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The operating system for African restaurants.

One dashboard for online reservations, M-Pesa deposits, WhatsApp & SMS confirmations, guest CRM, analytics, kitchen display, and QR menu & ordering — from the booking page diners see, to the kitchen and floor plan your team runs during service.

First 50 restaurants get 2 months free and 1:1 onboarding
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See it in action

A real Friday night,
in one screen.

app.getkaramu.com · Acacia Bistro Westlands · Today
Live

Today

Friday, 2 May · 11:36
Search guests, bookings…
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Walk-in New booking
Live · Friday lunch service
Service starts in 24 minOpen floor
184
covers booked today
12/2843%
tables seated now
3
arriving next 15 min
2
on the waitlist
84%
pacing — on track
Service timeline
Today's reservations
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T-01
Window · 2
T-02
Window · 2
T-03
Window · 2
T-04
Indoor · 2
T-05
Indoor · 2
T-06
Indoor · 4
T-07
Indoor · 4
T-08
Indoor · 4
T-09
Garden · 4
T-10
Garden · 4
T-11
Garden · 4
T-12
Garden · 6
12:00Brian Ouma· 4
12:30Wanjiru Kamau· 2
13:00David Njoroge· 3
13:15Achieng Otieno· 2
13:30Lucy Wambui· 5
18:30Mwangi Kimani· 6
19:00Aisha Hassan· 4
19:15Tom Mboya· 2
19:30Kamau Mwangi· 3
20:00Selamawit Tadesse· 2
20:00Faith Njeri· 4
20:30Ngozi Adichie· 6
Arriving
Up next · 30 min
13:00
David Njoroge
3p · T-07
Confirmed
13:15
Achieng Otieno
2p · T-02
Confirmed
13:30
Lucy Wambui
5p · T-15
Pending
18:30
Mwangi Kimani
6p · T-18
Confirmed
Covers · this week
1,298↑ 9.8%
vs 1,182 last week
WMQ
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
Sun
Avg cover
KES 1,480+3%
No-show rate
6.2%↓ 3.2pp
Repeat rate
47%+5pp
M-Pesa today
28.4k32 tx
For you
Heads-up
VIP at 19:30
Mwangi K. · table 04 · anniversary
Allergy at 13:00
Lucy W. · severe nut allergy
Reply needed
Achieng O. asked about high chair
Why restaurants are switching

Real outcomes,
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 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 live, study and work in Tokyo — a city where hospitality is an art, and the software behind it is invisible. I've watched one quiet operating system connect a neighbourhood restaurant to travellers from every corner of the world: tables that fill themselves, service that flows, revenue that compounds. My work keeps taking me across Africa, and the gap is impossible to unsee. Kenya is becoming the heart of African tourism and its restaurants are world-class — but the systems that power hospitality everywhere else were never made for Africa. Not for M-Pesa, not for WhatsApp, not for the way we actually run a Friday night. Karamu closes that gap — built for Africa, and proudly of it.

Nairobi · 2026

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