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title: "AI for Food Service | Ordering, Kitchen Display and Rostering - AI GO"
description: "Bring ordering, kitchen dispatch, rostering and purchasing into one system. AI GO provides a food ordering system, kitchen order board, HR management and stock control — generated from your menu and shift rules."
keywords: "restaurant AI, ordering system, kitchen display system, restaurant rostering, POS, AI GO"
canonical: "https://www.ai-go.app/en-US/solutions/catering"
locale: "en-US"
source: "AI GO（https://www.ai-go.app）"
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# AI for Food Service

Paper tickets out front, shouting in the kitchen, rosters in Excel and ordering by feel. AI GO brings ordering, kitchen dispatch, rostering and purchasing into one system so peak service no longer runs on shared instinct.

- **Live** order state shared front and back
- **On a board** outstanding items visible at a glance
- **One system** ordering, kitchen, rostering, purchasing

## 現況痛點

### Peak service runs on shouting

Front of house writes a ticket, walks it back and confirms verbally. When it gets busy the rail fills up, and a missed or duplicated ticket is routine — which is where the complaints come from.

### Nobody knows which table has waited longest

Tickets are made in the order they were clipped up, with no notion of elapsed time. When a guest asks whether their food is coming, the only method is flicking through tickets.

### Rostering is punishing

Shifts scheduled in Excel; one late call-off and the whole sheet is rebuilt, then everyone has to be messaged individually.

### Ordering by instinct

Order too much and it spoils, too little and items come off the menu. With no usage or waste record, cost control comes down to the owner’s feel.

## 導入前後對照

**Before**

- Front of house writes tickets and carries them back
- Kitchen works the rail in clip order, confirming by shouting
- Front of house walks back to check whether food is up
- Rosters built in Excel and rebuilt on every change
- Ordering from impression, with no waste record

**With AI GO**

- Guests or front of house order directly in the system
- The kitchen board shows orders by state and items outstanding
- Accepted, served and cancelled states sync instantly
- Rosters live in the system; changes touch only who they affect
- Purchasing and usage recorded, so cost is visible

## AI GO 對應能力

Ordering and the kitchen board go together; rostering and stock control can follow depending on site count and scale.

### One order, front and back

The customer-facing ordering system and the kitchen order board share one record, so state changes — accepted, served, cancelled — are visible to both sides without anyone walking back to ask.

### Outstanding items totalled

The kitchen board includes an aggregated item view: how many beef noodle soups are waiting right now, at a glance, so they can be batched instead of made one ticket at a time.

### Rostering and attendance together

The HR module covers clock-ins, leave approval and rostering, so the shift changes that hurt most in food service no longer mean rebuilding a spreadsheet.

### Your menu logic, not a package’s

Upsell options, set-menu combinations, time-limited items and modifier rules differ at every restaurant. No need to adopt a packaged POS’s field design.

## ROI 試算

For a single site trading ten hours a day with five staff at an average loaded rate of NT$220/hour:

| 作業項目 | 每月人工工時 | 時薪 | 每月可省 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Carrying tickets and verbal confirmation | 50 | NT$200 | NT$10,000 | <!-- Communication overhead at peak -->
| Checking order status and handling complaints | 22 | NT$220 | NT$4,840 |
| Building rosters and notifying changes | 18 | NT$300 | NT$5,400 |
| Ordering, stocktaking and costing | 20 | NT$300 | NT$6,000 |

## 常見問題

### We already have a POS. Do we replace it?

Not necessarily. For most restaurants the pain is not the till but the information gap between kitchen and floor. Start with the kitchen order board alone to make service state visible and leave the POS as it is. Decide on consolidation once you have felt the difference.

### What if the system goes down at peak?

That is the most realistic concern in food service. Keep paper as a fallback and actually rehearse it rather than treating it as something that will never happen. During adoption a Forward Deployed Engineer helps design the degraded path, instead of assuming the system never fails.

### Our staff are older. Can they learn it?

The kitchen board is designed for people who are busy — large type, state zones, minimal interaction. In practice it is easier than paper because nobody has to decipher handwriting. Run one shift on it for a week to start.

### Can we manage multiple sites?

Yes. The key with multiple sites is head office seeing the aggregate while each site sees only itself — a permissions question the platform already supports. Get one site running well, then replicate as you expand.