Get Your Café's Chalkboard Online: Menus, Pre-Orders and Rotas with AI

Mythex lets a café build a website whose menu matches the chalkboard, a pre-order page that times flat whites to the pickup slot, a brunch booking page that keeps tables back for walk-ins, and a rota built around the morning peak. Describe your café, try it in a live preview, and publish it to a link customers can use today.

Two rushes a day and a menu that keeps changing

A café's day has a sharp coffee peak from seven to ten, a lunch push, and a quieter afternoon for prep and catering. The menu changes with the season and with whatever the bakery dropped off, which is why it lives on a chalkboard and rarely online. Oat milk runs out on a different day from dairy, pastries get binned at close, and the rota is a sheet of paper on the fridge. Regulars message to book a table or order a platter for the office. Good café software is quick to update during service and simple enough for a part-time barista to use without training.

• A menu with dietary tags that matches what is actually on today
• Pre-orders in short pickup windows during the rush
• Weekend tables capped so walk-ins still get a seat
• Milk, beans and cups counted against par levels
• Waste at close logged next to sales by item

What you can build for cafés

A menu website that is right, not just pretty

Breakfast, lunch and all-day sections with vegan, gluten-free and dairy-free tags; the roaster and this month's single origin; hours that say when breakfast stops and the kitchen closes; and whether laptops, dogs and buggies are welcome. Every item has an available switch you flip from your phone.

Build a website for my café with a menu split into breakfast (until 11:30), lunch and all-day, each item tagged vegan, gluten-free or dairy-free, and an admin page where I can mark items sold out from my phone. Add a 'our coffee' section naming our roaster and current single origin, opening hours with kitchen close time, and notes that we're dog and laptop friendly.

Pre-orders that are hot when they're collected

Customers order coffee and breakfast with milk type, extra shots and size, and pick a five-minute pickup window. Staff see orders on a screen in time order and put them on a dedicated pickup shelf. Retail beans by bag size and grind, gift cards and reusable cups can sit in the same shop. Payment uses a provider account you connect.

Make a pre-order app for my café. Drinks have sizes, milk options (dairy, oat, almond, soy) and extra shots with prices. Customers choose a 5-minute pickup slot between 7am and 11am, with no more than 6 orders per slot. Staff see a live list sorted by pickup time and mark orders ready. Also sell 250g and 1kg bags of beans, whole or ground.

Brunch bookings that leave room for walk-ins

Put roughly half your covers up for booking on weekends, set a 75 or 90 minute sitting, and say so on the confirmation. Larger groups, private hire after hours and a celebration cake ordered with the table all go through the same form.

Create a table booking page for my café's weekend brunch, 9am to 2pm. We have 40 seats but only 20 covers are bookable per half-hour slot. Each sitting is 90 minutes, groups over 8 need my approval, and guests can add a celebration cake with 48 hours' notice.

A rota built around the peak, not the opening hours

Openers start before the doors for the bake-off and machine set-up, baristas and kitchen are scheduled as separate roles, and short overlapping shifts cover the two-hour rush. Staff request swaps with each other, and the rota only changes once you approve.

Build a staff rota app for my café with barista and kitchen roles. Openers start at 6:15 for a 7am opening. Weekdays 7-10am need 3 baristas and 1 kitchen, afternoons need 2 people total. Staff enter their availability each term and can request shift swaps that another staff member accepts and I approve.

A count sheet that warns before the oat milk runs out

Set a par level for each milk, beans by roast date, cups, lids and napkins. A quick tablet count before the supplier's cutoff produces a reorder list of everything below par, and daily pastry deliveries are logged against what sold.

Make an inventory count app for my café. Items include dairy, oat, almond and soy milk, coffee beans with roast date, cups, lids and napkins, each with a par level. Staff do a count on a tablet each afternoon and it shows a reorder list of everything below par to send to suppliers.

An office catering page for the steadiest money you make

Office managers search for breakfast platters and lunch boxes, not coffee shops. Give them platter sizes, a minimum order, a delivery radius and an order-by time for next day, with the order form only offering dates after your cutoff.

Create an office catering page for my café with breakfast platters (serves 6, 12 or 20), sandwich lunch boxes and coffee flasks, a minimum order of 10 people, delivery within 3 miles, and an order form that only allows delivery dates at least one working day ahead, ordered before 2pm.

From chalkboard to website every Monday

The simplest habit that works: photograph the chalkboard on Monday morning and update the online menu the same day. Because each dish is a record with a switch, the job takes a few minutes, and the soup that sold out at one o'clock can be switched off from behind the counter. Start with the menu and hours, add pre-orders once the menu is reliable, then the rota. Catering and tabs for local offices come last, once you see who is asking.

• Menu items with prices and dietary tags
• Hours, including when breakfast and the kitchen stop
• Milk options and extras with prices

Monthly tabs for the office next door

A coffee tab for a local business builds big repeat orders, but unpaid tabs drift. Log each order against the account, set a spending limit, and send a statement on the first of the month listing every order and the balance. Wholesale pastries or cakes you supply to another shop can be invoiced the same way.

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