Dynamic pricing for Tokyo’s premium restaurant queues.
ifasto is live infrastructure for monetizing wait time at the venues tourists travel for. Built for restaurants. Engineered for revenue.
Section 1 · Live demo · paused
See the engine in motion.
A simulated premium restaurant in Tokyo. Real API calls to ifasto’s production pricing engine, updating every five seconds as the queue evolves.
The pricing engine is XGBoost-based (L1 wait prediction) feeding a multiplier-based pricing layer (L4) with hard caps on large-party inventory. The system targets a 12–15% conversion band on queued customers, self-regulating in real time. Calibrated against direct field observation from May 2026.
Section 2 · Mechanism
Four multipliers. One outcome.
ifasto’s pricing engine computes the optimal skip-pass price by combining four factors. Each is calibrated to keep premium purchases in the 12–15% sweet spot — high enough to generate meaningful revenue, low enough to preserve the regular queue experience.
Self-regulating, not arbitrary.
As more customers buy skip passes, the premium pressure multiplier rises automatically, slowing further purchases until the system returns to the target band. The mechanism protects the regular queue while maximizing extraction from peak demand.
Anchored to the venue.
The base price is set per venue, calibrated to average check size. A premium ramen shop and a Michelin-starred sushi house get fundamentally different price points without manual tuning.
Hard caps on large parties.
A party-of-six skip pass requires giving up a scarce six-top table. The engine enforces a one-per-service hard cap on these by default, configurable per venue. Pricing logic doesn’t run for caps that are full.
Section 3 · Restaurant calculator
What this means for your restaurant.
Enter your venue’s numbers. See your projected incremental revenue.
Your projection
Enter your venue’s numbers and click Calculate my upside to see projected weekly, monthly, and annual revenue.
Section 4 · Partnership
Zero downside. Zero install.
ifasto carries every risk in the partnership — build cost, infrastructure cost, model-development cost, and the operational risk of pricing it wrong. Restaurants only ever receive money.
The restaurant pays nothing.
No setup fee. No monthly fee. No minimum guarantee. ifasto absorbs the cost of building, hosting, and running the pricing engine. The restaurant’s only ledger entry from this partnership is incoming revenue — 70% of every skip-pass sold.
Live in an afternoon.
A single API webhook into your existing POS or reservation system. No software for your staff to learn. No new hardware on the floor. The pricing engine runs on ifasto’s infrastructure; nothing is deployed on your premises.
Month-to-month, no lock-in.
No annual contracts. Stop any time, for any reason, with one email. The partnership renews on results, not paperwork.