How to Connect Your Restaurant to ChatGPT or Claude

Plenty of restaurant owners already keep an AI assistant on their phone. ChatGPT to write an email, Claude to think out loud about the menu. What is new is that the assistant can see your venue: what is waiting, who has not had a reply, which posts are ready. And draft content you approve with one tap.

The standard behind it is called MCP. You do not need to know more about it than this: it is the same for Claude, ChatGPT and whatever comes next. One connection, every assistant.

What the assistant can do

Ask, and it answers. For example:

• "What is waiting at my venue today?" It answers with drafts awaiting approval, guests without a reply, and posts that failed. The same numbers as the home screen in the app.
• "Who has not had a reply?" It lists messages, comments and reviews, and flags anyone who left one or two stars.
• "Draft a post about the Friday menu with the photo of the fish soup." The draft lands in the app. You read it and say yes or no. In the app, or right in the conversation if you have turned that on.
• "Suggest a reply to the review from Stine." The suggestion is ready. You read it and say "send". Not before.
• "We are closed today." Publishing is paused until tomorrow, today's posts are moved, and a draft saying you are closed is ready.
• "The burger is sold out." or "The burger costs 229 now." The menu changes straight away. Only what you say: never invented prices, and you set allergens yourself.
• "Pause everything until 1 October." or "Quiz every Thursday at 8 pm." A pause that moves the posts, or a recurring event that gets a draft before each one.
• "Give me the morning brief." What is urgent, what goes out today, and what is waiting. Can run as a scheduled task every morning.

What it is never allowed to do

It never publishes anything you have not read. It never sends a reply you have not said yes to. It cannot change your subscription. It cannot delete anything. By default everything goes out from the app; if you want to say yes right in the conversation, turn on “Let the assistant publish” under Connect AI, and it asks before every tap. That is not a limit we bolted on afterwards, it is the whole idea: the assistant prepares, you decide.

Access lasts 30 days at a time and can be revoked whenever you like under Settings → Connect AI. You always see which app is asking for access before you say yes.

How to set it up (5 minutes)

1. Sign in to SOMESimplify. Go to Settings → Connect AI. Pick the app you use and you get the steps for exactly that one. The address is there, with a copy button.
2. In Claude: Customize → Connectors → Add → Add custom connector. Paste the address. Claude sends you to us to sign in and grant access.
3. In ChatGPT: Settings → Apps & Connectors → turn on Developer mode → Create. Paste the address. Requires a Plus plan or above, and works in the browser.
4. In VS Code with GitHub Copilot: press "Add to VS Code" on our page. VS Code adds the connection itself, no copying.
5. In Cursor: press "Add to Cursor" on our page. Cursor adds the connection itself and asks you to sign in.
6. In Codex: Settings → MCP servers → Add server → "Streamable HTTP". Or one line in the terminal, shown on our page.
7. Approve on our page. Then you are back in the assistant, and you can ask: "What is waiting at my venue?"

Why it matters

The main reason social media goes quiet for a restaurant is not a lack of photos. It is that the work lives inside an app you have to remember to open. When the assistant you already talk to can say "three guests are waiting for a reply, and the Friday post is ready", it becomes one question instead of a routine. And a question you answer.

Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex and VS Code with GitHub Copilot today. We do not put an app on the list before we have run the whole sign-in against it ourselves. If there is an assistant we should test against, tell us.