Hamu cancelled three systems. Now one is enough.

Tacos with za'atar. Tortillas, sauces and spice mixes made from scratch, from recipes passed down by their mothers. Lunch on weekdays, bar and dinner far into the weekend nights.

In the middle of Linné in Gothenburg sits Hamu — where Latin America meets the Middle East.

The name means wish, "a striving for something better" as they put it themselves. That striving does not stop in the kitchen.

Three systems. One restaurant.

Until September, Hamu ran three different systems: one for the POS, one for table bookings and one for staff. Three logins, three suppliers — and three places where the same guest and the same employee existed, without the systems knowing about each other.

Now it is all in Vendion. The POS, the table bookings and the staff in one system. The table booked for Friday's dinner sitting is the same table the bill lands on. The schedule, the staff register and the payroll data sit in the same place, with no lists to reconcile against each other.

Hamu means wish. We took them at their word.

Hamu have handled much of the onboarding themselves, and they get in touch whenever something should work differently. One ticket per question, no long lists left to gather dust.

Three wishes came in during the first week: dinner sittings whose length follows the shift, contracted working hours set in hours per month, and a way to give the accountant a login of their own without ending up in the schedule. A few days later, all three were out in a release.

More are on the way. That is how it should be.

An AI that actually answers

Two things stood out right away for José and Daniel at Hamu: the guide that shows the way, and the AI that answers.

"Your get-started guide in the corner is great. It pops up now and then to show you what to do, with a few tips and tricks. And your AI Boss actually works — unlike the one we had before, where the AI answered 'get in touch with customer support' no matter what you asked."

José & Daniel, HAMU

AI Boss is the restaurateur's own AI agent in Vendion. Ask how yesterday's lunch went or what the weekend's bookings look like, and you get an answer built on your own numbers instead of a referral to support. It works because the POS, the bookings and the staff are in one system. The AI sees what you see.

The same partners since day one

What they wrote to us says more about Hamu than about us:

"For us it matters that you are straight-talking, honest, transparent and responsive. Keep it up. Oddly enough, the POS is the one part where we have not managed to keep the same supplier since we started. Every other supplier and partner we have had since day one, and we like it that way. We are hoping for a long partnership."

José & Daniel, HAMU

"The same partners since day one, except for the POS. That says everything about how Hamu run their restaurant. We intend to earn our place the same way they earn their guests: every day, without shortcuts."

Mikael Selander, CEO and founder of Vendion

For restaurateurs with ambitions

Hamu make their own tortillas and mix their own spice blends from their mothers' recipes. On their own site they call themselves a top-ranked restaurant and bar in Linné, and their guests agree: 4.9 out of 5 on Google from more than 270 reviews. Nobody holds that level by accident.

They could have settled there. They do not, neither in the kitchen nor at the till.

That is the kind of restaurateur Vendion is built for.

Welcome to Vendion, José, Daniel and everyone at Hamu.

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