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title: "Restaurant Product Design Practice | Parmis Meshgi"
description: "A hiring guide to Parmis Meshgi's restaurant product design work across research, prototypes, testing, delivery, AI, and design systems."
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author: "Parmis Meshgi"
location: "Toronto, Canada"
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last_updated: "2026-09-29"
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> A hiring guide to Parmis Meshgi's restaurant product design work across research, prototypes, testing, delivery, AI, and design systems.

Canonical page: [https://meshgi.com/restaurant-product-design/](https://meshgi.com/restaurant-product-design/)

[← All work](https://meshgi.com/product-design/)

For product design hiring teams

# Restaurant problems.
Evidence to release.

I design restaurant software with the people who use it, then stay close through testing, implementation, and release.

Best place to start Bar Tabs

The clearest end-to-end story of field research, prototypes, testing, and shipped work.

[Open Bar Tabs →](https://meshgi.com/bar-tabs/)

Role evidence

## The work matches the full product cycle.

Each point below links to the case study with the strongest proof.

01 · Research

### Talk with restaurant teams

Bar Tabs includes interviews with 15 waitstaff and managers, customer sessions, competitive research, Smart Serve training, and work behind a bar.

[See the field research →](https://meshgi.com/bar-tabs/#decisions)

02 · Prototype

### Make ideas testable early

Kiosk quantity controls moved through five concepts, eight refinements, paper tests, hardware trials, two voting rounds, and one shipped rule set.

[See the Kiosk test →](https://meshgi.com/kiosk/#decisions)

03 · Delivery

### Stay through implementation

POS and Backoffice work records responsive rules, component behavior, engineering handoff, staged releases, and build review.

[See shipped platform patterns →](https://meshgi.com/pos/#product)

04 · Product depth

### Learn the operating system

The work connects POS, Kiosk, Bar Tabs, and Backoffice. Each decision accounts for permissions, hardware, service states, and connected workflows.

[Compare the four products →](https://meshgi.com/product-design/#projects)

05 · AI

### Use AI inside the work

I use connected sources to synthesize research, compare concepts, check current product rules, build prototypes, and preserve decisions.

[Read the AI practice →](https://meshgi.com/ai-design-practice/)

06 · Systems

### Return patterns to the system

The shared POS keyboard, responsive guidance, Menu Management components, and navigation rules reduce repeated design and engineering decisions.

[See the component decisions →](https://meshgi.com/backoffice/#decisions)

07 · Critique

### Show unfinished work

The Quick Menu record keeps rejected directions, critique notes, and the reason version six won. The case studies explain tradeoffs, limits, and open measures.

[See the iteration record →](https://meshgi.com/backoffice/#decisions)

08 · Shipping

### Separate release from intent

Every case study labels released, partial, proposed, and unmeasured work. Kiosk and POS include dated production footprints.

[See the release evidence →](https://meshgi.com/kiosk/#result)

Suggested reading path

## Four pages. Four kinds of proof.

[01 · Research and service pressure

### Bar Tabs

Start here for interviews, field learning, prototypes, usability sessions, and shipped Phase 1 work.

Open case study →](https://meshgi.com/bar-tabs/)[02 · Testing on real hardware

### Kiosk

Read this for accessibility, printed prototype testing, physical input, recovery, and production review.

Open case study →](https://meshgi.com/kiosk/)[03 · Systems and critique

### Backoffice

Read this for dense records, permissions, reusable components, rejected directions, and staged delivery.

Open case study →](https://meshgi.com/backoffice/)[04 · Platform and release

### POS

Read this for responsive rules, shared inputs, hardware states, engineering use, and released patterns.

Open case study →](https://meshgi.com/pos/)

This guide follows the role focus in the[7shifts Product Designer posting](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/7shifts/jobs/4832851004) , reviewed September 29, 2026.

[Open my resume →](https://meshgi.com/resume/)