Alain.AI: Creating a Chef’s Digital Twin

Alain Coumont founded Le Pain Quotidien focused on organic ingredients and the brand is now adding a new ingredient to the mix: artifical intelligence. Partnering with November Five, Le Pain Quotidien launched Alain.AI, a tool that can be called the world's first digital twin of a chef-founder and used to help with menu development, recipe standardization, and culinary innovation.

"As a restaurant business, we use AI to go faster and to develop the business further," Annick Van Overstraeten, CEO of Le Pain Quotidien, told Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine. "Our entire F&B team spent several months inputting recipes, testing, and training the system. We are still in the process of continuously improving it.  Typically, F&B professionals, being more creative, are hesitant to use technology in their recipe creation processes. However, they embraced Alain.AI very fast and use it daily, which indicates our success in implementing technology to grow and improve our…