Restaurant Sales & Inventory Forecasting System using Gemini AI & Google Sheets
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Automate your restaurant's weekly sales and raw material forecasting with this n8n workflow. It leverages historical data from Google Sheets and cutting-edge AI predictions powered by Google Gemini to provide accurate insights, ensuring efficient planning and significant waste reduction.
About This Workflow
Revolutionize your restaurant operations with this powerful n8n workflow designed for intelligent sales and inventory forecasting. Scheduled to run weekly, it meticulously pulls historical sales and raw material usage data directly from your Google Sheets. This data is then fed into a Google Gemini AI agent, which acts as a specialized demand forecasting assistant. The AI analyzes past trends, predicts next week's dish sales, and precisely calculates the raw material quantities required to meet that demand. The generated forecast is then logged back into Google Sheets for easy tracking and can be automatically emailed to key stakeholders. This end-to-end automation empowers restaurants to make data-driven decisions, optimize inventory, minimize food waste, and streamline procurement, leading to substantial cost savings and improved efficiency.
Key Features
- Automated Weekly Forecasting: Set it and forget it! The workflow automatically runs weekly to generate fresh predictions.
- AI-Powered Predictions with Gemini: Utilizes Google Gemini's advanced AI capabilities to analyze historical data and forecast future sales and material needs with high accuracy.
- Seamless Google Sheets Integration: Reads historical sales data and logs new forecasts directly into your Google Sheets.
- Intelligent Raw Material Calculation: Automatically determines the precise quantities of ingredients required based on sales forecasts and inferred usage rates.
- Stakeholder Notification: Prepares forecasts for easy sharing via email to relevant team members (as per workflow overview).
How To Use
- Configure Weekly Trigger: Adjust the 'Trigger Weekly Forecast' node to your preferred day and time for weekly execution.
- Connect Google Sheets: Update the 'Load Historical Sales Data' and 'Log Forecast to Google Sheets' nodes with your specific Google Sheet Document ID and sheet names for historical data and logging forecasts, respectively. Ensure proper service account authentication.
- Set Up Gemini AI Credentials: Provide your Google Gemini API credentials in the 'Chat Model' node, which powers the 'Generate Forecast with AI' agent.
- Review AI Agent Prompt: While pre-configured, you can review the 'systemMessage' in 'Generate Forecast with AI' to understand how Gemini is instructed to process your data and format the output.
- (Optional) Add Email Notification: Extend the workflow with an email node to automatically send the generated forecast to your stakeholders.
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Workflow JSON
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}Note: This is a sample preview. The full workflow JSON contains node configurations, credentials placeholders, and execution logic.
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