Restaurant AI integration

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Hi everyone,

I’m currently developing an AI assistant for a restaurant that handles tasks like table reservations, order management, and customer communication. I’m now exploring the possibility of integrating the restaurant’s cash register (POS) system with the AI agent using n8n.

Has anyone here had experience connecting a POS system (like iiko, R-Keeper, or any other) with an AI or chatbot through n8n?

I’m especially interested in:

Syncing real-time order/payment data
Triggering workflows based on purchases
Allowing the AI assistant to access pricing or menu info

Any tips, integrations, or insights would be greatly appreciated!

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I have not directlty, but the concepts should be simple. You need to get access to the POS system’s API if they have any. Then you can build workflows which call these APIs for specific things like Get Order, Submit Order, etc

Then once you have these workflows built using the POS apis, you can simply use them as tools in your AI agent.

MCP would prob be your best option as you can have a single MCP server hosting multiple tools instead of building a tool per function