AI · Restaurants · Hospitality
A dining room does not need a guest copilot. It needs a menu that matches the board, a reservation that does not collide, and a review reply that sounds like the house. AI is a writer and a reminder system. It is not the host.
Menus: the chef locks allergens and price
Draft descriptions from the actual prep list. A person who works the line confirms allergens, substitutions, and price. In the United States, invented ingredients are not a cute error. They are a plate you cannot stand behind.
- Never generate a menu from a photo of a competitor.
- 86’d items must come from the POS or a staff toggle, not from a model’s memory.
- Happy-hour copy can be drafted; hours and exclusions are staff-only fields.
Reservations and the website
Publish hours, parking, large-party rules, cake policy, and the booking widget. AI can draft SMS reminders from a template you wrote (“Reply C to cancel”). It must not silently drop a table or invent a waitlist position.
Reviews
Draft, edit, send. Same as any Albuquerque shop: the city is small even when the guest is from out of state. Do not offer a free dessert the model invented. If the kitchen messed up, the manager says so.
Staff-facing, not guest-facing, is usually enough
A private SOP assistant (“how do we handle a 12-top on Friday”) trained on your handbook is safer and more useful than a public chat on the site. Guests still want a phone number that a human answers.
How I judge whether the idea is real
I ask three questions on the first call. What job did a person do last week that you want a machine to draft? Who checks the output before a customer sees it? What happens on Friday if we turn the feature off? If you cannot answer those, we are not ready to write a statement of work. We are ready to write the FAQ or the SOP first — and that is often the actual project.
I would rather decline a fashionable chatbot than ship something that lies about hours, stock, refunds or a diagnosis. The invoice has my company’s name on it. That is why the no’s are part of the work.
What you should have in writing before you pay anyone
The job in one sentence. The data the model may see. The human who confirms. The metric you will look at in 30 days. The kill switch. The legal name of the vendor. USD price and when the card is charged. Who owns the repo. If a vendor cannot put those on one page, you are buying a demo.
- Nothing is billed by us before you approve a written scope.
- Typical project billing is 50% to start and 50% on delivery, through Stripe.
- Code, design and prompts we write for you transfer on final payment.
The steps — do these in order
- 01
Get the board and the POS to agree
Prices, 86s, hours. AI cannot fix a menu that is already a lie.
- 02
Draft descriptions from the prep list
A person on the line locks allergens and substitutions.
- 03
Put hours, parking and party rules on the site
Then the reservation widget. Chat is optional and later.
- 04
Template the reminder SMS yourself
The model may fill the time. It may not cancel a table.
- 05
Draft review replies, manager sends
No invented desserts. No arguing about the kitchen in public.
- 06
Keep a private SOP assistant for staff
Handbook only. Safer than a public guest bot.
- 07
Give FOH a kill switch
If the widget quotes yesterday’s hours, it dies before service.
- 08
Do not automate the host
People still want a human at the door. Software should clear the phone, not replace hospitality.
If you want this built as a site, a store, a portal or a production feature, write to me. We scope it on a page, we ship in weekly increments you can click, and you own the work. I will also tell you when the idea is a toy and we should not take your money.
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