# AI for Restaurant & Café Owners

> Plain-English AI for restaurant and café owners: menu copy that sells, catering quotes the same afternoon, review replies that win the next guest, and the rules that protect your guests, your staff, and your name.

*AI on the Job: Restaurant & Café Owners Edition · Series 019 of 025 · Trades & Main Street · 2027 edition*

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.

## Formats

- **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

## What it takes off your hands

eleven hours a week.

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

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.

## Contents

1. Your Head Start
2. The 30-Minute Setup
3. How to Talk to It
4. Menus, Specials, and the Catering Quote That Books
5. The Front Door — Guest Messages That Don’t Eat Your Day
6. Money and Vendors — Paper Trails That Write Themselves
7. Reviews — This Business’s Oxygen
8. Back of House — The Clipboard That Writes Itself
9. Filling Seats
10. The Rules You Can’t Afford to Break
11. Tools of the Trade
12. Your First 30 Days

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

## Free from this book

- [The Machine Has Never Eaten Here](../read/019-ai-on-the-job-restaurant-cafe-owners-edition.html) — the opening, 2,200 words, complete
- [All 150 prompt titles](../prompts/019-ai-on-the-job-restaurant-cafe-owners-edition.html)

## Questions

**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.


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*AI on the Job Press · Greenlight Publishing · 2027 edition*