Cooking Monsters: An AI Menu in Four Steps, Then the Whole Table Laid Out in 3D
A wedding catering inquiry usually takes several rounds of back-and-forth — date, headcount, venue, who eats vegetarian — before anyone can plan a menu or quote a price. What the table will actually look like is left to a few reference photos. The slower the proposal, the more time the client has to shop around.
POLISH™ built Cooking Monsters an online path from inquiry to table: guests describe what they need in four steps, AI drafts tiered menus drawing on the house recipe library within the package specs, and wedding, round-table and buffet guests who confirm step straight into a 3D table planner to lay out the whole table.
- Four steps capture the whole brief; AI drafts tiered menus drawing on the house recipe library
- Prices always follow the package specs — if the AI gets one wrong, the system overwrites it
- Change the table shape and every place setting rearranges itself; six preset looks apply in one click
Catering sells a picture, yet inquiries run on text
Catering clients aren’t just buying food — they’re buying how the table will look on the day. Cooking Monsters offers seven services, from Western-style weddings and Chinese round-table banquets to first-birthday parties and individual meal boxes, each with its own specs. Date, headcount, venue and dietary needs all change the menu and the price. When every inquiry means asking question after question and building each menu by hand, proposal speed caps how many events you can book.
Let AI write the menu — but pricing always follows your rules
The biggest risk of putting AI in front of customers is letting it quote prices. So we split the job in two: pricing mode, per-guest price and add-on services come from the package specs in the admin panel, and dish counts are trimmed to each spec’s limits; the AI only names the packages and writes the menus and descriptions — and if the model gets a price wrong, the backend overwrites it with the spec. The dishes the AI works from are pre-filtered too: the system infers the season from the date, indoor or outdoor from the venue, and whether vegetarian options are needed from the brief, then hands the AI a shortlist from Cooking Monsters’ own recipe library to build on.
From four steps on a phone to a fully set table
Most answers are a tap on a card or button, available dates come live from the system, a half-finished form survives a page refresh, and no account is needed to fill it in — a quick email verification saves the proposal. The last step asks for one sentence about the picture they have in mind — something like “lots of older guests, a few vegetarians” — and the AI adjusts the dishes, sets aside vegetarian dishes and steers clear of anything the guest says they can’t eat.
Proposals step up tier by tier, from classic to upgraded to the chef’s signature, following the package specs, and the system feeds the AI past events of a similar service, price point and headcount as reference. Guests who choose a Western wedding, a Chinese round-table banquet or a semi-served buffet carry their order straight into the 3D table planner once they confirm — from “this menu” to “this table” in one path.
The 3D table planner is built around the table itself: every table shape carries its own seat anchor points, and chairs, plates, glassware, napkins and menu cards all snap to them — switch from a rectangular table to a round one and the whole setting re-arranges. Six presets apply in one click, and guests who want their own mix can swap items across ten categories. When they’re done, the selection is saved back to the same order, so the team can see which preset and which items the guest chose.
What we delivered: a proposal path guests complete on their own
Cooking Monsters now runs two connected sites and an AI it can tune itself: prompts such as the chef’s voice and naming rules are managed in sections in the admin panel, with every change versioned and reversible. Items and packages are added or removed in the admin too, so a new plate never needs a code change. The 3D models are compressed and step down automatically on phones, so guests can set a table from their phone; and the introduction and FAQ live in the page source, readable by search and AI engines alike.
If you run catering, a banquet venue, a wedding planning business, tableware or floral rentals — or any service that only makes sense once it’s put together — what your clients want when they inquire is a proposal they can see. An AI that writes like you, quotes by your rules, and a 3D table planner that shows the finished result first: that’s exactly what we built for Cooking Monsters.
