AI FOR RESTAURANTS & CAFES
Prep and inventory forecasting
Prep is a nightly bet: prep too much and Sunday's salmon hits the bin; prep too little and you're 86'ing the most popular dish at 7:30. Most kitchens bet on gut feel. The AI bets on your actual sales history — plus the weather, the holiday calendar, and the game schedule — and wins more often.
HOW IT WORKS IN YOUR BUSINESS
A Day With This Running.
Not a product demo — a walk through what an ordinary day looks like once this is in place.
It has learned from months of your POS data: what Fridays look like, what rainy Fridays look like, what happens when the college is on break.
'Expect ~180 covers, heavy on the fried chicken (home game), light on salads (rain). Prep sheet attached.' Your chef adjusts and prints it.
The right amounts are prepped. Nothing 86'd at 7:30, nothing drowning in the walk-in Saturday morning.
The produce and protein order reflects what the coming week will actually need — not what last week's panic suggested.
BEFORE & AFTER
What Actually Changes.
▸Before: 4–10% of food cost, quietly
▸After: Cut by a quarter to a half — often $500–$1,500/month
▸Before: Several per week
▸After: Rare — the forecast saw Friday coming
▸Before: Chef's hour, daily
▸After: A 10-minute review of the AI's draft
What it saves, in one line: Food waste down, 86'd items down. For a typical small restaurant, even a 10% cut in waste is thousands of dollars a year.
GETTING SET UP
Simpler Than You'd Think.
No rip-and-replace, no new systems to learn, nothing goes live without your say-so. Here's the whole process:
- ▸We connect to your POS history — that's the fuel; most systems export it easily.
- ▸Your chef sanity-checks the forecasts for a couple of weeks while the model learns your specials and seasonality.
- ▸From then on it's a daily prep sheet and a weekly order draft, both reviewed by a human before anything's bought or prepped.
Your sales data is the financial X-ray of your restaurant. This runs on private AI infrastructure we own and operate, so those numbers never leave your control — and no vendor can hold your forecasting hostage to a price hike. Learn more about Private AI →
GET STARTED
Want this running in your business?
Tell us a bit about your business and we'll come back with honest, plain-English ideas about whether this fits — and what it would take. No jargon. No pressure. No obligation.
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