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Stovefront and AI assistants
Ready for AI assistants
Customers are starting to ask assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity to find dinner. Your Stovefront menu is ready to be read.
A customerAny vegetarian desserts I can pick up on Friday?
Your AI assistant
Marisol's Kitchen has Tres leches cups: $7 for two, vegetarian. Only 4 left. Order by Thursday at noon for pickup on Friday between 4 and 6 PM at Westside Community Kitchen. They take Venmo and Zelle.
Open the order page
What an assistant sees
Your live menu, written right into the page.
Some AI assistants read the words on a web page without running its interactive parts. Every Stovefront storefront puts its live menu straight into the page itself, so those assistants can see it too.
| What's in the page | Example from a sample kitchen |
|---|---|
| Dishes, prices and servings | Tres leches cups, $7, serves 2 |
| Dietary tags, such as vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, dairy-free, nut-free and spicy | Vegetarian |
| “Only a few left” when stock is low | Only 4 left |
| Pickup times and the pickup place name | Friday, 4–6 PM, at Westside Community Kitchen |
| Your order-by cutoff | Order by Thursday at noon |
| Pickup and delivery time slots | Friday pickup, 4:00–6:00 PM |
| The ways you accept payment: secure card checkout through your own Stripe account, Venmo, Zelle, Cash App, PayPal or cash | Venmo, Zelle |
Examples come from Marisol's Kitchen, a fictional sample storefront.
Only what can be ordered now
Past weeks, sold-out dishes and dishes past their order cutoff are left out or marked unavailable, so an assistant shouldn't suggest something a customer can't order.
In the language assistants understand
Your menu is also published in schema.org, the shared vocabulary Google and AI assistants use to understand businesses. It describes your food business, your menu, each dish, its price and availability, and where to order.
Works on your own domain too
Every storefront does this, including one on your own web address with Premium's custom storefront domain.
Real kitchens, not samples
Stovefront's sample storefronts are kept out of search results, so assistants find real kitchens.
Available now
Customers can connect their assistant to Stovefront.
Stovefront runs a connector that AI assistants can use directly. It speaks MCP (Model Context Protocol), the open standard assistants use to connect to outside tools. A customer adds this address in their assistant's connector settings, with no account or sign-in.
https://app.stovefront.com/mcp
Every tool on it only reads. It doesn't place orders or take payment.
Read the menu
Prices, dietary tags, allergen notes, how many are left, order cutoffs and the payment methods you accept.
Check pickup times
Your upcoming pickup and delivery times and the pickup place name, never a street address.
Hand over a filled cart
A link to your storefront with the chosen dishes already in the cart. The customer reviews it and sends the order request.
Easier storefronts for every visitor
Buttons are named after each dish, dish details open in a window you can use with a keyboard and close with Escape, and each storefront has one cart. That helps people using screen readers, and AI agents that use a web browser on someone's behalf.
A status link for every order
Each new order comes with a private order status link, on the confirmation screen and in the confirmation email, so customers can check whether you've confirmed it and find your payment options.
Only kitchens open to search
Assistant search lists the same kitchens search engines can find. If you hide your kitchen from search results in your SEO settings, it's left out of assistant search too.
For developers
The same public menu information is described in an OpenAPI document at app.stovefront.com/api/public/openapi.json.
You stay in control.
Assistants can help customers find your kitchen. You still decide what happens next.
Every order is a request
An order placed through your storefront, by a customer or by an assistant acting for them, arrives as a request. You confirm it.
Payment stays with you
Customers pay on Stripe's secure checkout page or through your own payment methods. Stovefront doesn't let AI agents take payment on their own.
No commission
Keep 100% of your food sales — no Stovefront commission. Card payments have standard Stripe processing fees.
Your home stays private.
The menu details Stovefront publishes for assistants never include your home or pickup street address. Only the pickup place name you chose is included, like “Westside Community Kitchen.”
We ask AI trainers to leave your recipes alone.
Your storefront asks AI training crawlers, such as OpenAI's GPTBot, Anthropic's ClaudeBot, Google-Extended and Common Crawl's CCBot, not to collect your photos and recipes for model training.
AI search and assistant bots can still read your menu, so customers can still find your kitchen through assistants.
The request lives in robots.txt, a standard file that tells web crawlers what they may collect. Reputable crawlers honor it, but it is a request, not a lock.
What's next
These are planned and not available yet. We'll share dates when we have them.
Be ready when customers ask.
Open your storefront today. Your menu works for the people who visit it and for the assistants they ask.