Expanding a Family Restaurant into Catering with an AI Chatbot

A Toronto restaurant owner wants to expand the family business into catering so his father can retire, seeking less work and better margins. The session focuses on three needs: outreach to local businesses, tracking that outreach, and creating materials to send to potential clients. An AI chatbot is configured with plugins to generate a catering website, a lead list, a spreadsheet tracker, and a menu using the restaurant’s branding.

■ Business goal
- Expand the family restaurant into catering
- Reduce workload while improving margins
- Help the father retire

■ Requested outputs
- Outreach to businesses within a 5 km radius
- A spreadsheet tracker for collected emails
- A menu for client outreach

■ AI configuration
- Use the Gmail plugin and Google Drive plugin
- Prompt the chatbot to build a catering website
- Apply Northern Deling Kitchen branding with actual menu items and prices

For viewers interested in AI-assisted business workflows, local outreach, or family restaurant growth, this demonstrates how a chatbot can be set up with plugins and prompted to produce outreach assets. It outlines the tasks and tools involved, while the full implementation details remain in the video.