Run a WhatsApp ordering assistant for your restaurant with AI

Customers order food on WhatsApp through an AI assistant that shows the menu, takes the order, and calculates delivery.

How the work actually flows

It branches. Every path runs.

Pattern: Parallel Split (2)

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Starts itA stepEvery pathResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
AI Agents & Autonomous SystemsMessaging & NotificationsDocument Processing & OCRSpreadsheet & Database OpsFile & Cloud Storage
Connects
WhatsAppOpenAISupabase

The problem it solves

Taking orders over WhatsApp by hand means slow replies, typos, and mixed-up addresses during your busiest hours. Staff spend time answering the same menu questions instead of running the kitchen.

Who it fits

Restaurants, burger shops, and food delivery businesses that take orders over WhatsApp.

How it works

  1. A customer messages your WhatsApp number
  2. An AI assistant greets them and shows the menu
  3. The assistant helps the customer pick items and build their order
  4. It collects the delivery name, phone, and address, and calculates the delivery fee by distance
  5. The order is saved and sent to the kitchen, with the customer notified along the way
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What it is worth to you

Your numbers, your hourly cost. We add nothing hidden.

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Assumes every WhatsApp order today is taken manually by staff and that freed hours are put to other work.

What you get

A completed order saved to your system and sent straight to the kitchen, with the customer kept updated.

What you need

A WhatsApp business connection, an OpenAI API key, and a Supabase account.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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