Restaurant technology in Dublin, built here.

The week has changed shape and the software has not caught up. Hybrid working thinned out the weekday lunch trade around the docklands and the city centre, and Monday and Friday took the worst of it, so a room off Baggot Street now lives or dies on Tuesday to Thursday. Then a match at Croke Park or the Aviva doubles a Saturday in Drumcondra or Ballsbridge with almost no warning. August empties the city and September brings it back all at once. Eclyde puts that pattern in your own numbers rather than in the trade press, so the rota follows how you actually trade instead of how you traded last year.

More than most owners have sat down and worked out. Deliveroo, Uber Eats and Just Eat all trade heavily here, and commission commonly runs 25 to 30 percent per order when the platform delivers, less if you deliver yourself. Do the sum on a real Friday rather than a good one. The point is not to leave the apps, because they bring you customers you would never have found. The point is to stop paying a quarter of the order on the regular who has been ordering the same thing from you every fortnight for two years.

They need different halves of the same system. The Camden Street restaurant needs speed at the counter, three apps in one queue and drivers dispatched by half seven. The Ranelagh room needs a floor plan, coursing and a booking that turns up as six rather than four. Eclyde carries both, and you switch on the half you need. A truck at the markets in Stoneybatter is a third case again: a tablet, a card reader and something that keeps working when the signal goes.

Somebody in Dublin who has worked a Saturday night. The team is here, onboarding is done in your kitchen rather than posted to you as a video, and we build your menu and train your staff on site before you go live. That is easy to promise and worth checking, so ask us on the call who exactly answers the phone at nine on a Saturday. It is a small company. You will end up knowing their names.

Honest answer: early. We have no published case studies and no customer names to show you, because inventing them would be the easiest thing on this page and the least defensible. What we do have is a product you can see working in a demo against your own menu, in-person setup, no contract, and a 30-day money-back guarantee. Early sites get the founding team on the phone and real influence over what gets built next. If you want a supplier with fifteen years behind them, that is a fair thing to want and we are not it yet.