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Ask a restaurant expert, not a generic chatbot

Questions about running an independent restaurant, answered from sourced guides and worked out with real calculators, so you can decide with numbers you can check. 5 free questions, no sign-up.

Ask about running your restaurant

You're chatting with an AI. It answers from RestaurantDoctorAI's sourced guides and runs its calculators. Not legal, tax or financial advice.

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What makes it different

A general chatbot answers from whatever it absorbed from the internet, and can invent a number that sounds right. This one works only from what it can show you.

  • It runs your numbers with real calculators

    Give it your figures and it uses 6 of this site's own calculators (labor, prime cost, break-even, plate cost and more) instead of doing math in its head, so you get the same answer the calculator gives.

  • Every figure has a source

    It answers from RestaurantDoctorAI's library and shows the sources under each answer. A check in our code removes any number it can't trace to a source or to your own words.

  • It knows the rules by state

    Tipped minimum wage for all 50 states and DC, from the US Department of Labor's table, and the tax, payroll, license and permit deadlines in our deadline calendar for your state.

  • It tells you who to check with

    On law and tax it gives the rule, the official source and who to ask (your state labor department, an accountant, a lawyer). It never tells you that something is allowed.

What it knows

Its library is everything RestaurantDoctorAI publishes and checks, plus RestaurantDoctorAI's targets by type of restaurant. It searches it before every answer.

  • 12guides on costs, labor, prime cost, rent, delivery and more
  • 17blog posts on what's changing for restaurants now
  • 28step-by-step fixes from the paid report's playbook
  • 293sourced facts, rules and how-tos, each with its source and the day it was checked

What you can ask

  • My labor was $31,000 on $96,000 of sales last month. Is that too high for a full-service place?
  • Beef went up again. How do I reprice my burgers without losing regulars?
  • What's the tipped minimum wage in Texas, and can tips make up the difference?
  • How often should I count inventory, and what should I do with the result?
  • Which deadlines does a restaurant in Ohio have coming up this year?
  • Is a 30% food cost good for a pizza place?

What it won't do

  • It isn't legal, tax or financial advice. For a decision that carries risk, check with a professional.
  • It doesn't browse the web or see your POS, bank or payroll. It knows only its library and what you tell it.
  • It's an AI, and it can be wrong. Each answer lists its sources so you can check.
  • It answers questions about running a restaurant, and politely declines the rest.

Your questions are sent to Google's Gemini AI to be answered. We keep how many questions you ask each day, never what you ask.

After your 5 free questions

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The 30-day pass

  • Up to 50 questions a day for 30 days, to the minute. Each day starts at midnight Pacific time.
  • Paid once. It never renews, and there's no account.
  • A private link by email turns it on in any browser, on your phone and your computer.
  • Refunded in full if it doesn't work because of a fault on our side (refund policy).

Use your free questions in the chat above; the pass is offered when they run out.