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AI & systems for mobile food operators

AI for your business, minus the hype.

You don't need twelve subscriptions and a prompt course. You need the sales tax squared away for every city you parked in, your SOPs written, and one system that holds it together. I set that up, safely, and teach you to run it.

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Who this is for

You bookkeep at midnight

The numbers only get looked at after everyone else has gone home.

You've slept in your restaurant before

Not because you wanted to. The turnaround between close and open was just shorter than the drive home.

Your kids ask if the restaurant is your other house

Kids tell the truth. Your schedule says they're onto something.

SOPs that live in your head

If you disappeared for a week, nobody could find the instructions, because there aren't any written down.

ChatGPT Plus for birthday captions

You're already paying for it. Right now that's about all it's doing.

“This place will fall apart without me”

You might even be right. But you're going to have to get out of your own way first on that one. That's exactly the work.

Not for enterprises chasing a vendor contract, or anyone who wants a bot to replace actually talking to their customers.

How I help your business

Own your bottom line

A real handle on your own numbers: organized, current, readable. Safe and secure comes first: you stay in control, and nothing sensitive goes anywhere it shouldn't.

SOP & System Implementation

Recipes, checklists, training docs, job posts, actually written down.

Comms

Vendor emails, customer replies, social drafts that sound like you.

Tool triage

Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor: which ones you need, which you don't, and how they tie together meaningfully for your business.

For restaurant & truck owners

Restaurants are home turf.

"AI for business" demos always seem to run a software company. My business buys cheese. Here's what this looks like when it's built for a kitchen. Every example below is running at my place right now.

Menu & price audits

Your POS already knows which items don't earn their place. We set up audits that pull real sales data and draft the price-change sheet. You approve it, it doesn't approve itself. I run these against my own Toast menu.

Payroll prep that runs itself

Timesheets pulled, hours checked, the cheat sheet built and waiting before payroll morning. Mine runs on automations I built. I review and hit go.

Catering & events that don't slip

A watchdog that cross-checks the booking inbox against the calendar and the budget sheet, then flags the loose ends: missed cancellations, unstaffed events, unsigned contracts. Mine checks every 20 minutes so nobody has to.

Specials without the scramble

Describe the special once. The pipeline writes the POS entry sheet, the kitchen build card, the truck stocking list, and the marketing brief. That's how specials go live at Uncle G's.

SOPs your whole crew can read

Training docs and station posters written from one conversation, in English and Spanish, if that's what your kitchen speaks. Mine are.

Numbers you look at weekly

A P&L habit with categories that match how a food business actually spends. The free one on this site was built by a script. Spreadsheets are systems too.

Why me

The restaurant game is completely different than it was twenty years ago. As an independent, you actually have an advantage the big guys don't. It was never that the chains have a bigger budget and better margins. It's that you don't know how to reach your audience in the post-COVID restaurant landscape. That's fixable.

I'm not an AI influencer. I run a pizza restaurant and two food trucks, and I built the POS they're rolling out. I use this stack every day on a real business with real margins. That's the difference between a demo and a system.

George explaining a process in front of the deck ovens

Real tools I've built that give my business an edge.

They can be yours too. "AI consultant" is a cheap costume these days, so you still get to see receipts: everything on this list is real, built with the stack this page is selling, and running today.

A point-of-sale system

Built from scratch; my own shops are rolling it out now. Register, kitchen screen, online ordering, scheduling, timesheets, tip pooling, the whole thing.

The Tempo register in demo mode, menu grid on the left, dark ticket rail with the running total on the right

A live build dashboard

The POS project reports on itself: a progress tree drawn from an honest ledger, and a robot that emails me the state of the build twice a day.

Tempo build-tree graphic: the POS project drawn as a branching tree of shipped and pending work

A sales-tax robot

Every month's sales tax tracked and broken down for filing, including every municipality the trucks sold in. The trucks move; the paperwork keeps up.

An owner dashboard

Vendor invoices and Toast sales in; category margins, food-cost risk rows, and a costing card for every recipe out. A robot refreshes it every 15 minutes.

A dough calculator

Detroit and NY formulas, batch scaling, fermentation timers, English and Spanish. Built for my crew. A public version is on this site's roadmap.

The Event Watch Dog

Cross-checks bookings against the calendar and the budget every 20 minutes, tattles when something slips (missed cancellations, unstaffed events, unsigned contracts) and puts the whole picture on its own dashboard.

A gift-card bot

Sends a Toast e-gift card from a chat message. Comped cards do a lot of work around here: community asks, fundraisers, customer win-back, plain old marketing, trades with other local businesses. Now saying yes is a single tap.

Payroll & vendor robots

The paperwork preps itself before I sit down. Eleven of them, last I counted.

A menu-audit pipeline

Price-change sheets and promo math pulled from real Toast sales data. Decisions from numbers, not vibes.

A specials pipeline

One write-up in; entry sheet, build card, stocking list, and marketing brief out.

The restaurant's website

unclegspizza.com: menus, catering, reviews, SEO, built and run the same way as everything else on this list.

The unclegspizza.com homepage, showing “Birmingham's finest Detroit & NY-inspired pizza” beside a Detroit pan pizza photo

An AI phone assistant

Plans the call, waits for my OK, then dials and logs what happened. Built for my own errands.

The Simple Truck P&L

The free spreadsheet on this site, generated by a script, like everything else around here.

This website

Built with the same stack I'll set up for you, in hours I used to spend covering shifts.

In the press

My scoreboard's not the only one keeping track:

Plus local coverage going back to the first trailer in 2021: Shelby County Reporter, Bham Now, About Town, Patch, SoulGrown, and WBRC FOX6.

None of it started as a master plan. It started with one spreadsheet. Systems stack. That's the whole pitch.

How it works

  1. 1

    Book a call

    We look at what you've got (tools, spreadsheets, sticky notes) and what's actually worth fixing first.

  2. 2

    I build it with you

    Not a PDF you'll never open. We set it up together, on your business, with your real numbers and documents.

  3. 3

    Walkthrough + cheat sheet

    A recorded walkthrough and a cheat sheet your least-technical person can follow. You own everything, with no dependency on me to keep it running.

Questions before you book.

Is my financial data safe?

Yes. You stay in control of your own numbers, and nothing sensitive goes anywhere it shouldn't. I'll walk you through exactly how before we touch anything real.

Do I need to be technical?

If you can run a POS, you can run this.

Which tool is best?

Wrong question. Best for WHAT? That's the triage.

Will this replace my bookkeeper/accountant?

No. It makes the hand-off to them clean. Your accountant will thank you.

I run a food truck, not a tech company. Is this really for me?

Especially you. Every system on this page was built for a pizza company that runs trucks first: mine. If it survives a Friday rush, it'll survive your back office.

Do you work with Toast?

Toast is home turf, and my menu audits and payroll prep run against it today. Different POS? Same pattern: your data, pulled safely, put to work.

Let's get your back office on rails.

One call to see what's actually worth fixing first.

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