restaurant

A tool that allows sharing a menu with Ava to visualize what each dish may look like.

Built a fully automated lead generation system using Claude Opus 4.8 and OpenClaw. The process scans restaurants, analyzes food photos, reconstructs promotional videos, and sends physical postcards, achieving a lead generation workflow with no human intervention.

The author argues that for small business AI agents, especially in restaurants, operational memory is more critical than pure automation, as it helps managers preserve context and maintain predictability.

Holly, a Korean immigrant and restaurant owner, used Google's Gemini AI to streamline her restaurant operations and eventually built WorkOnward, an inclusive hiring platform that now serves over 13,000 people in New York City.