About RysTRO
RysTRO is a restaurant POS built in Feni, Bangladesh, by two friends who started with a cold call and a prototype that didn't work yet. Three rules came out of those first months and still run the company: no installation fee, it works on the phone you already own, and it keeps billing when the internet drops.
Meet the founders
How RysTRO started
RysTRO began in late 2025 as two friends in Feni with no restaurant experience and a wrong first idea. We started out building software for pharmacies. We walked into local shops, showed it around, and nobody cared. One night the thought was simply: restaurants. The next morning we searched restaurants in our own town on Google, took the phone numbers listed there, and started calling.
The first owner who said yes was still setting up his restaurant — it hadn't opened. He wanted to see a demo, so we went. The honest part: what we showed him was a front-end prototype with nothing behind it. He didn't mind. He sat with us and explained how a restaurant actually runs — tables, kitchen tickets, purchase orders, suppliers — everything we didn't know. He became our first customer, and most of what RysTRO is today started as his list.
We knew nothing about servers then. Our first plan was to install a program on his computer and walk away. Then it hit us: if an owner pays monthly, his data has to live somewhere safer than one PC that can die, get stolen or be formatted. So we rented the smallest cloud server we could find and put his restaurant on it. RysTRO has been online ever since.
The installation fee
The second owner we approached was already using a Dhaka software. He had paid a one-time installation fee for it and told us plainly: "I paid that once. I'm not paying it again." That one sentence changed the company. We went back two weeks later with a different offer: no installation fee, no contract, pay only the month you use. He switched.
That has been the rule since. No installation fee, ever. A small café and a three-branch group get the same software; the only difference is the monthly plan.
The phone in your pocket
Our first version only worked well on a laptop or PC. When we ran our first Facebook ads, most of the people who messaged us had neither — they ran their shop from a phone. We stopped, and asked a better question: what if an owner never had to buy a device at all?
That became the second rule: RysTRO runs on the phone you already own. A ৳1,500 Bluetooth thermal printer beside the counter, the app on an Android phone or tablet, and the whole counter is done — bills, kitchen tickets, tables, reports. We rebuilt the app to fit every screen, and today more than half of the restaurants on RysTRO print their bills from a phone. Dedicated POS terminals and PCs are welcome, but nobody needs one to start.
Offline, because the internet here isn't a given
Every feature was shaped by Bangladeshi dinner rushes: load-shedding, broadband that drops at 8 pm, a queue at the counter. So RysTRO is offline-first. Orders, kitchen tickets, table moves, voids and cash bills keep working with no internet and sync back automatically when the connection returns. Owners stop falling back to paper the moment the WiFi blinks.
Where we are now
Dozens of restaurants, cafés, juice bars and food stalls across Bangladesh run on RysTRO every day, most of them found us through a video, a friend's recommendation or a Google search, and all of them pay month to month. We still answer every support message ourselves, usually on WhatsApp, usually within minutes. Our line is simple and we mean it: আপনার ফোনেই পুরো রেস্টুরেন্ট। — your whole restaurant, on your phone.
What we believe
- Software should survive the real world — outages included.
- Price shouldn't gatekeep good tools — a small café deserves the same reliability as a chain.
- Your data is yours — export it and leave any time; no lock-in.
- Built in Bangladesh, for restaurants everywhere — bilingual, mobile-banking aware, and honest about what it does.