Use ChatGPT for drink specials, event decisions and graphics when you're the owner, manager and barista
Roxanne Erickson, owner, manager and barista of Who Spilled The Beans, a small coffee business in Piedmont, Oklahoma, in Barista Magazine
ChatGPT suggests drink specials and combinations, makes graphics, helps with schedules and weighs quick business calls, such as whether to offer one drink size at an event. She treats its answers as ideas to consider and doesn't use every one.
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The problem
As the owner, manager and barista, she has no artist or design programs for graphics and no one to bounce ideas off quickly.
What happened
Some of ChatGPT's suggested drinks have sold well, per Barista Magazine; no figures are given. She has had wrong logos and several changes when she asked for one in images.
Quoted in the source: Roxanne Erickson, owner, Who Spilled The Beans. Source: Barista Magazine: Is ChatGPT Making Every Coffee Shop Sound the Same? (Jade Valore) (2026-10-09) · Added 2026-10-24.
How to set it up yourself
- What Who Spilled The Beans uses: ChatGPT for specials, graphics, schedules and quick decisions. The article doesn't name a plan.
- For specials: paste the prompt below into ChatGPT with what you have on hand and the season. Make the two you like best, taste them, and only put a winner on the board.
- For graphics: ask ChatGPT for a menu-board or social image of the special, with your exact drink name and price in the prompt. Check every word and don't let it draw your logo; it got hers wrong, so add your real logo yourself in Canva or your phone's editor.
- For event calls: give it the event, expected crowd, your equipment and staff, and ask for the trade-offs of one drink size versus two. Make the call yourself.
Copy-paste prompt
I run {SHOP NAME}, a small coffee {SHOP OR TRUCK} in {TOWN}. Suggest 5 {SEASON} drink specials I can make with what I already stock: {LIST SYRUPS, MILKS, TOPPINGS}. For each: a short fun name, the build for a {SIZE} drink in ounces or pumps, the cost of any new ingredient I'd need, and a one-line menu description. At least two should be unusual combinations. Mark any that need equipment I didn't list.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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