Empower Your Multi-Unit Restaurant Operations with Edge Computing

Streamline application management across all locations with the Avassa Edge Platform.

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The Challenges of Managing Technology Across Multiple Restaurant Locations

Running technology across dozens—or even hundreds or thousands—of restaurant locations introduces real complexity.

From digital ordering systems to kitchen displays and staff scheduling tools, multi-unit restaurants rely on a growing number of applications that need to run reliably and in real time.

Traditional IT models, built around centralized cloud services, often struggle to meet demands for low latency, offline capability, and local data security.

Scaling operations while keeping systems consistent, secure, and always available becomes a major pain point.

Avassa addresses these challenges with an edge-native approach built for modern, containerized applications. Our platform empowers restaurant operators to centrally orchestrate applications across every location—ensuring seamless updates, high availability, and the agility required to innovate at scale.

The Application Orchestration Platform for the Restaurant Edge

Avassa provides a purpose-built application orchestration platform that bridges the gap between containerized applications and distributed restaurant infrastructure. As restaurants adopt modern software solutions—from kitchen display systems to order routing and loyalty apps—IT teams need a reliable way to deploy, manage, and update those applications across hundreds of locations. Avassa delivers just that. Our platform gives you centralized control with decentralized execution, ensuring each location runs securely and efficiently, even when disconnected from the cloud. This means faster innovation cycles, greater consistency across sites, and the ability to manage your entire edge fleet like a single, cohesive environment.

Transform Your Multi-Unit Restaurant Operations with Avassa

Uninterrupted Operations & Blazing-Fast Data Processing

In quick-service and fast-casual restaurants, every second counts. Avassa ensures your critical applications—like POS systems and kitchen displays—stay online and responsive, even when internet connectivity is lost. By processing data locally at the edge, restaurants can deliver real-time experiences to staff and customers without latency or disruption.

  • Kitchen display systems that rely on low-latency communication with point-of-sale systems
  • Application and system functionality during periods of lost connectivity

Streamlined Management & Rapid Scalability

As your restaurant footprint grows, so does the complexity of managing technology across sites. Avassa allows you to deploy and update containerized applications across all locations from a central interface—ensuring consistency, reducing manual work, and enabling rapid expansion without scaling your IT team.

  • Easy rollout of new features across the restaurant fleet
  • Efficient onboarding of new locations

Enhanced Security & Compliance at Every Edge Location

Data security and compliance requirements don’t stop at the data center. Avassa extends enterprise-grade security to the edge by enforcing role-based access, logging, encryption, and secure update workflows—ensuring each store operates with full protection against threats and compliance risks.

  • Role-based access limits who can change application or configuration
  • Encrypted updates keep data and application secure across sites

Full Visibility & Control of Your Distributed Applications

With Avassa, you gain real-time insights into the health and status of your distributed applications. From version tracking to failure alerts, the platform provides full observability—so your IT team always knows what’s running, where, and how it’s performing.

  • Observability into running applications
  • Integration with existing CI/CD pipelines

Real-World Use Cases in Restaurants

  • Real-Time Kitchen Management Systems: The Avassa platform can be used to deploy and manage applications that streamline kitchen operations across multiple restaurant locations. By processing data locally, these applications can optimize food preparation times, manage inventory more efficiently, and reduce food waste.
  • Dynamic Digital Menu Boards: Avassa can support the management of digital menu boards, allowing restaurants to change menu items, prices, and promotions in real-time across different locations. This can be particularly useful for adapting to local preferences, managing stock-based availability, and implementing dynamic pricing strategies.
  • Customer Order and Queue Management: Restaurants can use the platform to deploy applications that manage customer orders and queues. By processing this information locally, restaurants can reduce wait times, improve order accuracy, and enhance the overall customer experience.
  • Energy and Resource Management: Avassa can manage applications that monitor and control energy usage, HVAC systems, and other resources in real-time. This local processing capability allows for more efficient use of resources, reducing operational costs and supporting sustainability initiatives.
  • Local Marketing and Personalization Strategies: The platform can handle applications that analyze customer data at each location to offer personalized marketing strategies, such as targeted promotions and loyalty rewards. By processing data locally, these strategies can be more effectively tailored to the preferences of customers at each specific location.
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Trusted by Leading Retailers

  • “We look forward to continuing to use Avassa as an important component to further enhance our edge computing capabilities across the H&M Group.”
    Katharina Gromotka, H&M Group ventures
  • “With the Avassa platform, we are able to deploy and operate our applications at the edge with ease, using the same mechanisms we already have in place for centralized cloud delivery. This delights our engineers since the edge becomes a simple extension of the tooling and patterns they have grown to love in the cloud.”
    Shayne Clausson CTO of Extenda Retail
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Seamless Integration with Your Restaurant Tech Stack

Avassa fits right into your existing restaurant IT setup—whether you’re running containerized applications, virtual machines, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring tools, or POS systems. Our platform supports hybrid environments, making it easy to modernize operations without replacing what already works. The result? Less IT friction, happy application teams, faster innovation, and smoother scaling across all your restaurant locations.

Frequently Asked Questions

Edge computing processes data on-site at each restaurant, enabling faster responses and greater resilience, while cloud computing depends on centralized data centers and constant connectivity. Avassa makes edge computing seamless by managing applications across all locations from a single control point.

By keeping data local and minimizing transmission over networks, edge computing reduces exposure to threats and helps meet security and compliance requirements more easily. Avassa ensures this with secure updates, role-based access, and full audit logging.

It enables real-time processing, reduces latency, and keeps operations running smoothly—even during internet outages—improving both staff workflow and customer experience. Avassa supports this with reliable edge execution and centralized application and infrastructure lifecycle management.

Edge computing in restaurants means running key applications—like ordering, kitchen display, and digital signage—directly at each location for better speed, reliability, and control. Avassa empowers this by bridging modern applications with distributed in-restaurant infrastructure.

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