Write and improve descriptions

The item edit screen carries an AI Content Generator panel with a Write content with AI action. It drafts text from a short brief so you have something to edit instead of a blank field.

Where it is

On the item's edit screen, alongside the translation panel, when the site's translation layer is active.

Use it

1. Open the item.
2. Select Write content with AI.
3. In Describe your content, write a short brief — the dish, its ingredients, its preparation, what makes it worth ordering.
4. Select Generate Content.
5. Confirm the credit estimate: This will deduct approximately N credits from your account. Do you wish to continue?
6. Read the result.
7. Edit it into your menu's voice.
8. Update the item.

Write a brief, not a wish

The quality of the output tracks the quality of the brief almost exactly.

Weak:

A good fish dish

Useful:

Hake loin, grilled over oak charcoal, pil-pil sauce made with its own
gelatine, garlic and Arbequina olive oil. Served with grilled leek.
Cantabrian hake, on the menu all year.

Give it the facts. It cannot invent your recipe, and it should not.

The business description is the other input

The tool works from the business description saved in the setup assistant. That is what tells it the restaurant is a Basque grill house rather than a bistro.

If everything it writes sounds generic, improve that description first. It is one edit that improves every future generation.

Edit before saving

Treat the result as a first draft:

• Cut it down. Generated text is usually longer than a menu needs. A description that fills a card breaks the layout.
• Remove the adjectives that could be attached to any dish — delicious, exquisite, carefully selected.
• Keep the facts and delete the atmosphere; the room provides that.
• Match the surrounding items in length and register.
• Check the ingredients. Anything the brief did not state should not be in the text.

That last point is not optional: an ingredient invented in a description is an allergen problem.

Language

The writing tool produces its draft in Spanish. For a menu in another source language, or for other published languages, use it as a starting point and translate — see Translate with AI.

Where it helps most

• The first draft of a long menu, where a blank field per dish is the real obstacle.
• A dish nobody on the team can describe well.
• Long descriptions — the expanded text behind the info control — where there is room for a story.

Where to skip it

• Short, obvious items: a coffee, a bottled water, a portion of bread.
• Anything where the house's own wording already exists on the printed card. Type that instead; it is faster and it is yours.
• Allergen or dietary statements. Those are never generated.

Consistency across a menu

A menu where twenty dishes were written by hand and eighty were generated reads unevenly. Two ways to avoid it:

• generate the whole section and edit it as a block, so the register is uniform;
• or write a template sentence structure yourself and use the tool only to fill it.

Checklist

• [ ] The brief contained the real ingredients and preparation.
• [ ] The result was shortened to menu length.
• [ ] No invented ingredients survived.
• [ ] Generic praise was removed.
• [ ] The register matches the surrounding items.
• [ ] Allergens were reviewed separately, on the item.
• [ ] The dish reads well on a phone, signed out.