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Use an AI assistant to find a kitchen and start an order

AI assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT and Grok can help you find a kitchen on Stovefront, compare what is on the menu this week and fill a cart for you. You still place the order yourself, on the kitchen's own storefront.

What an assistant can and can't do​

An assistant connected to Stovefront can:

  • find kitchens that have food open for ordering, by dish, dietary need, pickup date or area
  • read a kitchen's menu: prices, dietary tags, allergen notes, how many are left, pickup times and place names, order deadlines and the payment methods the kitchen accepts
  • list a kitchen's upcoming pickup and delivery times
  • give you a link to the kitchen's storefront with your chosen dishes already in the cart

It can't place an order, pay for one or sign you up for anything. When you open the link, check the cart, add your details and select Save request for confirmation. The kitchen then confirms your order request, as with any order. You pay the kitchen through its card checkout or the payment methods it lists, never through the assistant.

After you send it, your confirmation screen and email have a View order status link for that order. It is yours to keep; an assistant doesn't receive it unless you share it.

If something in the link can't be ordered any more, for example because it sold out, the storefront leaves it out and tells you why in the cart. Dishes with options to choose, like a size, need to be added from the menu yourself.

Connect Stovefront to your assistant​

Stovefront's connector address is:

https://app.stovefront.com/mcp

It needs no account, password or sign-in. Add it as a custom connector in your assistant:

  • Claude: open the connector settings, choose to add a custom connector, and paste the address.
  • ChatGPT: in settings, add a new connector or app by its address, and paste the address. Choose no authentication if asked. Adding connectors by address may depend on your ChatGPT plan and on developer settings being turned on.
  • Grok: where Grok lets you add a connector by address, paste the address.

Menus and settings move around as these apps change, so look for "connectors", "integrations" or "apps" in your assistant's settings. Stovefront is not listed in these assistants' own directories yet, so add it by its address.

You can also just give an assistant a kitchen's storefront link and ask about the menu. Assistants that read web pages can see the menu that is open for ordering.

Things to ask​

  • "Find a home kitchen near Santa Cruz with vegetarian dinners I can pick up on Thursday."
  • "What's on the menu at mybiteofheaven.com this week, and when is the order deadline?"
  • "Make me an order link for two trays of the lasagna and one salad."

What the assistant sees​

Only what the kitchen's public storefront already shows. The assistant gets no information about you, other customers or past orders. Pickup street addresses are never shared with assistants; the kitchen shares the exact place after your order. Sample storefronts, which show how Stovefront works, never appear in an assistant's search.

For cooks​

There is nothing to set up. Kitchens that can take orders appear in assistant searches, the same kitchens that are listed for search engines. If you turn off search indexing (open Website → Pages → Pages & navigation, then SEO), your kitchen is left out of assistant searches too, although someone who already has your storefront link can still ask about it.

An order started by an assistant arrives like any other order request: you confirm it, and the customer pays through your card checkout or payment methods.

Developers can read the same public menu data through Stovefront's public API, described at https://app.stovefront.com/api/public/openapi.json.

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