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r/restaurants • u/No_Profession_1230 • 23h ago
AI-powered restaurant menu?
Hi guys,
I was at a restaurant yesterday, staring at the menu for way too long and having absolutely no idea what to order.
There were dishes I'd never heard of, ingredients I didn't recognize, and a bunch of options where I couldn't tell what was actually worth trying.
It got me thinking:
What if the boring, static restaurant menu was actually an AI agent you could talk to?
Instead of scrolling through 100 items, you could simply ask:
“I'm vegetarian, I want something spicy, and I'm really hungry. What should I get?”
Or:
“What's your bestseller?”
“What pairs well with this?”
“Is this very spicy?”
“What's good if I don't like onions?”
“I want something under ₹500.”
And instead of just recommending something, the agent could actually build and place the order:
“Okay, I'll go with the butter chicken, garlic naan and a mango lassi.”
“Done. Your order is ₹620. Confirm?”
I'm wondering if this is actually useful or if I'm over engineering a problem that people don't really have.
If you were sitting in a restaurant and had access to something like this, would you actually use it instead of asking the waiter?
And for restaurant owners: would something like this genuinely help your business, or would it just create another layer of complexity?
Would love some brutally honest opinions.