Check whether you're over-ordering alcohol, rice and beans by asking a chatbot to compare sales with what's left over
Daniel Ramirez, CEO of Los Dos Potrillos, a family-owned chain of Mexican restaurants in Colorado, in The Denver Post
The owners started using chatbots (the article doesn't name which) to help manage inventory: from what was selling and which ingredients were left over, it could determine whether they were ordering too much alcohol, rice or beans. They now host AI-training sessions for employees at their headquarters. They don't post chatbot-generated images of food.
The article doesn't name the chatbots or their cost. To try the same check in ChatGPT: ChatGPT Free $0; Go $8/mo; Plus $20/mo; Pro $100/mo.
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The problem
The family owners wanted to know whether they were ordering too much alcohol, rice or beans for what was actually selling.
What happened
The article gives no savings figure. "We like to let AI guide our thoughts, not think for us," Ramirez says, pointing to chatbots' relative objectivity and range of options: "You can ask anything."
Quoted in the source: Daniel Ramirez, CEO, Los Dos Potrillos. Source: The Denver Post: Metro Denver restaurateurs turn to ChatGPT, chatbots for menus, legal matters (Miguel Otárola) (2026-10-15) · Added 2026-10-21.
How to set it up yourself
- What Los Dos Potrillos does: a chatbot compares what sold with what was left over to show whether they're over-ordering alcohol, rice or beans, and the owners train staff on AI at headquarters.
- Export two weeks of item sales from your POS and pull your supplier invoices and end-of-week counts for your top 10 ingredients into one spreadsheet.
- Upload it to ChatGPT (or another chatbot) with the prompt below and your recipe amounts per dish, so it compares what you should have used with what you ordered.
- Treat the result as a question list, not an order: check any big gap against your own counts and talk to your kitchen manager before you cut a par level.
Copy-paste prompt
Here are two weeks of data for {RESTAURANT}: item sales from our POS {SALES CSV}, what we ordered from suppliers {ORDERS}, our end-of-week counts {COUNTS} and the amount of each ingredient per dish {RECIPE AMOUNTS}. For {INGREDIENTS e.g. rice, beans, tequila, beer}, calculate expected use, actual use and what we have left. Flag anything where we ordered more than {PERCENT}% above what sold, and suggest a new weekly par for each. Show the math and mark any assumptions.We set up one AI automation in your tools, live within 48 hours of getting access, for $197. No call needed. Founding price for our first 10 customers (regular $297).
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