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How to get your restaurant's menu into ChatGPT

When someone asks an AI assistant what's on your menu, it answers from whatever it can find, often a stale review or a third-party listing. Courtyard gives AI a live, accurate source for your menu, prices, and hours, so it recommends you with the right details.

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What's on the menu at Cafe Mona, roughly how much is dinner, and are they open Monday?

Here's what I found for Cafe Mona: ai.cafemona.com

🍽️Menu: seasonal Italian, wood-fired pizza from $18, house pastas $22 to $26, and a short natural-wine list.
💵Dinner: most guests spend $40 to $55 per person, and there's a $35 weeknight prix fixe.
🕒Hours: closed Mondays, open Tuesday to Sunday 5 to 10 PM, with a Sunday lunch service.
🌱Dietary: gluten-free pasta and several vegan mains are available on request.

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The gap

AI can only describe what it can read

Your menu lives in a PDF, an image, or a booking tool. AI assistants can't reliably open any of those, so they guess from old reviews and directory scraps. That's how customers get the wrong prices, a discontinued dish, or hours from two years ago.

Menus AI can't open

PDFs and menu images look great to people, but AI assistants can't read them the way they read text. Your dishes and prices stay invisible.

Dinner menuPDF

Wine listImage

Daily specialsOn a chalkboard

Details that go stale

You changed your hours, raised a price, or dropped a dish. The version AI learned from a scraped listing didn't change with you.

Hours2 years old

PricesFrom an old review

MenuMissing new dishes

The long tail of questions

Before booking, people ask AI far more than whether you're open. Every question you can't answer is a table you don't get.

gluten-free options?corkage fee?patio seating?private dining?kids menu?parking nearby?prix fixe price?vegan mains?walk-ins?group bookings?+ hundreds more

How it works

Give AI a live source in minutes

Courtyard turns whatever you already have into a knowledge base AI can read, hosted at ai.yourrestaurant.com and kept current.

Drop in your menu

Upload your menu PDF, a photo, or a link. Courtyard extracts the dishes, prices, and details into structured knowledge for you.

Review and publish

Check the draft, fix anything, and publish. Your menu, prices, and hours go live at a page AI assistants can read and cite.

Keep it current

Change a price or drop a special and update in seconds. Forward an email with a change and Courtyard drafts the edit for you.

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FAQ

Common questions

Why doesn't ChatGPT show my menu correctly?

Most menus live in PDFs, images, or a booking tool, which AI assistants can't reliably read. So they fall back to whatever they can find, usually an old review or a third-party listing, which is often out of date. Courtyard gives AI a clean, readable source for your menu so it answers with the right dishes and prices.

Do I need a new website?

No. Courtyard hosts your AI knowledge base at a subdomain like ai.yourrestaurant.com and keeps your existing website exactly as it is. AI assistants read the knowledge base, your customers keep using your site.

How do I keep prices and hours up to date?

Update them in Courtyard in seconds, or forward an email with the change and Courtyard drafts the edit for you to approve. The moment you publish, AI has the current version.

Which AI assistants can read it?

Courtyard is built to be read by ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, and Claude. Your menu and details are published in a format these assistants can access and cite.

How much does it cost?

Courtyard starts at $20 per month. You can set up your knowledge base and see how AI describes your restaurant before you commit.

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