AI on the Job AI on the Job Press Cart 0
Cover of AI for Restaurant & Café Owners: a polished silver spoon, bowl at the top, handle running down

019 of 025 · Trades & Main Street

AI for

Restaurant & Café Owners

Something that has never tasted your food is describing it to strangers. This book is the menu copy, the guest replies and the catering quotes you write after close.

Ebook $7.99 · Audiobook $14.99 · instant download · no DRM

eleven hours
a week.

That’s eleven hours in a normal week. Your first week will be slower — you’re learning a tool. By week three, the numbers above are realistic. Chapter 12 gives you the 30-day plan to get there.

Line illustration: an hourglass filled with folded sheets of paper instead of sand

Where the hours come from

  • Chapter 4Menu copy, specials, and catering quotes written after close~2.5 hours
  • Chapter 5Guest messages: reservations, events, follow-ups~2 hours
  • Chapter 6Vendor emails, invoices, the receipts shoebox~1.5 hours
  • Chapter 7Review replies you draft in your head at 1 a.m.~1 hour
  • Chapter 8Prep lists, checklists, training write-ups~2 hours
  • Chapter 9Marketing you keep putting off~2 hours
Contents

Twelve chapters.

Twelve chapters, 150 prompts ready to paste, a glossary in plain words, and a thirty-day plan you can actually keep.

  1. Line illustration: an oversized chef's knife sunk halfway through a thick wooden chopping board under nothing but its own weight, standing there alone on the board, no maker's marks, letters or numbers on the blade, the knife's handle the accent colour 01 Your Head Start
  2. Line illustration: an espresso tamper the size of a sledgehammer resting head-down in a small portafilter basket it completely dwarfs, both entirely plain with no lettering, numbers or maker's marks anywhere, the tamper handle the accent colour 02 The 30-Minute Setup
  3. Line illustration: a pastry piping bag squeezed above a plain white plate, its nozzle extruding a perfectly square-sectioned ribbon of icing that stacks itself into a neat cube, no lettering or numerals anywhere, the nozzle the accent colour 03 How to Talk to It
  4. Line illustration: a small chalkboard specials easel with a stick of chalk taller than the board itself leaning against it, the board wiped completely blank with no lettering, letters or numbers anywhere on it, the chalk the accent colour 04 Menus, Specials, and the Catering Quote That Books
  5. Line illustration: a teetering column of two dozen identical restaurant guest pagers stacked like coasters, all of them entirely blank with no lettering or numbers, the pager at the top of the stack the accent colour 05 The Front Door — Guest Messages That Don’t Eat Your Day
  6. Line illustration: a full-size wooden produce crate, bare and unstencilled with no lettering on it, empty apart from one single lime resting in a corner, the lime the accent colour 06 Money and Vendors — Paper Trails That Write Themselves
  7. Line illustration: an opened oyster shell on crushed ice holding a single five-pointed star where the pearl should be, the star the accent colour 07 Reviews — This Business’s Oxygen
  8. Line illustration: a wooden rolling pin rolling out a sheet of blank paper on a floured bench as though it were pastry, the paper entirely bare with no lettering or numbers on it, the rolling pin handles the accent colour 08 Back of House — The Clipboard That Writes Itself
  9. Line illustration: an outsized cast dinner bell hanging directly above one small empty bistro chair, the bell wider than the chair is tall, nothing cast or engraved into it, the bell the accent colour 09 Filling Seats
  10. Line illustration: a chef's probe thermometer pushed into the centre of a thick closed hardback book as if testing a roast, the cover completely bare and the dial entirely blank with no lettering or numbers, the thermometer the accent colour 10 The Rules You Can’t Afford to Break
  11. Line illustration: a wooden kitchen knife block standing upright, its slots filled with chef's knives and a slim tablet slotted into the widest opening where the cleaver belongs, the tablet's screen dark and blank with no icons or lettering and no marks or brands on the block or the blades, the tablet the accent colour 11 Tools of the Trade
  12. Line illustration: a glass jar of sourdough starter risen so far that it has lifted its lid clear of the rim and is folding over the side, the jar bare with no lettering on it, the lid the accent colour 12 Your First 30 Days

Then: The Prompt Library, Glossary, The AI on the Job Series and About This Edition.

Free, from this book, right now

Read the opening before you decide.

Not a sample that stops mid-sentence — the whole first section, as printed, the title of every prompt in the library, and the guide to the trade.

The opening · 2,200 words The Machine Has Never Eaten Here About 10 minutes. What AI does and does not do in this trade, and why the difference is worth your Tuesday. Read it free → The library · 150 titles Every prompt in the book, by name All eight groups, every numbered title, and twelve of the prompts printed in full so you can use them today. See the list → The field guide · free What AI does for restaurant & café owners The whole answer on one page: the six blocks of writing worth handing over, what each is worth in hours, what the tool gets wrong here, and the words you will meet. Read the guide →
From the Prompt Library

Prompt #1.

Printed exactly as it appears in the book. The yellow parts are the blanks you fill in — there are thousands across the 150 prompts, and they are why this works on your trade rather than a generic one.

COPY THIS — Prompt #1 · Your permanent profile

Paste into the custom instructions / profile box: “I own a [SEATS]-seat [CONCEPT — e.g., neighborhood Italian / fast-casual taqueria / coffee shop with lunch] in [CITY, STATE] called [RESTAURANT NAME]. Average ticket around $[AMOUNT]. We’re known for [2–3 TRUE THINGS]. When I ask you to write anything guest-facing, keep it warm, plain, and brief — no purple prose, no exclamation points, an 8th-grade reading level. Always leave prices as blanks for me to fill in unless I give them to you. Never write anything that promises a dish is allergen-free or safe for a medical diet — flag those requests back to me instead.”

One of 150 in AI for Restaurant & Café Owners.

Formats

Pick how you want it.

Both are downloads and arrive the moment you pay. Prices, delivery and returns.

Line illustration: a single paperback standing in an open postal box exactly its own size
Ebook (EPUB)
EPUB 3 · reflowable · no DRM · 901 KB · about 30,453 words · ISBN 979-8-90623-447-6
$7.99
Audiobook
MP3 · unabridged except the Prompt Library · 2h 26m · 20 tracks · ISBN 979-8-90623-448-3
$14.99
Before you buy

The questions people actually ask.

Do I need to pay for ChatGPT or Claude to use this book?

Not yet. The free tiers of both tools will carry you through this entire book’s TRY IT NOW exercises and your first few weeks of real use. You’ll know it’s time to pay (roughly $20/month) when you hit the free tier’s daily limits during a normal workday — that’s the signal the tool is earning its keep. Chapter 11 covers what the money buys.

Is this book going to tell me AI is coming for my job?

No. It takes the opposite position, and says so on page one: it is a good tool for words, it does not do your job, it does the writing around your job. The book's own last line on it is “this book will not tell you AI is magic. It’s a kitchen tool. Like the slicer, it works fast and it can bite. We’ll show you where the guard goes.” You can read the whole opening, The Machine Has Never Eaten Here, free: 2,200 words, no sign-up.

What is actually in the 150 prompts?

Eight groups: Setup & Voice (1–15), Menus, Specials & Catering Quotes (16–40), Guest Communication (41–65), Money & Vendors (66–85), Reviews & Reputation (86–105), Back of House (106–120), Marketing & Growth (121–145), Admin & Momentum (146–150). Every title is listed free on the prompt page, and twelve of the prompts are printed there in full.

I have never used AI at work. Is this too advanced?

It assumes nothing. Chapter 2 is “The 30-Minute Setup” and Chapter 3 is “How to Talk to It” — the tool is set up and the one real skill is taught before anything else is asked of you. The glossary at the back explains every term the book uses.

How long is it?

It is about 30,453 words across 12 chapters, plus the 150-prompt library and the glossary; the audiobook runs 2h 26m across 20 tracks, measured from the masters on 2026-08-31. Chapters 1–3 take about an hour and everything else depends on them.

What do I actually get, and how is it delivered?

Ebook at $7.99 and Audiobook at $14.99. Both are downloads and arrive the moment you pay — the EPUB has no DRM, so it is yours on any reader. Ebook ISBN 979-8-90623-447-6; Audiobook ISBN 979-8-90623-448-3. There is no printed edition of this one yet.

The last line of the Promise Page

This book will not tell you AI is magic. It’s a kitchen tool. Like the slicer, it works fast and it can bite. We’ll show you where the guard goes.

AI on the Job: Restaurant & Café Owners Edition · page one

Also in Trades & Main Street

Somebody you work with needs one of these.

001 Cover of AI for Auto Repair Shops Auto Repair Shops 002 Cover of AI for Contractors & Construction Managers Contractors & Construction Managers 003 Cover of AI for Electricians Electricians 009 Cover of AI for HVAC Pros HVAC Pros 017 Cover of AI for Plumbing Pros Plumbing Pros 021 Cover of AI for Salon & Barbershop Owners Salon & Barbershop Owners