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AI assistant for kitchen operations

Ask how to calculate food cost percentage, analyze restaurant invoices, or surface food cost variance — the AI pulls from your actual inventory, invoices, POs, and waste data to give actionable answers.

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Analyze price drops

Price Drop Analysis

The most significant price drop occurred for Butter, which decreased from $4.85/lb to $3.12/lb, a reduction of 35.7% on March 20, 2026. This presents a good opportunity to stock up or renegotiate pricing.

In contrast, there have been notable price increases:

  • Olive Oil: Increased from $8.50/L to $11.20/L (31.8%) on April 5, 2026
  • Black Pepper: Increased from $6.75/lb to $8.40/lb (24.4%) on April 5, 2026

These increases may affect menu pricing and should be monitored closely.

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Olive Oil

$8.50/L → $11.20/L

+31.8%

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Ask about food costs, restaurant invoice analysis, and waste trends in plain language

Ask questions about your food cost in restaurant operations, vendor pricing, or inventory in plain language. The AI pulls from your actual data — counts, invoices, POs, and more — to give answers that matter. Ask "what is my food cost percentage this week?" and get an instant, accurate breakdown.

Go beyond insights: the assistant can run restaurant invoice analysis, generate action plans for reducing wastage of food in restaurants, and execute changes directly. Streaming responses keep it fast, and full chat history keeps context across sessions.

Natural language chat

Ask questions in plain English about your restaurant data.

What's my food cost this week?

AI

Your food cost this week is 28.4% ($4,680 / $16,480). That's 1.6% under target.

Which items cost the most?

AI

Top 3 by spend this week:

Chicken Breast$1,240
Salmon Fillet$980
Beef Tenderloin$860

Real-time insights

Instant insights about low stock, POs, price variance, and waste.

🔴3 items below par level — reorder suggested
📦PO-1042 arriving today at 6AM
📈Chicken breast up 12% vs last month
��️Produce waste down 18% this week

Action plans

AI generates validated action plans. Review changes before they happen.

Proposed Action Plan

1Create PO for 3 low-stock items
2Route to Sysco & Local Farm
3Apply locked pricing
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Menu suggestions

AI-assisted menu suggestions based on inventory and pricing.

Based on your current inventory
Seasonal Caprese78% margin

Surplus tomatoes + mozzarella

Herb-Crusted Chicken72% margin

Chicken + basil on hand

Streaming responses

Real-time SSE streaming keeps responses fast and interactive.

Streaming…

Analyzing your inventory data across 3 locations. Found 7 items below par. Generating reorder suggestions

248ms latency
Real-time

Context-aware

Scope-aware data assembly pulls the right data for every conversation.

Active Context

InventoryVendorsInvoicesWastePrice HistoryCOGS

Location: Downtown · Period: This month

Data points: 1,240 records assembled

Chat history

Full conversation history with session management.

Food cost analysis

12 messages

Today

Vendor comparison

8 messages

Yesterday

Reorder suggestions

5 messages

Mar 28

Waste reduction plan

15 messages

Mar 25

Feedback loop

Rate AI responses to improve accuracy. Usage telemetry keeps costs predictable.

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Accuracy

94%

↑ 3% this month

Avg Response

1.2s

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