Connecting an AI Assistant to Your Restaurant
Link Claude, ChatGPT, or another AI assistant to Lekro so you can run your restaurant by chatting with it.
Dashboard only
Lekro already has an AI assistant built into the dashboard. This guide is about the other direction: connecting the AI tool you already use (Claude, ChatGPT, or anything similar) directly to your restaurant, so you can ask it things like “what did we take last Friday?” or “add a summer drinks section to the menu” without opening the dashboard at all.
You only set this up once, and you can undo it at any time.
What you’ll need
- A Lekro account that owns a restaurant. Staff accounts can’t authorize a connection.
- An AI tool that supports custom connectors. On Claude that’s any paid plan; on ChatGPT it’s the Plus and Pro tiers.
The address you’ll connect to is always the same:
https://mcp.lekro.com/mcpConnecting from Claude
Open Settings → Connectors and choose Add custom connector. Paste the address above, confirm, and Claude will hand you over to Lekro to sign in.
You’ll land on a Lekro page (not a generic login box) asking whether you want to give Claude access to your account. It names the app that’s asking, spells out exactly what that app will be able to do, and tells you where it’s about to send you back to, so read those before you go on. Press Continue and you’ll be asked to sign in; Cancel backs out and nothing is shared.
Connecting from Claude Code
If you work in the terminal, one command does it:
claude mcp add --transport http lekro https://mcp.lekro.com/mcpThen run /mcp inside a session and pick Authenticate. Your browser opens on the same consent page as above. Add -s user to the command if you want the connection available in every project rather than just the current one.
Signing in
Use the same details you use for the dashboard: your email or phone number with your password, or the Google or Apple button if that’s how you normally sign in.
Two things surprise people here:
- Signing in on this page doesn’t sign you into the dashboard, and being signed into the dashboard already doesn’t skip this step. The two are deliberately separate, so authorizing an AI tool never quietly hands it your dashboard session.
- Your password never reaches the AI tool. You type it on a Lekro page, and the assistant only ever receives a limited access token that you can revoke.
If you’ve never set your own password (because your account was created for you and you were asked to change it at first login), sign in to the dashboard once and set it there first, then come back.
What it can and can’t do
Once connected, the assistant works only inside the restaurants your account owns. It can never reach another restaurant’s data.
It can read almost anything: your menu, reservations, orders, opening hours, reviews, and your sales figures. It can also make everyday changes: adding and editing menu items, adjusting prices, and updating your website content and settings.
What it deliberately cannot do is anything destructive. It can’t delete anything, it can’t change your currency, and it can’t close your account. Those one-way actions are left out entirely, so a misunderstood instruction can’t cost you your data. They stay in the dashboard, behind their own confirmations. The consent screen lists these limits before you agree to anything.
Remember that whatever the assistant reads is then handled by whoever makes it (Anthropic, OpenAI, or another provider) under their privacy policy rather than Lekro’s. Our side of that is described in the Privacy Policy.
Disconnecting
Remove the connector from the AI tool you added it to, and its access ends immediately. In Claude that’s Settings → Connectors; in Claude Code, claude mcp remove lekro. Nothing in your restaurant changes. You’re only withdrawing the assistant’s permission to reach it.