haske lets a guest speak the order the way they would to a waiter, in English or Pidgin, and turns it into a clean kitchen ticket with a timer on it.
- BuiltDesigned and coded in five days
- LanguagesEnglish and Pidgin today; Yorùbá, Igbo and Hausa next
- Works withTable service or counter numbers
The moment I designed for
"Pounded yam and egusi, assorted, small pepper." That sentence is the whole product. People already know how to order out loud; the menu, the slip of paper and the waiter shouting across the room are the friction.
So the guest screen is almost empty: one big button, then a plain-language confirmation of what Haske heard, with prices in naira and a number to watch for.
The kitchen gets a clean ticket
Every order lands on a live board with its own clock. Tickets turn amber at five minutes and red when they are late, so the kitchen can see trouble before the guest feels it. One tap marks an order ready or paid.
A lot of restaurants have no table numbers at all, so Haske works both ways: call the guest’s number at the counter, or bring it to the table.
Ship first, then listen
After five days of design and build, Haske went straight to real restaurants instead of waiting to be perfect. Guests do not phrase orders the way I expected, and half of what I assumed people would say out loud, they don’t. Those notes now drive the roadmap: delivery, reservations with pre-order and the local languages.
What changed
- 5 days design to live product
- Week 1 real restaurants using it
- 2 languages live, 3 more planned