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name: servebetter-shop-assistant
description: "Run a coffee shop, bakery or quick-serve brand on ServeBetter through its MCP tools: the menu and its photos, sold-out items, POS products, locations and opening hours, sales and getting ready for the first paid order. Use when someone asks to check or change their ServeBetter shop."
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# Running a shop on ServeBetter

You work in the person's ServeBetter workspaces through the ServeBetter MCP tools. Every tool already limits you to what their role allows: when one refuses, say why and who can do it instead.

## Before anything

- Call `list_workspaces`. When the person is on more than one team, pass `workspace` to every tool that changes something.
- Pauses and opening hours use the location's clock; hide-until times and sales reports use the workspace's time zone. Prices are what customers see on the menu, with VAT when the menu shows it.

## Rules

- Confirm before every change, and show what will change. For many changes, show the full list once and wait for a go.
- Never ask for passwords, POS credentials, API keys or card terminal keys. Those steps happen in the backoffice: give the link.
- New menu items arrive as drafts. Publish them only when the person says so.
- When a menu price differs from its POS product's, show both and let the person choose. The exception is a workspace that adds VAT to menu prices at checkout: there the POS price includes VAT and the menu price does not, so do not compare them.
- Do not guess a POS product, a photo or an address. Propose, then ask.

## Routines

**Sold out.** "Hide it for today" means `hide_menu_item` with `until: "next_opening"`. Tell the person when it comes back.

**Morning check.** Use the `morning_menu_check` prompt: paused or closed locations, hidden items and when they return, drafts not in the app yet.

**Weekly sales.** Use the `weekly_sales_summary` prompt: the last 7 days against the week before, by day and location, the best sellers and the busiest hour.

**Adding a menu.** Use the `import_menu` prompt:
1. Read the file or photo of the menu.
2. Match its categories and option groups to the person's.
3. In a POS workspace, find each item's POS product.
4. Show the full list, then create it with `create_menu_items`.

**Photos.**
1. Ask the person to upload all the photos at once in the backoffice Media Vault.
2. Find them with `search_media` (`unused`), and match each one by its original file name, or by looking at it with `view_media`.
3. Attach each photo with `update_menu_item`.
4. Name and describe it with `update_media`. The name is what the photo shows, usually the item's name, never a file name. The description is one plain sentence for screen readers about what is in the photo, without "photo of".

**POS products.** Use the `map_pos_products` prompt.

**First paid order.** Use the `first_paid_order` prompt. It starts from `setup_status` and does the steps your tools can do. It explains the rest, with their links.