The honest guide
You hear the question everywhere: at the trade fair, in the industry newsletter, at a birthday party. Our answer: you don't have to do anything. There's AI in moonies, but not the kind you have to learn to work with. It's there to do things for you: type out your recipe binder, update your cost prices, answer when a guest with an allergy is at the table. Below is what that means, and what you can already do for free on your own.
How moonies uses AI
moonies knows your venue, because it works on what you record: your recipes, your prices, your agreements. That's why it can handle jobs a plain chatbot can't reach. Here are five.
A guest mentions a nut allergy, or asks what works without gluten. Ask moonies and the answer comes from your own recipes: which dishes work, and exactly where the allergen is. Not a chatbot's guess, but what you recorded yourselves.
A confident answer right away, even mid-service.
Photograph your recipe binder, your scrapbook or those loose Word files. moonies types everything out into clean digital recipes, ingredients and quantities included. You check it and set it live.
An evening of typing becomes fifteen minutes of taking photos.
You switch from tomato to Roma tomato. Instead of walking through all your recipes, you replace it once and moonies updates it everywhere. Cost prices and allergens recalculate on their own.
Otherwise you'd have been at this all afternoon.
Prices change all the time. Send the new list to moonies and your cost prices are right again, per recipe. You see straight away which dish has quietly become too expensive.
Your margin is right again, without the math.
Colleagues ask moonies instead of you: how to clean the coffee machine, what the music password is, where the spare key is. The answer comes from what you recorded yourselves, not from the internet.
Fewer phone calls on your day off.
Why not just ChatGPT?
With ChatGPT you have to explain everything again every time, and the answer is still a guess. moonies works directly on your own recipes, prices and agreements. You just ask your question and the answer is about your venue.
The AI in moonies can only reach the data of your own venue. Never another venue's, that's technically impossible. And the other way around too: your recipes and agreements stay yours and are never used for anything else.
Thomas builds moonies and follows everything around AI closely, simply because he enjoys it. When something genuinely gets better, it's in the app shortly after. And we tell you what's possible, including in the monthly AI update at the bottom of this page. So you don't have to keep up with anything or do your own research.
Just as important
Calculating cost prices, tracking allergens, looking things up, recording your recipes and agreements: that's just solid software. It's in the app, always works and never costs credit. You only use AI for the big jobs above, and you choose when.
So there's nothing to 'learn to work with AI' either. You take a photo or ask a question, and that's it.
Outside moonies
Open ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini and try one. It's just typing.
Paste in the review, briefly say who you are and how you want to sound, and ask for a draft. Then finish it yourself with something personal, because guests can tell a standard reply from a real one.
Also works for that one unfair review you've been angry about for three days. Let the chatbot write the first version, and your reply stays polite.
A job ad, an email to a group, your menu in English or German, a post about the new menu. Give it a few lines you once wrote yourself and the result will sound like you.
Have it rewrite rather than invent. Your rough draft plus a chatbot beats a blank page plus a chatbot.
Ask for ten ideas for an autumn dish with pumpkin, or variations on a dish that sells well. Nine will be nothing, but that one puts you on a track.
Any cost prices it produces are guesswork. Ideas yes, numbers no.
House rules, an onboarding booklet, a phone script for reservations. Dictate what you know or paste in your loose notes, and have it turned into a clean document.
The messier your input is allowed to be, the more time it saves. Tidying up is exactly what this is good at.
By the way, you don't need to build an allergen chart or an opening and closing checklist yourself: the allergen chart maker and the opening and closing checklist maker are free right here.
Fair is fair
A chatbot always sounds equally confident, even when the answer is wrong. So check numbers and facts yourself. And never ask a chatbot about allergens: your guests' health and your food-safety inspection are on the line. In moonies that question is fine, because there the answer comes from your own recipes.
ChatGPT doesn't know what your recipes cost, what you've agreed among yourselves or how your kitchen works. The answers stay generic, unless you explain everything again every single time.
Don't paste names or details of guests and colleagues into a free chatbot. What you enter can be used to train the model.
Fairly arranged
Every organization shares one AI credit balance and receives fresh credit every month. Usage is grouped by recognizable operation. If it runs out, nothing breaks: new AI jobs wait, or you buy extra credit. Credit you buy never expires.
See pricingIt's modest, precisely because most of moonies uses no AI. Importing 5 to 10 recipes costs about as much energy as boiling water for one cup of tea. Once we have more data, we'll publish the real usage.
Questions, help setting up or just thinking something through about your venue: you get Sanne or Thomas. Never a chatbot. So if you have a question about AI and your venue, just ask.
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