Arlington's Catering and Historic Venue is in Springfield, Illinois. Its co-owner uses ChatGPT and Claude to write routine checklists, like cleaning steps, and to scale recipes built for a small group up to large events. He now screenshots the recipe and gives the picture to the AI instead of typing it, which cut down his own typing mistakes.
Business type: Restaurants & cafés, Event companies. Tool used: ChatGPT and Claude. Result: The article reports he uses it to scale recipes made for 25 to 30 people up to, for example, 330 people. No time or money figure was given.
Source: Springfield Business Journal (Owner's own story) · Added Wed, Oct 28 · Last updated 2026-10-28
The article reports he uses it to scale recipes made for 25 to 30 people up to, for example, 330 people. No time or money figure was given. (as reported by the source)
Arlington's Catering and Historic Venue is in Springfield, Illinois. Its co-owner uses ChatGPT and Claude to write routine checklists, like cleaning steps, and to scale recipes built for a small group up to large events. He now screenshots the recipe and gives the picture to the AI instead of typing it, which cut down his own typing mistakes.
ChatGPT and Claude.
The article reports he uses it to scale recipes made for 25 to 30 people up to, for example, 330 people. No time or money figure was given. (as reported by the source)
Take a photo or screenshot of the recipe you want to scale. Give it to the AI with the original servings and the new head count. Ask it to convert units into the ones your kitchen uses.
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Here is a recipe that serves [25] (photo attached). Scale it to [330] servings. Convert everything to [pounds/quarts], round to amounts we can buy, and show a shopping list. Flag any step that changes at large batch sizes, like baking time.
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