Make pop-up flyers and balance the night's inventory with ChatGPT Plus when you're a one-person restaurant
Chef Matthew Drazick Halip, sole employee of Domi, a private in-home pasta omakase in Denver, in The Denver Post
He pays $20 a month for ChatGPT Plus and uses it to make flyers to post on Instagram and to balance his inventory at the end of each night of service. For a pop-up outside a wine bar, he asked for a single-line abstract drawing of Venice in gray chalk that emulated Venetian art, with the time, date and menu for the event, and worked it out over back-and-forth sessions. He draws the line at AI images of food: a friend photographs his dishes for $175 a shoot.
ChatGPT Free $0; Go $8/mo; Plus $20/mo; Pro $100/mo; he uses Plus at $20/mo. He pays a friend $175 a shoot for real food photos.
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The problem
As the only person running Domi, he'd rather spend his time making pasta than designing Instagram flyers or doing end-of-night inventory math, and one designer quoted him $500 for a flyer.
What happened
He made the pop-up flyer himself instead of paying the $500 one quote on Instagram asked for. "You got to read out and look over everything. It's going to make mistakes," he says. "It's kind of like a stage or an intern."
Quoted in the source: Matthew Drazick Halip, chef, Domi. 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 Domi does: the chef uses ChatGPT Plus to design event flyers in a specific art style with the time, date and menu, and to balance his inventory after each service, but keeps real photos for the food.
- For a flyer, describe the style you want in one sentence (medium, color, a reference place or artist style), then paste the event's exact time, date, address and menu; ask for a square Instagram version.
- Go back and forth on the layout, then read every word on the image letter by letter; retype any text it garbles in Canva or your phone's editor before posting.
- For inventory, keep a nightly note of what you started with, what you used and what's left; paste it with the prompt below and check the math against your own count before you order.
Copy-paste prompt
Tonight's service at {RESTAURANT}: starting stock {ITEMS AND AMOUNTS}, covers served {NUMBER}, dishes sold {DISH COUNTS}, what's left {ITEMS AND AMOUNTS}. Using my recipe amounts {RECIPE QUANTITIES}, show what I should have used, what I actually used and any gap over {PERCENT}% so I can check for waste or a miscount. Then list what to order for {NEXT EVENT DATE AND COVERS}. Show your math in a table and mark anything you assumed.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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