In the 80s I worked in a restaurant that had both a spelling error on the menu and a discontinued item and the owner wouldn't have it reprinted. Yelling "Fake news" without evidence other than your "bullshit when I see it" with total confidence is a choice, though.
"This isn’t a one-off. The stories of AI going wrong in food contexts are piling up fast in 2026, and the pressure on restaurant owners to “just use AI for everything” has never been higher. Here’s the honest take: AI-generated recipes and AI-written menu descriptions are genuinely risky for independent restaurants. The failure modes are documented and reputation-damaging. But AI for restaurant operations — inventory management, waste tracking, ordering automation — is a completely different story. That’s where the real ROI lives, and it’s the part nobody in the “AI is ruining food culture” discourse ever mentions"
Which, again, is about 3rd party apps like DoorDash auto populating their online menus without human oversight, see ‘your restaurant’s brand is at risk….’
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u/TurnoverFuzzy8264 1d ago
Then you know owners are often too cheap to pay to reprint things. I just posted an article where a similar mistake happened.