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Pay-by-Weight Restaurant Lets AI Draft the Menu for the Owner to Approve
The owner of Cantinho das Delícias, in Diadema, uses a ChatGPT assistant that proposes the menus.
- Profession
- Restaurant Owner, Entrepreneur
- Tools
- ChatGPT
- Source
- exame.com ↗
- Country
- 🇧🇷 Brazil
- Report date
- October 5, 2024
- Verified on
- October 24, 2026
What they did
Ubiratan Ferreira uses ChatGPT for emails, promotional images and an assistant that creates the menus, which he approves. He also used AI to rethink the dining space.
How it went
The article links the growth of the past three years to the use of technology, without separating how much came from AI.
Good to know
Check allergens and the cost of each dish; AI doesn't know your suppliers.
The prompt
Put together the menu for [days] for a pay-by-weight restaurant in [city], with [number] hot dishes per day, varying the proteins and including a vegetarian option. Use seasonal ingredients, keep costs low, and flag allergens.
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