Chef: AI Helpers in This Career

End-of-lesson check

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1. What is 'demand forecasting' in restaurant operations?

   1. Calculating how much profit a menu item makes
   2. Tracking which suppliers deliver ingredients
   3. Using AI to predict how many customers will come on a given night
   4. Weighing ingredients before cooking

2. A restaurant wants to reduce food waste. How can AI help with this goal?

   1. By creating new ingredients from scratch
   2. By suggesting recipes that use ingredients close to their expiration dates
   3. By recommending which suppliers to use based on weather
   4. By automatically turning off ovens when food is done

3. What does the term 'inventory' mean in a restaurant kitchen?

   1. The list of ingredients and supplies a restaurant has on hand
   2. The money owed to food suppliers
   3. The recipes written down for each dish
   4. The schedule of when chefs work

4. What is 'menu engineering'?

   1. Translating menus into different languages
   2. Designing menus to maximize profit and popularity
   3. Printing menus for customers to read
   4. Creating pictures of food for menus

5. How does Toast use AI in restaurant operations?

   1. To drive delivery trucks to customer homes
   2. To predict how busy a restaurant will be on a given night
   3. To take orders directly from customers
   4. To cook food automatically without chefs

6. What specific task does Lineup.ai help restaurants with?

   1. Staff scheduling and assigning workers to shifts
   2. Choosing which menu items to remove
   3. Designing the restaurant's interior layout
   4. Deciding what prices to charge

7. A chef receives an AI suggestion for a recipe using tomatoes that expire in two days. What is the main benefit of this suggestion?

   1. Reducing waste by using ingredients before they spoil
   2. Saving money on electricity
   3. Finding a new supplier for tomatoes
   4. Making the dish taste more like Italian food

8. What does AI typically do when creating menu descriptions for delivery apps?

   1. Takes photos of the food
   2. Delivers the food to customers
   3. Drafts appealing text that highlights dish features
   4. Decides what ingredients to buy

9. Why do restaurants need to predict how busy they'll be on a Friday night?

   1. To plan how much food to prepare and how many staff members to schedule
   2. To decide what music to play
   3. To determine how much to charge for parking
   4. To choose which customers to serve first

10. What aspect of running a restaurant does the lesson say AI handles?

    1. Deciding what foods taste best
    2. Creating new ingredients that don't exist
    3. Teaching customers how to eat
    4. Mathematical and data-driven tasks like predicting and scheduling

11. What type of system is Toast?

    1. A cooking robot that makes food
    2. A point-of-sale system that handles orders and payments
    3. A delivery service for customers
    4. A refrigerator that keeps food cold

12. A chef notices AI suggesting a dish with fish that must be used tomorrow. What problem is the AI helping prevent?

    1. Equipment breakdown in the kitchen
    2. Staff conflicts over scheduling
    3. Food waste from unused fish spoiling
    4. Customer complaints about the menu

13. What information does a restaurant POS system collect that helps with AI predictions?

    1. The recipes used by each chef
    2. Sales history and order patterns over time
    3. Customer home addresses
    4. Employee birthdays

14. Why might a restaurant use AI to write descriptions for delivery app menus?

    1. To quickly create appealing text for many menu items at once
    2. To deliver food faster
    3. To take professional photographs of dishes
    4. To set prices for the entire menu

15. What would happen if a restaurant relied only on AI predictions without any human oversight?

    1. The food would automatically taste better
    2. The AI might miss unexpected events like a nearby concert causing a crowd surge
    3. The restaurant would never need to buy food
    4. Customers would never order anything