Founder, 2018 · Director
Breakthrough Design Studio
His hospitality concept, design and development practice, which leads projects such as Ālaya Café & Bar in Shillong. The studio’s design and consultancy work is set out on its own website.
About
Rish Saini
Rish Saini is the founder of AI for Hospitality, a restaurateur and practical AI specialist helping restaurant, bar and café professionals turn AI’s capabilities into useful business systems.
He shares methods, tools and lessons developed through firsthand work in his businesses and hospitality projects.
By a restaurateur. For hospitality professionals.
How Rish works
The same approach runs through every example on this site. It comes from using AI in working businesses, not demos.
- Start with a real taskSomething that comes back every week, costs time or goes wrong too often. Sometimes a simpler process is the better answer, and setup, subscriptions and review time belong in the sum.
- Give AI the business’s own materialMenus, brand facts, standards and handwritten sheets. Photograph instead of retyping, dictate on site walks, and push back on anything generic: give the real venue, city, dates and guest.
- Write the rules onceA brand bible, saved preferences and fixed templates mean outputs start on-brand, and one source feeds the PDF, the Word file and the deck.
- Check before anything is usedAI drafts; people decide. Second passes, a visual check of every document and challenging the numbers. Big studies run in approved stages, with modelled figures labelled.
- Turn what works into a systemRepeat jobs become Skills and scheduled routines, with approval for anything that acts in a live tool. The right tool for each job: Claude for documents, analysis and systems; ChatGPT for editing images.
- Share it, and keep improvingThe method, the checks and the mistakes, with every example labelled by where it stands, updated as the businesses and the tools change.
The businesses behind the work
Rish has worked in hospitality for around 20 years. The examples on this site come from the businesses he runs and the projects he leads.
Founder, 2011 · Director
Underdoggs
The sports-bar brand Rish started in 2011 and still directs, now ten venues across India. Here AI has checked a costing workbook, is reworking a new venue’s menu and turns site walks into snag lists.
Director
Mrs Kaur’s
The bakery and café brand his father, Preet Saini, started in 2006; Rish has been a director since 2009. Here AI drafts Google review replies under a written standard, has read six months of till data and has sent a WhatsApp campaign.
What he’s built so far
Rish keeps a log of the ways he uses AI: 95 so far. These are some of them, each labelled with where it stands.
- In useFrom site walk to organised snag listA new Underdoggs venue
- In useFrom generic brief to venue-specific launch planĀlaya Café & Bar, Shillong
- In useMinutes and action lists with a named ownerUnderdoggs
- CompletedUsing sales data to inform opening hoursMrs Kaur’s
- CompletedRecipe cards from handwriting, with a reusable SkillĀlaya Café & Bar, Shillong
- CompletedAuditing a costing workbookUnderdoggs
- In developmentDrafting review replies in the brand’s voiceMrs Kaur’s
Why he shares it
Most owners don’t have time to test every tool on their own business. AI for Hospitality shares what worked, with the checks and the mistakes, so you can start from something tried in a working venue.
Questions, corrections or the task you’d most like help with: email rish@aiforhospitality.in.