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Restaurant commerce that AI assistants can use

People are starting to ask AI assistants where to eat and what to order. Thmenu does not try to be the assistant; it gives assistants a reliable way to work with restaurants. Through Thmenu's MCP server an assistant can find a listed restaurant, read its live menu, check reservation slots, request a booking and prepare an order — and the guest confirms before anything is placed or paid.

Cafés and restaurants listed in the Thmenu directory can both be found this way, and the guest still confirms every order.

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Discovery → Availability → Reservation → Menu → Order

  1. Discovery

    The assistant searches restaurants that chose to be listed in the Thmenu directory.

  2. Menu and availability

    It reads the live menu and the open reservation slots — the same data your guests see.

  3. Reservation or order

    It can request a reservation, or build a cart and, with the guest's sign-in, place an order.

  4. The guest confirms

    Payment is never taken by the assistant; the guest finishes on the restaurant's own confirmation page.

How it is built

  1. 01

    An open protocol

    Thmenu speaks the Model Context Protocol (MCP), which assistants use to call tools.

  2. 02

    Proper sign-in

    Actions on a guest's behalf use OAuth 2.0 with PKCE and narrow scopes, so an assistant can only do what the guest allowed.

  3. 03

    Restaurant opt-in

    A restaurant appears to assistants only if it chose to be listed, and accepts assistant orders only if it switched them on.

  4. 04

    Orders are labelled

    Orders that came through an assistant are marked as such in the staff orders screen.

The Thmenu staff orders screen with a source filter that includes AI Agent, above table orders and their status
Orders placed through an AI assistant can be filtered in the staff orders screen (sample restaurant).

Good to know

Assistants differ
Whether a given assistant can use MCP tools depends on that assistant. The menu, reservation and order data stay the same either way.

Questions and answers

Can an AI assistant pay for an order?
No. Payment is never taken by the assistant; the guest finishes on the restaurant's own confirmation page.
Will my restaurant appear in AI assistants automatically?
No. Assistants only see restaurants that chose to be listed in the Thmenu directory, and only order channels the restaurant has switched on.
How do staff know an order came from an assistant?
Orders that came through an assistant carry their own mark on the kitchen screen.

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