Writing Item Details with AI

Writing a tempting line for every dish — and then listing ingredients, prep time, and calories on top of that — is the part of menu building most people put off. Lekro’s item editor can draft all of it from the name alone, so you start with something to edit instead of a blank field.

The description

The main description field has a small ✨ button beside it. Type the dish name, click it, and you get a short, appetising line written for that item. It’s a starting point, not the final word: read it over, trim anything that doesn’t sound like you, and keep what works.

The extra details

Further down the editor are the optional details that show on the item’s page: a longer story, an ingredient list, where the dish is from, its prep time, and its calories. Each of these has its own generate button, and there’s a Generate all option that fills every empty one in a single click.

“Generate all” is deliberately polite about it — it only writes into fields you’ve left blank, so anything you’ve already typed is safe. If you don’t like what it produced for one field, the button turns into a Regenerate, and you can re-roll just that field without disturbing the rest.

A note on languages

If your restaurant runs in more than one language, the editor asks which languages to write before it generates, and it can produce all of them in the same pass. The default language is written first so an ingredient list keeps a consistent order across translations. When you’d rather translate something you’ve already written by hand than generate it fresh, that’s a different tool — see Translating Your Menu.

Two habits make this work well: give the item a clear name before generating (the AI has little to go on otherwise), and always read the result before saving. It’s quick, accurate most of the time, and occasionally confidently wrong — your eye is the last check.