Order Intake · automation
Each restaurant’s purchasing system emails its order to the central kitchen as a PDF. This pipeline catches it, reads every line, matches it to a real item and puts it on tomorrow’s prep list, usually within a few minutes and with no one at a keyboard.
A dedicated inbox receives the PO and its PDF.
The PDF is saved to cloud storage, so nothing is lost.
Every line, quantity and unit is pulled out of the PDF.
Each line is matched to a real item, including names it has learned.
The kitchen sees the order on tomorrow’s list.
No order yet
Daily watchdog
Automations fail quietly, so a second job checks the first. Every afternoon it confirms each scheduled job actually ran today, and emails the owner only when one didn’t. On Mondays it sends an all-clear, so you know the watchdog itself is alive.
In the real build
The client project behind this demo automates several of the emails and reports a busy kitchen used to handle by hand.
Orders from each restaurant go straight onto the central kitchen’s prep list.
Daily booking digests become tonight’s cover counts on the dashboard.
Short punches and forgotten clock-outs get flagged before they throw off tip pooling.
One daily check that every job above actually ran.