AI assistant¶
Ask Kitchfly a question in plain words and it answers with your restaurant's real numbers: sales, food cost, dish costs, inventory, ingredient prices, tips, labor and your profit & loss. It can also explain how to use or set up anything in Kitchfly.
Only admins can use it.
Ask a question¶
Click ✨ Ask Kitchfly in the side menu (on a phone, the ✨ button at the top). Type your question and press Enter, or tap one of the suggestions.
Examples:
- How much did I sell yesterday compared to the same day last week?
- Which dishes have the highest food cost?
- Which ingredients went up in price this month?
- How am I doing this month vs last month? Why is my profit down?
- How many overtime hours did we have last week?
- How do I set up the receipt printer?
Answers include the dates it used and, when it helps, a small table and a button to open the screen where the numbers come from (for example Open Reports →). You can keep asking follow-up questions in the same conversation; New conversation starts over.
Ask it to make changes¶
The assistant can prepare four kinds of changes. Nothing changes until you click Confirm on the card that appears under its answer, showing exactly what will change:
| Ask for… | Card shows | When you confirm |
|---|---|---|
| Raise the Cuban torta to $12.50 and the horchata to $3.75 | Each dish with price before → after and food cost before → after | The menu prices change |
| Make the order for this week / Order 5 kg of skirt steak from Sysco | One draft order per supplier with items, quantities and estimated total | It's saved as a pending order in Reorder, ready to send |
| Write a campaign for 2x1 tacos on Tuesday | Subject, heading, text, featured dishes and button | It's saved as a draft in Email marketing; it is never sent until you review it and send it |
| We ran out of horchata / The horchata is back | The dishes to mark sold out (until today's close or until you turn it back on) or available again | Online ordering, QR, kiosk and delivery apps stop or start selling them |
Click Cancel if you don't want it. A proposal expires after 2 hours. Every confirmed change is saved in Activity with your name.
It can't change anything else (inventory counts, recipes, settings, staff, payments or refunds); if you ask, it tells you where to do it.
Recommendations¶
Besides answering, the assistant recommends, always with the numbers behind it:
- What to buy: What do I need to buy this week and from which supplier? It uses your suggested order.
- What to expect: How much will I sell this week and which days do I need more staff? It uses the sales forecast from the suggested schedule.
- What price to set: What happens if I raise the Cuban torta to $12.50? It shows the new food cost, margin and the monthly impact if you sell the same amount.
- What to do with your menu: Which dishes should I push, fix or drop? It classifies each dish by how much it sells and how much it leaves you (star, plowhorse, puzzle, dog).
For you today¶
When you open the assistant, For you today shows what needs your attention: unread smart alerts (price increases, low inventory, high labor…), dishes above your food cost target and ingredients that run out in less than 3 days. Tap Ask → on a card and the assistant explains it and tells you what to do. A number on the ✨ button tells you how many important ones there are. The cards don't use up questions; only asking does.
Questions per month¶
| Plan | Questions per month |
|---|---|
| Basic | 100 |
| Pro | 500 |
Each question counts once, no matter how much data it checks. The panel shows how many you have left. If you run out, buy 100 more questions for $5 (valid for the rest of the month) right from the assistant.
Privacy¶
- It only sees your restaurant's data, the same an admin sees in Kitchfly.
- Kitchfly doesn't keep your conversation: it stays in that browser tab and is gone when you close it.
- Questions are processed by our AI provider (Anthropic) only to answer you, as described in the Data Processing Agreement.
AI can make mistakes. Before an important decision, double-check the numbers on their screen.