MenuMuze: an AI maître d' you can talk to

/// THE CHALLENGE

I spent years as a waiter, mixologist, sommelier and then operations manager. The same questions arrive at the worst moment: what pairs with this, what's in that, can you change this dish. At peak hours the best answer in the room is stuck behind the busiest person. I wanted a guest to be able to just ask — out loud — and have the menu respond.

/// THE SOLUTION

A voice maître d' on Gemini Live that streams audio both ways and acts through tool calls: it adds dishes to the cart, calls for service and moves the guest around the menu. A text concierge, 'M', has the same tools. Around it: a menu with categories and prices, a cart, voice-to-booking, and AI-written menu copy. It's a single-venue prototype on Vite, Express and Firebase.

/// TECH STACK

/// KEY FEATURES

• →Voice maître d' — talk to the menu; it adds dishes to your cart through tool calls
• →Text concierge 'M' — the same tools, in chat
• →Voice booking — say when and how many; it fills the booking form
• →AI menu copy — dish descriptions written from the menu data

/// STILL UNFINISHED

• —Single venue only; multi-tenant and payments are not built yet
• —Allergen answers are AI-generated and not safety-verified — not to be relied on for allergies
• —Live voice needs per-session spend caps before a public demo