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Restaurants, cafes & hospitality · Custom workflow design

Connect service enquiries, supplier exceptions and guest follow-up

Keep everyday hospitality administration grounded in current capacity, menu information and actual service outcomes, with sensitive requests passed to the right person.

For Venue owner, restaurant manager or hospitality operations lead

Explore three real work situations ↓
How it could work

Start with a situation you recognise.

Illustrative designs to scope with your team. Select a scenario, then follow the normal path and the exception.

A group asks for a booking with special requirements

Finished result

A complete booking request or a documented staff handover.

  1. 01Read booking availability
  2. 02Collect group requirements
  3. 03Check approved venue information
  4. 04Confirm next authorised step
When something does not fit

The group needs a private area and a preparation guarantee not covered by the menu.

What happens next

Capture contact details and arrange specialist confirmation without promising suitability.

Inputs, checks and measurement
What starts the workflow
An enquiry specifies group size, date and a dietary request.
Before taking action
Use current capacity and route dietary uncertainty to the responsible staff member.
Measure the change
Enquiry handling time and repeated clarification before confirmation.

The delivery does not match the kitchen order

Finished result

A reconciled receipt and clear supplier follow-up for unresolved differences.

  1. 01Compare delivery to PO
  2. 02Record approved substitutions
  3. 03Match invoice quantities
  4. 04Prepare supplier discrepancy
When something does not fit

A substitute changes pack size and price while the invoice still shows the original item.

What happens next

Hold the disputed line and request a corrected invoice or authorised credit.

Inputs, checks and measurement
What starts the workflow
Receiving staff record missing or substituted ingredients.
Before taking action
Keep temperature or food-safety concerns on the venue’s specialist escalation path.
Measure the change
Receiving admin time and unresolved supplier credits.

An eligible guest has not returned

Finished result

An appropriate follow-up with exclusions and outcomes recorded.

  1. 01Check contact eligibility
  2. 02Exclude recent returns and complaints
  3. 03Select approved relevant offer
  4. 04Track delivery and response
When something does not fit

A guest has an unresolved service complaint or already redeemed the offer elsewhere.

What happens next

Route the complaint to service recovery and suppress unsuitable promotion.

Inputs, checks and measurement
What starts the workflow
A review identifies a permitted contact outside the usual visit pattern.
Before taking action
Respect exclusions, frequency rules and offer capacity before contact.
Measure the change
Delivery, redemption and return visits; incremental contribution assessed separately.
Fit before features

When custom work makes sense.

Use booking and POS features for standard reservations and loyalty. Custom coordination helps when requests, supplier changes and service recovery cross those systems.

Connect the records you already use

  • Reservations, POS and approved menu information
  • Supplier orders, deliveries and invoices
  • Guest enquiries and permitted customer contacts

Access, data quality and write permissions are checked during scoping. Integration availability depends on your systems.

Go deeper

The systems behind these scenarios.

Controls, responsibility and recovery

Agree who can change rules, approve exceptions and authorise each write. Keep a history of source records, rule versions and action results. Detect partial failures, reconcile before retrying and assign unresolved cases to a named owner.

AI can extract, classify and prepare information. Validated rules and agreed permissions govern consequential actions; missing evidence triggers review. Test normal cases, exceptions and recovery against acceptance criteria before launch.

Related operating experience

See the foundations running at G3.

G3 is our founder’s retail and venue business in Melbourne. Explore relevant capabilities and their boundaries; your industry’s rules still need their own design and validation.

Questions worth asking first.

Start with a sanitised example, the result you need and one awkward case. We will map a bounded first implementation.

Can the system answer allergy questions?

It can share current approved information and capture the request. Uncertainty, cross-contact concerns and special preparation need the responsible venue staff.

Will repeat-visit messages guarantee more revenue?

No. Eligibility and delivery can be tracked, but incremental contribution needs a suitable comparison and the costs of the offer.

Can you connect our POS and booking system without replacing either?

Start by checking available records and permitted actions in each system. A table booking, POS transaction and marketing contact may represent different people or groups, so agree identifiers and matching rules before linking them. Use supported APIs or controlled exports where suitable; availability depends on the products and access you have.

How do different venues keep their own booking and service rules?

Keep capacity, group deposits, opening times, equipment and approval limits attached to the correct venue. Shared information can have a common source while local exceptions remain explicit. Pilot a defined enquiry type at one location and test transfers or changed dates before allowing broader booking actions.

Can supplier substitutions be checked against the kitchen order and invoice?

Compare the ordered item and unit, delivered substitute, accepted quantity and invoiced price. A smaller pack can change unit cost even when the carton price looks similar. Route unapproved substitutions or unexplained differences to the kitchen or purchasing owner, with the delivery record available for the supplier query.

Do we need an ongoing Canvo subscription?

No mandatory Canvo subscription. An agreed implementation includes 12 months of support for the delivered workflows, defects and minor compatibility changes to existing integrations. Optional proactive care and further development are scoped separately. Software, hosting and API costs remain separate.

Your operation, your rules

Bring the handoff that keeps going wrong.

Free workflow review. A$950 ex GST diagnostic. A bounded first deployment from A$4,900 ex GST, with 12 months of included support for the agreed implementation.

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