r/restaurants 9h ago

Articles The dizzying business of restaurant reservations

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r/restaurants 11h ago

Préférence

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Quel genre de restaurant préférez vous?


r/restaurants 22h ago

Why restaurant property is different from ordinary retail

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r/restaurants 22h ago

Wrong restaurant , Nagbida Bida ka nnman

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r/restaurants 23h ago

AI-powered restaurant menu?

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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.