AI agents for food trucks

Most food trucks are run by the owner, who also cooks on the line. The owner sets the menu, buys stock, keeps permits current, books stops and events, posts on social media and does the books. Cooks prep at the commissary and work the truck, someone takes orders and payment at the window, and the owner usually drives, parks and runs the generator and water tanks.

The admin lands at night. The week's stops get typed into Instagram, Facebook, the website and the Business Profile, and when a brewery cancels the change goes out in one place only. Messages ask "are you at the brewery tonight?" and "is the batter gluten-free?" between orders. Catering enquiries need packages and deposits. Festivals want the health permit and a certificate of insurance naming them as additional insured. Prep for tomorrow is guessed from memory, so the truck sells out early or throws food away.

An agent works from your POS, calendar and approved menu and allergen sheet, and the owner approves anything that commits the truck.

• Posts where the truck will be this week across your channels, and corrects every post quickly when plans change.
• Answers "where are you today" and menu questions in messages, repeating only the owner's approved allergen sheet and offering a person for anything else.
• Drafts tomorrow's prep list from what sold at the same kind of stop.
• Builds a weekly scorecard of what each stop earned against its fees and hours.
• Turns a catering enquiry into a package quote for the owner to approve, and reminds last year's catering clients before their next event.
• Finds festival and market vendor calls and drafts the applications with your permits attached.
• Drafts the weekly crew schedule from the bookings and who is free.

Allergen promises beyond the approved sheet, food safety corrective actions and anything said to an inspector stay with the owner. Health permits, commissary rules, propane and fryer fire safety and vending rules are set by each city and county, so the agent never states what a jurisdiction requires; the owner checks with the health department. Which events to accept, prices, discounts and hiring decisions are the owner's. Deposits are taken through the POS or a payment link, and card numbers never go into messages, sheets or AI tools. Quotes, applications and posts are drafted by the agent and go out only once the owner has approved them.