// November 14, 2024

Built From A
Thumb Drive.
Not A VC.

I own Frizby's — a restaurant in Alabama. On November 14, 2024 my entire digital setup was a thumb drive, a TV, and a static picture on the screen for a menu.

The software everyone told me to use was expensive, complicated, and built for someone else's business. So I built my own. MenuSpace is what happened next.

Full transparency — Frizby is our alien mascot. He's been the face of Frizby's since day one. Now he's the face of MenuSpace too. Felt right.

Frizby
👽 Frizby · Co-founder
// The Real Story
How We Got Here
November 14, 2024
Day Zero — A Thumb Drive and a TV
The whole digital menu setup was a thumb drive plugged into a TV showing a static image. No ordering. No KDS. No tracking. Just a picture on a screen. It had to change.
Late 2024
Shopping Around — Everything Sucked
Looked at Toast. Square. TouchBistro. Every option was either hundreds of dollars a month, required hardware I didn't want, took a percentage of sales, or locked data behind their platform. None of it was built for a small operation that just wanted to take orders and run a kitchen.
November 2024
Started Building
Started from scratch. PHP. Flat JSON files — no database, no complex setup. The goal was simple: a restaurant owner should be able to install this on any basic hosting account in 5 minutes without calling a developer.
Early 2025
It Started Working
Online ordering. Kitchen display. Real-time orders. Receipt designer. Multi-location with GPS. Manager accounts. Stripe payments with webhook verification. A social media studio that generates branded cards and videos from your actual menu. All of it — one install, no subscriptions.
February 2026
MenuSpace Ships
$199. One time. Yours forever. No database. No monthly fee. No percentage of your sales. Just software that works — built by someone who actually runs a restaurant and got tired of paying for software that didn't.
Software should
work for you.
Not bill you
forever for it.
🗄️
Zero database. Your data lives in JSON files on your own server. No cloud dependency, no vendor lock-in, no one else's infrastructure between you and your orders.
💰
One price forever. $199 and it's yours. No monthly fees, no renewal, no "enterprise tier" to unlock features you should have had from the start.
🔧
Full source code. You own it. Read it, modify it, deploy it anywhere. No black box, no mysterious updates that break things at dinner rush.
🚀
Built by an operator. Every feature exists because a real restaurant needed it. Not because a product manager in San Francisco thought it sounded good in a meeting.
$0
Monthly fees
0
Databases needed
5min
To install
1
Thumb drive. That started it.
// The Test Kitchen
MenuSpace Runs Frizby's.
Every Single Day.

This isn't vaporware. MenuSpace runs the ordering, KDS, receipts, and marketing for Frizby's — a real restaurant with real customers and real orders. Every feature was built because we needed it first. If it works at Frizby's, it ships.

Visit Frizby's ↗ See the Demo ↗
Frizby
The original customer

Ready To Own
Your Software?

$199 once. No subscriptions. No databases. No nonsense.
Just a restaurant OS built by someone who needed one.

Get MenuSpace — $199 → Try the Demo first
$199. One time. I did the math. 👽
Frizby