Hot Food Waste Tracker: what this AI agent does and how to use it
Tracks hot-food cabinet waste by item and hour and adjusts cooking batches to cut waste. Who it's for, the questions it answers, the data it needs and how to switch it on.
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What it does
Store associates need fast, practical answers on the shop floor: stock, policies and what to show a returning customer. The Hot Food Waste Tracker agent is the specialist for this job: tracks hot-food cabinet waste by item and hour and adjusts cooking batches to cut waste.
Who it's for
Your team. It runs in the console for your staff and through the REST API. It is a team agent, so it is never exposed to shoppers.
Questions it answers
Ask it in any of our languages, for example:
- "Where are we wasting the most hot food?"
- "Fix the evening hot food batches at Union Metro"
- "Which hot food items should we cook less of?"
The live demo shows these as sample prompts in your language, on a fictional store's data.
How it works
- It understands the question in the language it was written in, even when your catalog is in another language.
- It looks things up with tools, never from memory:
- Waste_report
- Sales_by_hour
- Search over your policies and faqs, with citations
- It answers from your data, in your brand voice and currency, and shows which tools it used.
- Rules stay in code. Prices, eligibility and permissions come from your data and settings; the agent explains them and can't invent them. Why this matters.
The data it needs
Orders, Order lines, Products, Waste & markdowns. As soon as these tables are loaded, the agent is ready to switch on. Files can use your own column names: they're mapped automatically. See Connect your data.
Works well with
- Store Staff Copilot: Store associates ask about products, policies, stock and hours from the shop floor.
- Clienteling Assistant: Prepares a client brief (tier, past orders) and suggests products to show a returning customer.
- Visual Merchandising Guide: Suggests what to put in windows and front tables from best sellers, stock and current promotions.
- Stock Count Assistant: Plans cycle counts by location and value, prioritising fast sellers and suspicious stock.
- Size Availability Gap Checker: Finds best-selling styles with key sizes missing in stock so the team can transfer or reorder.
Your team can use them side by side in the console, or call each one through the API.
Turn it on
- Load the data it needs.
- Install Hot Food Waste Tracker from the Agent catalog and add your own instructions (guide).
- Test it in the Playground, in every language you serve.
- Invite your team or call it from your own systems.
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