Your Restaurant in Claude: 8 Things You Can Ask

Most people who use ChatGPT or Claude for their restaurant use it as a writing aid. “Write a caption about the weekend menu.” It writes. You paste. Fine, but the assistant knows nothing about your venue. It is guessing.

Once it is connected to SOMESimplify, it can see your venue. Then the questions change. Here are the eight we see people ask first, and what actually happens when they do.

1. “What is waiting at my venue?”

The first thing many ask in the morning, before the app is open. The answer is the same as Home in the app: drafts waiting for approval, guests without a reply, posts that failed. The assistant also says how long the round will take. Two minutes or twenty, you know before you decide when.

2. “Who has not had a reply?”

Messages, comments and reviews, together. One and two star reviews are flagged as urgent, because they are the only ones that get worse by waiting. You can ask for a suggested reply to each of them, but you are the one who says “send”. The assistant never sends anything to a guest before you have read it and said yes.

3. “Draft a post about the Friday menu, with the photo of the fish soup.”

This is where something new happens. The assistant finds the photo in your library, writes in your voice, with your rules, and puts the draft in the app. Not in the chat. You open the app, read it, and tap yes or no. That is the whole point: the draft lands where everything else you approve lives, not in a conversation you have to copy from.

4. “Suggest a reply to the review from Stine.”

The assistant reads the review, knows what kind of place you are, and suggests a reply that takes the guest seriously without promising compensation. The suggestion is ready in the app. You send it, or rewrite it. For bad reviews this is often what makes the reply go out the same day instead of sitting there.

5. “What should I post this week?”

This is the question that separates a connected assistant from an ordinary one. The answer is built on your own numbers: what has worked for you, which days are empty in the calendar, which photos are still unused. Not general advice about the best time to post, but what is missing at your place this week.

6. “How did the week go?”

Last week against the week before: what went out, and how it did. Short enough to read on the way to work. If you have several venues, ask about one of them, or all.

7. “This week’s thing is quiz on Thursday.”

You say it once. The assistant saves it as the event of the week, and the drafts for the rest of the week know about it. It is the same field that exists in the app, you just do not have to open it to fill it in.

8. “Which photos have I not used yet?”

Your library, with what has been used and what is still ready. Surprisingly often the answer is “more than you think”. Then comes the natural follow-up: “draft a post from the third one”.

What it never does

It never publishes anything you have not read. It never sends a reply you have not said yes to. It does not change your subscription, and it does not 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. Then the assistant asks before every tap, and can only send text you have actually read. The assistant prepares. You decide.

Bonus: the morning round, without opening anything

Claude and ChatGPT can run a scheduled task. Tell it: “Every morning at 8, ask SOMESimplify what is waiting at my venue and what I should post today, and send me a short summary.” Then the assistant reaches out, not you. You still approve yourself.

Chains, agencies and other industries

If you have several venues, the assistant sees all of them, and “what is waiting at the Oslo place?” goes to the right one. The rules follow the industry. A driving school never gets promises about passing the test in a draft. A health practice never gets client mentions. That holds no matter who asks, and no matter which assistant asks.

How to get started

Five minutes, once. The steps for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex and VS Code are on the AI connection page, and step by step in the previous post. The connection is part of the Pro plan, and the trial has it too.