TapWait AI: Smarter Restaurant Operations and Marketing with Open-Weight AI

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle What I Built Every restaurant has two important jobs: delivering excellent customer service and attracting customers. But managing service requests, coordinating waitstaff, and creating engaging promotions can be challenging when these activities rely on disconnected tools and manual processes. TapWait AI brings restaurant operations and AI-powered marketing together in one connected hospitality platform. Built for restaurants, bars, cafés, and food service businesses, TapWait AI combines a Flutter mobile application for waitstaff, a web dashboard for managers, real-time backend services, and AI-assisted promotional campaigns. Here is how it works. A Mobile App for Restaurant Waitstaff Waiters use the Flutter mobile application to receive and manage customer service requests. Requests move through a defined workflow, allowing staff to track their status and respond to customer ne