Stream Partnership Announcement

AI is quickly changing how guests discover, decide, and order food. For restaurants, that shift creates a major opportunity: capture new demand from AI assistants and agentic ordering platforms without giving up margins, pricing control, or guest relationships.

Bites enables restaurants to accept direct, AI-powered orders with no commissions, no markups, and full ownership of guest profile. With Stream** integration**, Bites can connect restaurants to real-time menus, pricing, modifiers, and order routing—making AI-native ordering operationally simple for >30k restaurants.

Customers place orders conversationally within platforms like ChatGPT — for example,

Deliver from Ramen-San near me: 2 Gluten-free Kimchi Chicken, 1 Sumo Bowl regular and 2 Fried Chicken Buns.

Order a group office meal from Boltiful Fresh Kitchen in Santa Clara for 20 people, budget $15–18 per person. 5 are vegetarian and avoid fish for the whole order because 2 have allergies. Add a few desserts.

Stream has long focused on simplifying menu and order management across restaurant technology stacks, including POS connectivity, real-time menu sync, and order flow across platforms. In a recent partner spotlight, Stream described its role as the “plumbing” that allows AI ordering partners to connect into restaurant systems with accurate menu data, pricing, and modifiers.

With Bites and Stream together, restaurants can turn AI assistants like ChatGPT into a new direct ordering channel—without tablets, manual menu management, or expensive marketplace economics.

What is Bites?

Bites is an AI-native ordering platform that helps restaurants grow in AI-native world while preserving margins and guest relationships.

Bites combines the selection and convenience of third-party marketplace with the economics and control of first-party in the AI-native world.

Bites interprets the customer’s intent, builds the cart, processes payment, and routes the order directly to the restaurant, fully integrated with POS systems. Bites also returns transaction value back to restaurants and POS partners. Instead of paying 30%+ commissions to third-party marketplaces, restaurants pay a simple flat fee per order. Guests always see in-store pricing, without any price markups or hidden fees.

Features

• Conversational, AI-powered ordering across ChatGPT, Claude, and more

• AI-native cart building, payment processing, and order routing

• In-store pricing, with no markups or hidden fees

• 1-click checkout and native payment integration

Benefits

• Unlock a new growth channel through agentic ordering

• Increase margins by eliminating third-party delivery commissions

• Strengthen direct customer relationships and loyalty

• Reduce operational friction across menu, payment, and POS workflows

Guests can try Bites directly inside ChatGPT here

Technology Behind the Partnership

For AI ordering to work at restaurant scale, it needs more than a conversational interface. It needs accurate menu data, live pricing, modifiers, availability, and reliable order injection into the restaurant’s existing systems.

That is where Stream comes in.

Through Stream, Bites can support real-time menu sync, accurate item and modifier data, and direct order flow into restaurant ecosystem. Stream’s infrastructure helps eliminate the operational complexity that often slows down new ordering channels, especially for multi-unit brands managing different POS systems, menus, and store-level configurations.

The partnership also enables 1-click onboarding from Stream into Bites, allowing eligible restaurants and partners to activate AI-native ordering faster. Instead of managing another integration project, brands can use Stream’s connectivity layer to make their existing menu and order infrastructure available to Bites.

The result is a simpler path from discovery to transaction:

• Guest asks an AI assistant to order food via Bites.

• Guests converses with the assistant and builds the cart with Stream menu sync.

• On payment confirmation, Restaurant receives the order directly through Stream.

For restaurants, the experience gives a new direct ordering channel. For guests, it feels as easy as having a conversation.

Looking Ahead: AI as a Margin and Growth Lever for Restaurants

AI ordering is not just another interface. It is a new demand layer!

As consumers increasingly use AI assistants to search, compare, and complete everyday tasks, restaurants need a way to participate in that behavior without recreating the economics of third-party delivery marketplaces. The next phase of restaurant ordering will be shaped by platforms that can make transactions feel effortless for guests while keeping control, data, and margin with the operator.

The next decade of Online Food ordering won't be won by the biggest app today— but by the fairest network for Restaurants and Consumers that is AI-native

Together, Bites and Stream are helping restaurants turn AI from a buzzword into a practical growth channel—one that preserves in-store pricing, routes orders directly, and gives brands ownership over the customer relationship.

For POS providers, third-party ordering channels, and multi-unit restaurant brands, the partnership also creates a faster way to support agentic ordering without building every integration from scratch. Stream simplifies the menu and order infrastructure. Bites brings the AI-native ordering experience. Restaurants get a new channel that works with the systems they already use.

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Reach out to contact@withbites.com or sign up on this Form and mention “Stream” as POS to turn on AI-native orders for your restaurant brands.