Melody · LAX

Nalu Vida · Venice

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Start here · about 10 minutes

🍞 Set up your reward buttons in Toast

Until Toast approves the full connection (about 30 days), guests redeem with a live pass on their phone and your server taps one of these buttons in Toast. Antidote can do it with you on a call.

Free-item buttons take 100% off one item: the server picks the item on the check first, then taps the button. Never use them for alcohol (California ABC).

🖨️ Open the printable Toast sheet (staff steps included) 💬 Text Antidote to do it together

Menu photos

📸 Photos we still need

Tap 📷 Add photo next to a dish, take or pick a picture, then send it to Antidote (Messages, AirDrop or email to secondshiftai@gmail.com). It's already named for the right dish, and it goes into your app within a day.

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Tips: daylight or bright light, plate fills the frame, no hands or napkins. Phone photos are perfect.

Christian, here's the game plan 🤝

Melody Bar & Grill + Nalu Vida · everything we've built, where the Toast integration stands, what it costs on our side, and what's next.

🔌 Toast integration: started ✅

Submitted · pending Toast review

You asked for full Toast integration before launch, so no manual steps for your staff. We've started it. This is the official Toast Loyalty Program Integration:

Guests earn points automatically on every eligible Toast check
Game, sign-up, birthday and referral points go to the same balance
Staff look up the guest on the Toast POS and tap Redeem
Points come off automatically, and each reward can only be used once

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Toast API Documentation License Agreement signedOct 12, 2026 · SousShift AI (Antidote Enterprises LLC)
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Toast Integration Request Application submittedOct 12, 2026 · names Melody Bar & Grill and Nalu Vida as the restaurants asking for it
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Toast review & partner approvalPending. Toast says up to 30 days. A quick note from you to your Toast rep saying you want SousShift loyalty connected helps move it up.
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Build the loyalty connectionAbout 2–3 weeks after Toast approves
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Toast testing & certificationAbout 1–3 weeks, run by Toast
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Demo the full Toast workflow for you, then a staff test at Melody during normal serviceNothing launches until you approve it
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Launch → 90-day pilot at each restaurantMonthly billing starts only after your written approval

Phase 2: app orders going straight into Toast and the kitchen use a separate Toast API (Orders) that needs its own approval. It doesn't hold up launch.

Updated Oct 12, 2026

⏱️ While we wait for Toast: interim mode

About 30 days · no staff phones

Guests can download the app, play the game, earn points and redeem rewards starting now. Your staff never pick up their own phones.

Redeeming: "show & tap." The guest taps Use reward on their phone. A live reward pass appears with a moving background, a ticking clock and a 10-minute countdown, so screenshots don't work. The points come off right away and it can only be used once. Your server looks at it and taps the matching preset discount button in Toast (for example "App Reward – Free Fries").

Earning: "snap the receipt." After paying, the guest taps Add my visit and takes a photo of the Toast receipt, or types the check # and total. They get 10 points per $1 right away. Limits: one claim per check, one per day, and a cap per claim.

You stay in control. A manager log shows every reward used and every receipt claim, with Approve and Flag buttons, so you or Sami can spot-check against Toast's daily sales report.

One-time setup, about 10 minutes: we add 4–5 reward discount buttons in Toast Web with you.

When Toast approves, earning becomes automatic and Redeem moves into Toast. Every guest's points and membership carry over. Interim mode costs nothing per month: your monthly billing still starts only after the Toast integration is approved, and the 90-day pilot starts then too.

🧾 What SousShift is covering for the Toast integration

No extra cost to you. Toast integration is included in your pricing. To be a Toast partner, though, SousShift has to carry insurance that Toast requires in its API terms, and pay for the build and hosting. We cover all of it:

🛡️ General liability insurance · $1M per claim / $2M total, Toast named on the policy	required
🛡️ Professional (E&O) insurance · $2M	required
🛡️ Cyber liability insurance · $5M	required
☁️ Secure server that talks to Toast 24/7	monthly
🛠️ Building, testing & certifying the connection with Toast	4–6 weeks of work
Insurance alone (estimate)	≈ $2,500–$7,000/yr

Insurance figure is an estimate for a small software company; quotes are being requested. If Toast itself charges the restaurant anything to turn on a partner integration, we'll tell you in writing before it's switched on, and you decide.

💸 What Antidote has already put in

Before any payment, Antidote has built and paid for all of this himself:

81 updates shipped to your two apps (Oct 2 → Oct 12): 288 files, about 60 MB of custom game art, menus, photos and video
AI art & 3D credits (Higgsfield) for your menu photos, 3D food, game characters and scenes: about 580 credits in Oct 10–11 alone, plus a 2,000-credit top-up bought Oct 12 to keep building
Two AI phone hosts (Kira for Melody, Kai for Nalu Vida) on ElevenLabs voice credits
Claude to build and update everything, plus hosting, domains, DocuSign and Twilio (table below)
Print kits for both restaurants: stickers, posters and numbered table cards, all designed and scan-tested
Two promo videos and Antidote's food reviews built into the games

For scale: an agency typically quotes $60k–$150k to build one app like this. You're paying $1,500 setup + $300/month for both.

🏷️ Stickers & print: done for you

Designed & scan-tested

Every sticker, poster and table card is already designed for both restaurants, and every single QR code was scan-tested before it was saved. You don't design, print-hunt or test anything.

Table stickers: square and round for Melody, plus a surfboard-shape for Nalu Vida
Numbered table cards 1–40 for each restaurant. Scanning one opens the app already set to that table
24×36 window posters for the front glass
QR-only version for menus, receipts and napkins

How it gets on your tables: you tell us how many tables and which pieces you want, Antidote places the print order with a local LA print shop (same-day or next-day), and we set them out with you. Matte vinyl, so the codes scan even under bar lighting.

📍 Where to put the QR pieces See the full Melody print kit → See the full Nalu Vida print kit →

💳 Your register (POS): no headache

Nothing to install · no downtime

The app works with whatever register you already use (Toast, Square, Clover, SpotOn, anything). We don't replace it, rewire it, or shut anything down.

Your choice: direct Toast connection before launch. Staff stay in Toast the whole time: look up the guest, tap Redeem, done. No second screen, no typing codes. (Status above.)

Until Toast approves (about 30 days): interim mode. Guests still download the app, play, earn and redeem. Staff never use their phones and only tap a preset button in Toast. Details below.

👆 Tap your register for step-by-step setup

One tap. It opens the exact steps for your system, about 10 minutes, and we can do it with you.

Toast Square Clover SpotOn Lightspeed Revel Other / not sure

✅ Already built for you

Two branded apps, no download: photo menus, 12 languages, rewards, ordering by table
Two custom games: the Melody LAX flight game and the Nalu Vida surf game, with prizes from your menu
You're in the games: the control-tower captain at Melody and the lifeguard at Nalu Vida, talking to players and throwing them a med kit or a cold one when they're hurt
Simple rewards: 10 points per eligible $1 plus capped bonuses for the game, sign-up, birthdays and referrals, with one points balance per restaurant. Your customer list (phone and email) is yours to keep and export.
Your Instagram inside the app, holiday specials, Home Screen icons, full-screen mode
Antidote's food reviews of Melody and Nalu Vida playing as halftime ads inside the games
Owner setup pages with a live "what the app does for you" calculator

🎮 Game updates from your feedback

In progress

Guests can play before registering
Melody: no gunships, missiles, crashes or fire. It's a clean scenic flight over LA
No daily prize wheel, no stacked discounts, one points currency
Game points capped per day, so the program stays under control
Just Landed is now one consistent offer
Third-party logos and branding reviewed and removed

You'll get both final playable versions to approve before launch.

🧾 Payments

Thank you!

✅ Melody Bar LLC: setup Received Oct 12, 2026 · Zelle	$750 paid
⏳ Nalu Vida LLC: setup Due when the Nalu Vida agreement is signed	$750
🗓️ Monthly: $150 per restaurant Starts only after the Toast integration is approved in writing. $0 during interim mode.	not started
Setup paid so far	$750 of $1,500

Two separate agreements: Melody Bar LLC and Nalu Vida LLC, each with its own billing. They're on their way to you by DocuSign.

💰 What you're paying vs. what you're getting

$1,500 one-time setup+ $300/month that covers both restaurants: two separate agreements, $750 + $150/mo each

~$26k–$54kfirst year to piece this together yourself: ordering site, loyalty, texting, reviews, a custom game, photos, design, videos (typical published prices)

$5,100first year with SousShift, both restaurants, one person for everything

It pays for itself with about 7–9 extra visits a month across both spots. Each restaurant has its own agreement, billing, customer list and cancellation rights, with no cross-liability and no personal guarantee. Monthly billing starts only after launch is approved.

Estimates, not promises. Real numbers show up in your owner view as guests join.

See the full cost comparison →

🧰 What it costs to run SousShift

Behind your apps is a stack of paid tools that keeps everything built, updated and running every month. These are the lowest plans for each, the bare minimum:

🤖 Claude · builds and updates every app, game and page	$250
✍️ DocuSign · contracts	$15
🎨 Higgsfield · characters, 3D models, food art	from $9
💬 ChatGPT	from $8
🎙️ ElevenLabs · AI voices for the phone hosts	from $6
📱 Twilio · phone numbers & texting	$1.15 + per text
🌐 Domains	~$1
Minimum every month	≈ $290+

That's before AI credits for new art and 3D models, voice minutes, texting volume and print runs, which all go up as your apps grow. So $300 a month for both restaurants isn't a markup. It's what keeps the lights on for your tech, with one person handling all of it.

Lowest published plan prices as of Oct 2026 (Claude is Antidote's actual plan). Tools are shared across SousShift's restaurants.

📋 Next steps

Review the two separate agreements (Melody and Nalu Vida) and send each LLC's legal name.

OK interim mode by email, and we add the reward buttons in Toast with you (about 10 minutes). Optional: tell your Toast rep you want SousShift loyalty connected.

Play and approve the updated games.

Once Toast approves: watch the full Toast demo, run the staff test at Melody, then pick a go-live date.

Open your onboarding page →

Questions anytime: text Antidote.