Kelso Company Founder Turns Six Sigma on the Kitchen Clipboard
LinePilot replaces paper food-safety logs with photo-verified proof; pilot opens to Pacific Northwest independents
KELSO, Wash. — Sept. 16, 2026 — Every independent restaurant in America runs food safety on a clipboard. Temperatures, cooling logs, sanitizer checks, closing tasks — written by hand, much of it filled in at the end of a shift from memory, none of it verifiable after the fact.
Tony Katzenberger got tired of that in his own kitchen.
Katzenberger spent 36 years in manufacturing as a Six Sigma Master Black Belt, building the kind of quality systems where a step either happened or it didn't — no memory, no maybe, no filling it in later. Then he and his wife MacKensey took on a commercial kitchen in Clark County, and he watched the most heavily regulated work in the building get tracked on a clipboard.
So he built LinePilot: an 11-inch tablet that mounts on the kitchen wall and walks the crew through the day, step by step, with timers. Cooling logs. Temperature checks. Closing tasks. Each critical step is photo-verified and timestamped as it happens, rather than reconstructed afterward.
“A clipboard tells an inspector what somebody remembered writing down. A timestamped photo tells them what actually happened, at 2:14 on a Tuesday. That's a different conversation.” — Tony Katzenberger, founder, LinePilot
LinePilot runs bilingual in English and Spanish, applies state compliance rules by ZIP code, tracks food handler card expirations, texts managers when a critical task goes overdue, and emails the owner a shift summary every night with tasks, photos, temperatures and hours. It has been running in a working commercial kitchen through 2026.
The system is now opening to a limited pilot group of independent restaurants and food trucks in the Pacific Northwest.
“We built this for kitchens like ours — independents who don't have a compliance department and can't afford a bad inspection. If it didn't work in our own kitchen we wouldn't be selling it.” — MacKensey Katzenberger, owner, Leigh Amor, LLC
What's next in Kelso
LinePilot's next proving ground is closer to home. Katzenberger Holdings is developing a riverfront property in Cowlitz County that will bring together four of the family's food concepts alongside a retail incubator for local startups. Every kitchen on the site will run LinePilot from day one.
Pricing and availability
LinePilot is available now. A terminal is $599 for the 11-inch model or $899 for the 14-inch, with the first year of service included and $95 per year thereafter. The Full Stack tier — photo-verified clock-ins and critical tasks, instant SMS alerts, automatic shift reports, time clock, payroll and scheduling — adds $54 per month, roughly $3 a day. Details at leighamor.com/linepilot.
About Leigh Amor, LLC
Leigh Amor, LLC is a brand portfolio company headquartered in Kelso, Washington. LinePilot is its commercial kitchen compliance and operations platform.
Media contact
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