Open Five Days a Week.Working Seven.
The vendor order you forgot to send Sunday night.
The new line cook's paperwork on your desk.
The 2-star Yelp review you meant to respond to.
The catering inquiry from Tuesday still in your inbox.
No pitch deck. No demo. Just your numbers.
Four Roles. All of Them Are You.
Vendor orders placed from memory. Food cost percentage you guess at. Walk-in inventory in your head — and the line cook's head — and they don't match.
Schedule built every Sunday in a spreadsheet. Three shift swaps mid-week. Onboarding paperwork half-filled in a binder. Tip-out math at midnight.
Reservation overflow on Friday. Cancellations not rebooked. Catering inquiries sitting two days. Birthday parties booked without confirming the deposit.
Social posts you never get to. Daily specials emailed at 4 PM instead of noon. Negative reviews you keep meaning to respond to but the dinner rush hits.
Patton AI runs these four jobs in the background. You run the floor.
Specific Asks We Hear From Restaurant Operators.
If any of these match your week, we should talk. None of these are generic; every one is something an owner-operator in your industry has actually asked for.
Friday night: 80 covers booked, three chicken parm specials projected → Monday's chicken order auto-drafts at the right quantity from your usual vendor with usual terms. You confirm, click send.
Next week's schedule drafted using last week's covers, your labor cost target, and every staff member's availability + time-off requests. Conflicts pre-resolved. You review and publish.
Friday booked solid → automated waitlist with table-turn estimates. Cancellations rebook waitlisted parties within minutes. Customers get accurate wait quotes; you get fewer angry walk-outs.
Today's specials decided at 10 AM → email blast to your list, Instagram post drafted, menu board updated, third-party app menus updated. All by 11 AM, none typed by you.
New review hits → drafted response in your voice (warm, specific to what they said, never defensive). You approve and post in 30 seconds. Three-star reviews escalated to you for personal touch.
Form submission for a 50-person event → response within minutes with menu options at three price points, deposit terms, and one-tap booking. Catering revenue stops leaking to faster competitors.
Booked private event tracked through deposit payment, menu finalization, vendor coordination, day-of timeline. Event closes with a follow-up review request.
Last week's POS sales projected an expected food cost of 28%; actual was 33%. Agent flags the variance with a guess at where it's leaking (over-portioning? theft? prep waste?).
How much time are you actually losing?
We assume Patton AI recovers ~60% of these hours. Conservative by design — actual client results land 65–80%.
Hours per week sorting, triaging, following up on email
Logging contacts, chasing estimates, updating deal status
Building bids, coordinating subs, rescheduling jobs
Blended hourly rate — billable or your opportunity rate
Based on 60% recovery rate · 48 working weeks/year · your inputs above. Conservative by design.
Your back office shouldn't run you.Let's fix that in 30 minutes.
No slides. No demo. You tell me your week, I'll tell you what's automatable.
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