AI hacks for restaurants & cafés

Gamer making their first game, about their own dog, creates all 25 soundtrack tracks with Suno

A gamer who decided to make a game about their real dog made the whole soundtrack in Suno, from menu themes to battle loops, boss music and a Balkan folk trailer theme.

Spotted on u/Cookiesaner

Restaurant staff photograph the specials board and n8n updates the website

For a low-tech local restaurant, an automation builder set up an n8n flow where anyone scans a QR code, photographs the specials board, and the parsed text goes by email for approval before it posts to the website.

Spotted on u/theautomationsguide

Restaurant owner loads the supplier order guide into ChatGPT and costs every menu item down to the ingredient

Aiming for a 10% profit increase, a restaurant owner loaded their order guide into ChatGPT, had it pull the menu from online, and costed every dish down to the ingredient, giving a view of food cost, yields, margins and where money was leaking.

Spotted on @resellerrowe

Non-developer builds client websites with Claude Code

Someone with no web development background uses Claude Code to design websites for local restaurants, med spas and nonprofits, and has sold six.

Spotted on u/throw656598

Business owner connects Gemini to their Google Business Profile to update listings and draft review replies

After connecting Gemini to their Google Business Profile, a business owner describes asking it in plain language to change hours, menus, photos and booking links, draft review replies, and report how the business did this month.

Spotted on u/Turbulent-Summer8889

Turn 50 customer reviews into 14 ad angles with Claude

A marketer had Claude sort 50 four- and five-star reviews into themes and ad hooks in customers' own words, ready to reuse as social posts.

Took about 25 minutes · their account

Spotted on @Mo_ali

Diner at a German restaurant asks ChatGPT to picture every dish on a menu they couldn't read

Faced with menu names they didn't recognize at a new German restaurant, a diner photographed the menu and asked ChatGPT to make images of the dishes; it produced 9 images covering all 37 items.

Spotted on @tristanbob