AI + Ordering
Smarter order drafts and kitchen intelligence without giving up manager control.
86 Chaos uses restaurant data already being collected to help managers build better order drafts, catch price and waste signals, understand menu impact, predict prep pressure, and see what needs attention. AI prepares the work. Managers make the call.
Limited Founder Beta
90 days free, with setup help included.
No credit card or purchase required. Accepted restaurants help shape the intelligence tools and receive 50% off the first location for the first paid year.
AI availability
What AI is available by plan.
Basic plans help organize the shift. Smart Kitchen and Owner Pro unlock the ordering, menu, invoice, and forecast intelligence that can help protect food cost.
AI availability
AI and back-office intelligence by plan.
AI features suggest, prepare, alert, explain, and route work for review. They do not automatically place vendor orders, post payroll, or send QuickBooks records.
QuickBooks tools are review-first during beta: preflight checks, mapping review, accountant packets, exports, and owner-approved drafts. 86 Chaos does not live-post to QuickBooks during Founder Beta.Shift
Basic staff + kitchen coordination
Operations
Scheduling, labor + daily close
Smart Kitchen
AI ordering + food-cost intelligence
Owner Pro
Back Office Suite + owner tools
Legend: ✓ included, × not included, text labels show limited/advanced/planned access. Owners and managers stay in control of business-changing actions.
AI-assisted ordering
Build better order drafts from the information already inside the restaurant.
AI Order Assistant can use current stock, par levels, pending orders, upcoming events, prep needs, Menu Intelligence links, burn/waste logs, invoice history, and vendor history to suggest what may need ordered and explain why.
Example command
“What should I order?”
86 Chaos checks the signals, creates a draft, flags risks, and leaves the final decision to the manager.
86Voice + AI
Ask ordering and menu-impact questions out loud.
Human-approved AI
The app can do a lot of the thinking work, but not the final approval.
86 Chaos can suggest, explain, draft, alert, analyze, scan, forecast, summarize, and report. Managers approve actions that change business records, send orders, spend money, publish schedules, alter payroll-related data, change permissions, or affect billing.