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The operating system for African restaurants.

One dashboard for the whole night — online bookings, M-Pesa deposits, WhatsApp & SMS confirmations, a live floor plan, and a kitchen display. We're building it now, and early access is open.

First 50 restaurants get 2 months free and 1:1 onboarding
Restaurant sign-up form

We review every application personally. No spam, ever.

Free for the first 2 months·Cancel anytime·We bring your bookings across
See it in action

A real Friday night,
in one screen.

What Karamu is built to do

Built for the way
you actually run service.

01 · NO-SHOWS

Cut no-shows with M-Pesa deposits.

Guests put a deposit down at booking via STK Push — the same M-Pesa they already trust. Empty tables become committed tables, automatically.

02 · BOOKINGS WHILE YOU SLEEP

Stop juggling WhatsApp at midnight.

A booking page guests can use without an app, plus WhatsApp and SMS confirmations and reminders that sound like a person wrote them. Your team stops being the call centre.

03 · RUN SERVICE FROM ONE TAB

Floor, kitchen, payments — one screen.

No expensive POS. No installer. The dashboard, host stand, kitchen display, and bill split work on the phones and tablets your team already has.

M
Mulugeta Abate
Founder, Karamu
A note from the founder

I work in Tokyo — a city where hospitality is an art, and the best technology stays invisible. Here, I've watched a single system connect a small neighbourhood restaurant to travellers from every corner of the world: tables that fill themselves, service that flows, revenue that grows while the owner sleeps. But every time I land in Nairobi or Addis, I see restaurants just as good — running on notebooks, WhatsApp groups, and gut feeling. Africa's food scene is world-class. The software behind it should be too. Karamu is that software — built for M-Pesa, built for WhatsApp, built for the way we actually run a Friday night.

Tokyo → Nairobi · 2026

Ready to fill more tables?

Two months free. The founder onboards you personally — including bringing your existing bookings and guest list across. That's it.

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