What Si-Chef can do
Si-Chef works on the same data you see in the CRM, for the restaurant you have selected. Every area below says whether Si-Chef can check it — answer questions from live data — or change it, which always means preparing a proposal you approve first. The example questions are real asks: copy one, adjust the names and times, and try it.
Bookings & availability
Section titled “Bookings & availability”Checks
- “How many covers do we have on Friday?”
- “What availability is left for four people next Saturday at 8:30pm?”
- “Show me tonight’s bookings.”
- “What service periods are active this week?”
Changes — prepared for your approval
- “Add a phone booking for Saturday at 8pm: four people, name Rossi.”
- “Move the Rossi booking on Saturday from 8pm to 9pm.”
- “Mark the Rossi booking as seated.”
- “Our 9pm table didn’t show — mark it as a no-show.”
- “Cancel the 7:30pm booking for four under Mancini — the guest called.”
The room & tables
Section titled “The room & tables”Checks
- “List our tables and their capacities.”
- “Which tables can seat six?”
- “What does the room look like for tomorrow evening?”
- “At 8:30pm is there room for four? Show me the free tables.”
Changes — prepared for your approval
- “Organize the tables for tonight’s dinner: join the ones we need and seat the bookings.”
- “Set up the room for Sunday lunch, moving tables if you have to.”
Si-Chef reads the room the way you see it — free, occupied and blocked tables, and which combinations can seat a party — and prepares the full table plan: joins for large groups, moves on the map, and booking assignments. Like every change, you see it in the proposal before approving. Redrawing the map by hand stays in the Floor Map editor, where you can see the room while you work.
Menus, prices & variants
Section titled “Menus, prices & variants”Checks
- “Show me the dinner menu.”
- “What’s the price of the Margherita?”
- “Which categories is the tiramisù in?”
Changes — prepared for your approval
- “Create a new Festive menu.”
- “Add the panettone to the desserts, €8.”
- “Update the Margherita price to €9.”
- “Change the glass price of the house wine to €5.”
- “Mark the burrata starter as unavailable — we ran out.”
Ingredients, option groups & stock
Section titled “Ingredients, option groups & stock”Checks
- “Which ingredients are attached to the Carbonara?”
- “What’s below its minimum stock threshold?”
- “Which option groups exist for our pizzas?”
Si-Chef reads stock and ingredient data; refilling stock and editing the ingredient catalog stay in the Menus section of the CRM.
Sales & best sellers
Section titled “Sales & best sellers”Checks
- “What are our best-selling dishes this month?”
- “How did the tiramisù sell last week?”
- “Show me the pizza sales trend this year, by month.”
Sales figures cover orders placed through Eighty-Six — QR table orders, order-ahead, and orders taken through the platform. Cash rung up outside it is not included, so read these as your digital orders, not the whole till.
Dynamic links
Section titled “Dynamic links”Checks
- “Where does our Instagram link point?”
- “What changed on the menu link last month?”
Changes — prepared for your approval
- “Update the menu link to the new winter menu URL.”
- “Change the review link destination for all of our QR codes.”
Restaurants
Section titled “Restaurants”Checks
- “Which restaurants am I on?”
- “What’s the contact email for this restaurant?”
Where it stops
Section titled “Where it stops”A few honest limits, so you know when to use the CRM directly:
- It never changes anything on its own. Every edit is a proposal, and it is applied only after you approve it — once.
- It stays inside your Organization. Si-Chef cannot see, check, or touch another customer’s restaurant.
- No platform-wide numbers. It cannot tell you how many restaurants use Eighty-Six, platform revenue, or anything beyond your own Organization.
- It follows your permissions. Anything your account cannot do, Si-Chef cannot do for you either.
- It is a chef, not an oracle. When something is ambiguous or missing, it asks instead of inventing an answer.
The areas above are what Si-Chef covers today. The list keeps growing — the goal is that everything you can click in the CRM, you can ask for from the chat.