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AI Automation

AI that runs the busywork,
so you can run the restaurant.

Your restaurant generates thousands of data points a day. AI connects them, acts on them, and hands you the decision — not the spreadsheet.

What We Do

One AI layer across your
entire operation

Every restaurant has the same pain points: too many manual hours, marketing that never gets done, and decisions made on last month’s numbers. We deploy purpose-built AI on top of the systems you already use to fix each one.

In Detail

What we do, how we do it,
and what you get

Every capability below is scoped, configured, and managed by us. You approve the outputs — you don’t operate the software.

AI Social Marketing

Consistent organic posting and paid ads across Meta and TikTok — without hiring a content person. The AI generates on-brand content, schedules the cadence, launches and optimizes paid campaigns, and A/B tests creative.

What We Do

We run your entire social presence — organic content, paid campaigns, and creative testing — so marketing happens consistently even when service is slammed.

How We Do It

  • AI generates on-brand captions, Reels scripts, and carousels from your menu and photos
  • Schedules and publishes at optimal times for your audience
  • Launches and manages paid campaigns on Facebook and Instagram against your guest data
  • A/B tests creative and offer types; reallocates budget to top performers

What You Get

A monthly content calendar, scheduled posts across all three platforms, managed ad campaigns with spend and performance reporting, and an ongoing creative-testing loop.

Facebook

AI-generated posts and event promotion, plus paid campaigns that optimize spend in real time against your real guest data.

Instagram

Reels scripts, carousel captions, and story cadence — generated, scheduled, and tuned to what your audience actually engages with.

TikTok

Trend-aware short-form concepts and creative testing so your kitchen content reaches new local guests without a full-time creator.

AI Scheduling

Labor schedules built from real demand, not gut feel. The AI reads your actual sales patterns and drafts a week of shifts matched to forecasted covers — with your labor-cost target baked in.

How We Do It

  • Connect POS sales history, reservations system, and local event calendar
  • AI forecasts covers by daypart and day of week, adjusting for weather and local events
  • Draft schedule generated against your hourly labor-cost target
  • Manager reviews, adjusts, and approves — typically under 30 minutes

What You Get

A weekly demand-matched draft schedule with labor-cost guardrails and a sub-30-minute manager approval flow.

Predictive Ordering

Order the right quantities so you stop wasting food and stop 86'ing best-sellers. The AI learns your item-level velocity and tells you exactly what to order, from which vendor, before each order cycle.

How We Do It

  • AI learns item-level sales velocity from POS history over a rolling window
  • Factors in weather, local events, holidays, and seasonal patterns
  • Recommends par levels and order quantities per vendor per order cycle
  • Tracks actual vs. forecasted usage and refines over time

What You Get

Weekly par recommendations and per-vendor order sheets, plus a waste-tracking view showing variance between ordered and used.

Guest Sentiment Engine

Never miss a review and never respond out of voice. The AI monitors every major review platform, classifies what guests are saying, and drafts replies that sound like you — flagging the urgent ones for immediate manager attention.

How We Do It

  • Pulls live reviews from Google, Yelp, and TripAdvisor into a unified inbox
  • Classifies sentiment and recurring themes (food quality, service, wait times, value)
  • Drafts on-brand responses for 1-click review and publish
  • Flags 1–2★ reviews and escalates to a manager alert within minutes

What You Get

A unified review inbox with AI-drafted responses, a weekly theme summary report, and real-time low-rating alerts.

Automated Reporting

A written weekly business summary instead of digging through dashboards. The AI pulls your numbers, computes what matters, writes plain-English commentary, and lands in your inbox before the week starts.

How We Do It

  • Integrates with POS, labor, and food-cost data sources
  • Computes prime cost, labor percentage, food cost percentage, and net sales vs. prior week
  • Writes narrative commentary explaining variances in plain English
  • Emails a formatted Monday AM report; optional daily flash summary available

What You Get

A Monday email report with KPIs, variance flags, and written narrative commentary — no login required, no dashboard to dig through.

Guest Re-engagement

Automatically bring back lapsed guests and fill slow nights without lifting a finger. The AI segments your guest list and triggers the right offer to the right person at the right time.

How We Do It

  • Segments guest list into lapsed (60+ days), birthday window, VIP, and slow-night candidates
  • Triggers personalized email or SMS with a relevant offer timed to your slowest dayparts
  • A/B tests subject lines and offer types to improve open and redemption rates over time
  • Tracks redemptions and calculates return on each campaign

What You Get

Automated win-back, birthday, and slow-night campaigns running continuously, with redemption tracking and campaign performance reports.

AI Chatbot Intake

Answer guests and capture leads 24/7 on your website and Instagram — even when the team is slammed or the restaurant is closed. The AI handles the repetitive questions so staff can focus on the floor.

How We Do It

  • Train the assistant on your menu, hours, policies, private-event packages, and FAQs
  • Deploy to website chat widget and Instagram DM inbox simultaneously
  • Handles reservation and booking handoff directly to your reservation system or inbox
  • Captures catering and private-event leads and routes them to a designated email or CRM

What You Get

A website and Instagram DM assistant, automated lead capture for events and catering, and a tuned FAQ knowledge base maintained for your venue.

Staff Comms Automation

Keep the team aligned without the endless group texts. The AI pushes the right information to the right staff at the right moment — and confirms they received it.

How We Do It

  • Sends automated 86 alerts to front-of-house as items are flagged out in the POS
  • Pushes shift reminders and schedule changes directly to staff phones
  • Delivers bite-size training clips and policy updates with a read-confirmation tap
  • Logs acknowledgements so managers can see who has and hasn't seen critical updates

What You Get

Automated shift and 86 alerts, training-clip delivery via SMS or app, and an acknowledgement log visible to managers.

How It Works

From kickoff to autopilot

Step 1

Connect

We integrate with your POS, reservations, payroll, and review platforms — read-only, no rip-and-replace.

Step 2

Configure

We tune each AI tool to your menu, brand voice, labor targets, and market.

Step 3

Automate

Scheduling, ordering, marketing, reviews, and reporting start running on autopilot.

Step 4

Optimize

The system learns from your results and we refine monthly for compounding gains.

What Changes

The first 90 days, typically

12 hrs/wk

Manual admin time recovered

20%

Less food waste from smarter ordering

100%

Reviews responded to within 24 hours

Deliverables

What you actually get

You can start with the single highest-pain area and expand, or deploy the full stack. Either way, here is what we set up and hand over.

  • AI scheduling configuration integrated with your POS and reservation system
  • Predictive ordering dashboard with weekly par recommendations
  • Social content calendar and Meta/TikTok ad campaign setup
  • Review aggregation and response system with approval workflow
  • Automated weekly P&L and KPI report delivered to operator inbox
  • Guest re-engagement campaign setup (email or SMS)
  • Staff training on all AI tools with documentation

FAQ

Questions operators ask

Do I need to replace my POS or any existing software?+

No. We integrate with your existing POS (Toast, Square, etc.), reservation system, and payroll. AI sits on top of what you already use — it reads the data, not replaces the system.

How long does it take to get AI automation running?+

Core tools (scheduling, ordering, reporting) are live within 2–3 weeks. Marketing and review systems go live in week 3–4. Full deployment is typically 4–6 weeks.

What AI tools do you use?+

We use a combination of purpose-built restaurant AI platforms and custom configurations on top of leading AI models. Every tool is selected for your specific stack — we don't force a one-size product.

Can I start with just one piece — like scheduling or social — before doing everything?+

Yes. We modularize AI automation so you can start with the highest-pain area and expand. Most operators start with scheduling or social marketing and add reporting and guest re-engagement in month 2.

Is my guest data and sales data secure?+

All data connections use read-only API integrations where possible. No raw POS data is stored externally. We follow the same data security standards required by your POS provider.

Ready to put AI to work in your restaurant?

Book a free call. We’ll map your biggest time-drains and show you exactly which AI tools would move the needle first — no obligation, no jargon.