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AI in Hospitality: Stop Investing in Guests, Start Investing in People

Experts
August 3, 2026

Most hospitality operators are pointing AI at the wrong target. They're optimising menus, building guest chatbots, and chasing surface-level wins - while the real opportunity is sitting on the people side of the business.

In this episode, All Gravy CEO Jonatan unpacks why AI's biggest impact in hospitality isn't guest-facing - it's operational. We talk about using AI as a personal mentor for every new hire, killing onboarding anxiety in the first 90 days, turning operators into prolific content creators, and giving multi-location HQs a data brain that actually surfaces what matters.

You'll hear concrete examples (Pizza Pilgrims' "Joshua" bot, customers saving 2+ days of admin work, beta users seeing major time savings), why context-rich AI beats generic ChatGPT for hospitality, and what's coming next on All Gravy's roadmap - including a proactive AI that reaches out when something's off across your locations.

If you run 10+ locations, this one's for you.

It's All Gravy is a hospitality podcast where we dig out the best stories from industry leaders - about comms, learning, AI, and Gen Z.