AI Elevates

It's 5:40 a.m. on the Monday of startup week. The cafeteria lights buzz on one bank at a time, the walk-in compressor kicks over, and the office desk is already stacked: blank production record templates, a menu worksheet that still needs component counts, two half-finished substitute applications, and a sticky note that says the new combi oven never got commissioned. Nobody is thinking about AI for school nutrition at 5:40 in the morning. They're thinking about whether the milk order lands before Thursday. If you run nutrition services for a district, this week is your Super Bowl and your tax season stacked on top of each other. The menus got finalized in July. Now comes everything else: onboarding staff who have never seen your serving lines, loading meal prices into the POS, answering parent emails about allergens and account balances, and reading the state agency's back-to-school memo before the deadline buried on page nine. And if you're the dealer, consultant...