1
Your menu becomes the source of truth
Upload a menu, POS export, or photos. AI-R builds categories, modifiers, pricing, website content, order flows, and AI-R Host vocabulary from the same restaurant data.
How AI-R works
One restaurant brain.Many ways to use it.
AI-R is not another dashboard bolted onto a POS. It is the shared operating layer behind the POS, website, AI-R Host, printers, delivery, reservations, loyalty, recipes, inventory, and Maestro.
2
Service captures what actually happens
Orders, table activity, staff time, delivery channels, printers, loyalty, reservations, and phone calls all feed the same operating record instead of seven separate dashboards.
3
Maestro turns the record into action
Ask in AI-R or Claude Desktop: what changed, what should I fix, which item is losing money, what printer failed, which channel needs attention, and what to do next.
Day 1 cutover
The first goal is simple: run service.
We do not need owners to master fifteen products before the first order. The day-one plan is normal POS cutover work, tracked in AI-R and backed by Orion project steps.
POS and table map
KDS and printer routing
Website and online ordering
Staff PINs, roles, and timeclock
Menu, modifiers, 86s, and channel pricing
Reservations and waitlist
The 30 / 60 / 90 ramp
Day 7
AI-R Host readiness
Run browser, QA, and ElevenLabs tests. Let ambient listening learn how customers actually say menu items before AI-R Host takes live calls.
Day 30
Food cost and inventory
Scan invoices, enter recipes, log waste, and let plate costs become useful enough to guide pricing and shopping.
Day 60
Marketing and loyalty loops
Use real customer, review, and order data to trigger win-backs, direct-order nudges, review requests, and campaign reporting.
Day 90
Operator intelligence
Compare labor, channel mix, menu margin, prep, delivery timing, and marketing outcomes against the restaurant's actual history.
Maestro
Ask the restaurant instead of hunting through reports.
Maestro works inside AI-R and can also be managed from Claude Desktop. The point is not chat for chat's sake. The point is a working operator surface that can answer, configure, troubleshoot, and keep a cutover moving.
What did we sell last night?
Which menu items need better photos?
Did the last DoorDash order print?
What time did Robbie clock in today?
Am I better off paying OpenTable or running ads?
Which recipes are missing invoice costs?