Hospitality
More time on the floor, less on the admin.
Lexi prepares the bookings, the shift cover and the takings, and shows you what needs your decision.

Is any of this yours?
What we see in hospitality venues
The phone goes unanswered during service.
No one can reach the phone
A table enquiry and a late cancellation, both waiting.
Lexi drafts the reply
It checks the live booking and offers the next available times.
You confirm the booking
The duty manager checks the table and the guest before it is sent.
Prepared by Lexi
Booking reply
Ready to check
With the duty manager
Duty manager
Waits for a yes.
A table enquiry and a freed table to offer.
Waiting for youSent to the guest.
Function enquiries wait too long for a reply.
The quote is still not built
A date, a party size and a menu question, all in an inbox.
Lexi drafts the quote pack
It matches the date and the party size and lines up the banquet order.
You set the price
The functions coordinator decides the final price before it goes.
Prepared by Lexi
Quote pack
Ready to check
With the functions coordinator
Functions coordinator
Waits for a yes.
The quote is ready. The final price is yours.
Waiting for youQuote sent to the client.
The roster is rebuilt by hand every week.
The roster is still a spreadsheet
The bookings are in the system, the shift plan is not.
Lexi prepares the roster
It builds options from the booked covers and who is qualified.
You approve the shift plan
The head chef decides what is safe before it is published.
Prepared by Lexi
Draft roster
Ready to check
With the head chef
Head chef
Waits for a yes.
A short shift. The safe call is yours.
Waiting for youPublished to the team.
The takings wait until month end to reconcile.
The numbers do not agree yet
Daily sales, supplier invoices and the bank, all apart.
Lexi prepares the reconciliation
It matches the takings to the bank and the invoices to the deliveries.
You approve the pay run
Nothing is paid until the owner or licensee says yes.
Prepared by Lexi
Takings reconciliation
Ready to check
With the owner or licensee
Owner or licensee
Waits for a yes.
The takings are matched and the invoices checked. The pay run needs your yes.
Waiting for youPay run approved.
Your Lexi workspace
Your week, without the guesswork.
Your week at a glance
Sample Hospitality Co. / Across the business
2 waiting on a person, 2 running, 2 done, 2 did not happen in this sample week.
The week in view
8 work items across the week
Waiting on you
Sample Hospitality Co. / Decisions and the work behind them
The phone and the book / Venue or duty manager, front of house lead
Functions and events / Functions coordinator or venue manager, head chef
On their queue
Venue or duty manager / One person's day
The phone and the book / Venue or duty manager, front of house lead
Waiting on someone else
Venue or duty manager / One person's day
Functions and events / Functions coordinator or venue manager, head chef
Service and the shift / Head chef, kitchen team
Takings, accounts and payroll / Bookkeeper, owner
Finished
Venue or duty manager / One person's day
Staff, licences and safety / Owner or licensee, venue manager
The owner's week / Owner or licensee, venue manager
A working estimate for your venue
What it is worth to you
Pick the work. Watch Lexi do it. See what comes back.
A$58,367 back each year
1,153.7 hours back for other work each year.
A$1,216 and 24.0 hours a weekA$4,864 and 96.1 hours a month
This work costs you A$87,694 a year today.
Potential value of enquiries caught: a year.
The phone and the book
Not counted. Tick it above to count it.
The phone and the book
- Capture table and function enquiries into a draft requestReads and drafts
- Approve the guest booking or function handoverDuty manager decides
- Approve guest confirmation templates and consent rulesDuty manager decides
- Send booking confirmations and reminders and process the repliesAutomation
- Draft the no-show or cancellation follow-upReads and drafts
- Decide the no-show response and any deposit requirementDuty manager decides
- Decide the answer to dietary and allergen questionsDuty manager decides
- Prepare waitlist options for an available tableAutomation
- Approve the guest waitlist offerDuty manager decides
- Build the pass sheet for tonight's bookings with dietary flags, VIPs and large partiesAutomation
- Decide to overbook against no-show history on a Friday or SaturdayDuty manager decides
- Handle the complaint call about a booking that went wrongDuty manager or owner decides
Functions and events
- Draft the function enquiry reply and information packReads and drafts
- Approve and send the function enquiry packFunction coordinator decides
- Draft quote lines and the banquet event orderReads and drafts
- Approve the function price and quoteFunction coordinator decides
- Approve event deposit requests and balance remindersOwner decides
- Chase the deposit and the running balance before the eventAutomation
- Draft the event review request and repliesReads and drafts
- Approve the event feedback contact and review replyOwner decides
- Confirm final numbers, cutoff and dietary requirements and lock the kitchen orderFunctions coordinator decides
- Approve the exact specials, music and availability postsOwner decides
- Post the week's specials, live music and function availability to social and Google Business ProfileAutomation
- Approve function-enquiry reminder templateFunction coordinator decides
- Follow up a function enquiry that has gone quietAutomation
- Negotiate the room hire rate or menu upgrade for a repeat corporate clientOwner or functions coordinator decides
Service and the shift
- Prepare the proposed service rosterAutomation
- Approve and publish the service rosterVenue manager decides
- Prepare qualified shift-cover optionsAutomation
- Approve the shift offer and replacementVenue manager decides
- Take the order and fire it to the kitchenFront of house decides
- Read supplier delivery dockets and check them against the orderReads and drafts
- Prepare a stock purchase proposal from par levelsAutomation
- Approve the stock purchase orderHead chef decides
- Approve the confirmed guest-order routing rulesDuty manager decides
- Route confirmed guest orders to the kitchenAutomation
- Write the shift handover: 86'd items, VIP tables, equipment faults, anything the next shift needs to knowReads and drafts
- Decide to 86 a dish or close the kitchen earlyHead chef decides
Takings, accounts and payroll
- Reconcile the day's POS takings against the bank depositAutomation
- Approve the takings reconciliationOwner decides
- Read supplier invoices and match them to the delivery docket and purchase orderReads and drafts
- Approve corporate debtor and deposit remindersOwner decides
- Chase outstanding function deposits and corporate account balancesAutomation
- Calculate the proposed tip and service-charge splitAutomation
- Approve the tip and service-charge split before paymentVenue manager decides
- Track cost of goods sold and menu item margin weeklyAutomation
- Prepare the BAS and GST draft inputsAutomation
- Review and lodge the hospitality BASRegistered tax or BAS agent decides
- Run payroll under the Hospitality Industry (General) Award including penalty rates and split shifts, and check the exceptionsBookkeeper decides
- Prepare projected labour-cost flags from the proposed rosterAutomation
Staff, licences and safety
- Track RSA, RSA marshal, food safety supervisor and working with children certification for every staff memberAutomation
- Extract staff certificates into a draft recordReads and drafts
- Confirm staff certification and eligibilityVenue manager decides
- Summarise temperature and food-safety checklist exceptionsReads and drafts
- Decide the response to a food-safety exceptionFood safety supervisor decides
- Decide whether an incident, a refusal of service or a patron removal is reportableVenue manager or licensee decides
- Manage the liquor licence: renewal, trading hours and patron capacity conditionsOwner or licensee decides
- Draft the incident register entryReads and drafts
- Review and sign the venue incident entryDuty manager decides
- Collate the evidence pack for a council food safety audit or a licensing inspectionAutomation
- Prepare new-starter paperwork and credential checksAutomation
- Approve the starter classification and signed recordsVenue manager decides
The owner's week
- Pull the numbers together from the POS, rostering, accounting and booking systemsAutomation
- Write the weekly summary: covers, average spend, labour cost percentage and food cost percentageReads and drafts
- Spot the thing that is drifting, labour creeping over target, a dish's margin sliding, a slow night getting slowerReads and drafts
- Decide what to do about itOwner decides
Phone and bookings
Functions and events
Service and shifts
Takings and payroll
Staff and licences
Owner's week
Your venue
Sources for these figures
- ABS small and medium businesses by main state, June 2025
- LexiLive estimate: inbound call, voicemail and enquiry volume
- LexiLive estimate: coverage range for automation tasks
- LexiLive estimate: documents, bills, claims and quotes handled per week
- LexiLive estimate: operational events absorbed in a week
- LexiLive estimate: workplace incidents and near misses a month
- LexiLive estimate: reviews, complaints and messages received per week
- LexiLive estimate: Hospitality: Functions and events
- LexiLive estimate: Hospitality: Service and the shift
- LexiLive estimate: Hospitality: Staff, licences and safety
- LexiLive estimate: Hospitality: Takings, accounts and payroll
- LexiLive estimate: Hospitality: The owner's week
- LexiLive estimate: Hospitality: The phone and the book
- LexiLive estimate: on-cost multiplier for office and clinical roles
- LexiLive estimate: payroll wages proxy
- Work that stays with a person
- LexiLive estimate: productive hours a year
- LexiLive estimate: base salary for front-of-house and admin roles, checked against the Clerks award
- LexiLive estimate: base salary for practice, service and operations management roles
- LexiLive estimate: staff, drivers or credentials reviewed against the roster
- LexiLive estimate: separate systems an owner pulls numbers from
- LexiLive estimate: minutes to complete one occurrence of an administrative task
- LexiLive estimate: financial transactions processed in a period
- Annual leave under the National Employment Standards
- NSW payroll tax, 2026-27
- From mapping this work with people who run a venue, not from a measured Australian dataset.
All inclusive
Fully managed AI transformation
We set Lexi up around how your venue works, and it is kept working by our team. Your price covers setup, integrations, maintenance and Lexi's AI usage. Lexi Memory and Lexi Workspace are included too.

Included in your price
- Custom setup and tool connections
- Ongoing maintenance and support
- Lexi's AI usage
- Lexi Memory
- Lexi Workspace
We connect to the tools you already use

- OP






Get started
Built around your venue. Kept working by our team.
We set it up, tailor it to your way of working and keep it running, so you get the value without the extra workload.
Map the work
We learn how your venue operates and identify the best place for Lexi to help.
Start with one workflow
We set it up, test it together and make sure it's working as expected.
Keep it useful
Our team monitors and refines it, so it continues to deliver for your venue.
See where Lexi could help first
Tell us a bit about your venue and we'll show you where AI can make the biggest difference.
Show me where AI can help my businessLexi does the work. You keep the yes.
Hospitality
More time on the floor, less on the admin.
Lexi prepares the bookings, the shift cover and the takings, and shows you what needs your decision.

Is any of this yours?
What we see in hospitality venues
01Missed calls
The phone goes unanswered during service.
No one can reach the phone
A table enquiry and a late cancellation, both waiting.
Lexi drafts the reply
It checks the live booking and offers the next available times.
You confirm the booking
The duty manager checks the table and the guest before it is sent.
Prepared by Lexi
Booking reply
Ready to check
With the duty manager
Duty manager
Waits for a yes.
A table enquiry and a freed table to offer.
Waiting for youSent to the guest.
02Function enquiries
Function enquiries wait too long for a reply.
The quote is still not built
A date, a party size and a menu question, all in an inbox.
Lexi drafts the quote pack
It matches the date and the party size and lines up the banquet order.
You set the price
The functions coordinator decides the final price before it goes.
Prepared by Lexi
Quote pack
Ready to check
With the functions coordinator
Functions coordinator
Waits for a yes.
The quote is ready. The final price is yours.
Waiting for youQuote sent to the client.
03The roster
The roster is rebuilt by hand every week.
The roster is still a spreadsheet
The bookings are in the system, the shift plan is not.
Lexi prepares the roster
It builds options from the booked covers and who is qualified.
You approve the shift plan
The head chef decides what is safe before it is published.
Prepared by Lexi
Draft roster
Ready to check
With the head chef
Head chef
Waits for a yes.
A short shift. The safe call is yours.
Waiting for youPublished to the team.
04Month end
The takings wait until month end to reconcile.
The numbers do not agree yet
Daily sales, supplier invoices and the bank, all apart.
Lexi prepares the reconciliation
It matches the takings to the bank and the invoices to the deliveries.
You approve the pay run
Nothing is paid until the owner or licensee says yes.
Prepared by Lexi
Takings reconciliation
Ready to check
With the owner or licensee
Owner or licensee
Waits for a yes.
The takings are matched and the invoices checked. The pay run needs your yes.
Waiting for youPay run approved.
Your Lexi workspace
Your week, without the guesswork.
Your week at a glance
Sample Hospitality Co. / Across the business
2 waiting on a person, 2 running, 2 done, 2 did not happen in this sample week.
The week in view
8 work items across the week
Waiting on you
Sample Hospitality Co. / Decisions and the work behind them
The phone and the book / Venue or duty manager, front of house lead
Functions and events / Functions coordinator or venue manager, head chef
On their queue
Venue or duty manager / One person's day
The phone and the book / Venue or duty manager, front of house lead
Waiting on someone else
Venue or duty manager / One person's day
Functions and events / Functions coordinator or venue manager, head chef
Service and the shift / Head chef, kitchen team
Takings, accounts and payroll / Bookkeeper, owner
Finished
Venue or duty manager / One person's day
Staff, licences and safety / Owner or licensee, venue manager
The owner's week / Owner or licensee, venue manager
A working estimate for your venue
What it is worth to you
Pick the work. Watch Lexi do it. See what comes back.
A$58,367 back each year
1,153.7 hours back for other work each year.
A$1,216 and 24.0 hours a weekA$4,864 and 96.1 hours a month
This work costs you A$87,694 a year today.
Potential value of enquiries caught: a year.
The phone and the book
Not counted. Tick it above to count it.
The phone and the book
- Capture table and function enquiries into a draft requestReads and drafts
- Approve the guest booking or function handoverDuty manager decides
- Approve guest confirmation templates and consent rulesDuty manager decides
- Send booking confirmations and reminders and process the repliesAutomation
- Draft the no-show or cancellation follow-upReads and drafts
- Decide the no-show response and any deposit requirementDuty manager decides
- Decide the answer to dietary and allergen questionsDuty manager decides
- Prepare waitlist options for an available tableAutomation
- Approve the guest waitlist offerDuty manager decides
- Build the pass sheet for tonight's bookings with dietary flags, VIPs and large partiesAutomation
- Decide to overbook against no-show history on a Friday or SaturdayDuty manager decides
- Handle the complaint call about a booking that went wrongDuty manager or owner decides
Functions and events
- Draft the function enquiry reply and information packReads and drafts
- Approve and send the function enquiry packFunction coordinator decides
- Draft quote lines and the banquet event orderReads and drafts
- Approve the function price and quoteFunction coordinator decides
- Approve event deposit requests and balance remindersOwner decides
- Chase the deposit and the running balance before the eventAutomation
- Draft the event review request and repliesReads and drafts
- Approve the event feedback contact and review replyOwner decides
- Confirm final numbers, cutoff and dietary requirements and lock the kitchen orderFunctions coordinator decides
- Approve the exact specials, music and availability postsOwner decides
- Post the week's specials, live music and function availability to social and Google Business ProfileAutomation
- Approve function-enquiry reminder templateFunction coordinator decides
- Follow up a function enquiry that has gone quietAutomation
- Negotiate the room hire rate or menu upgrade for a repeat corporate clientOwner or functions coordinator decides
Service and the shift
- Prepare the proposed service rosterAutomation
- Approve and publish the service rosterVenue manager decides
- Prepare qualified shift-cover optionsAutomation
- Approve the shift offer and replacementVenue manager decides
- Take the order and fire it to the kitchenFront of house decides
- Read supplier delivery dockets and check them against the orderReads and drafts
- Prepare a stock purchase proposal from par levelsAutomation
- Approve the stock purchase orderHead chef decides
- Approve the confirmed guest-order routing rulesDuty manager decides
- Route confirmed guest orders to the kitchenAutomation
- Write the shift handover: 86'd items, VIP tables, equipment faults, anything the next shift needs to knowReads and drafts
- Decide to 86 a dish or close the kitchen earlyHead chef decides
Takings, accounts and payroll
- Reconcile the day's POS takings against the bank depositAutomation
- Approve the takings reconciliationOwner decides
- Read supplier invoices and match them to the delivery docket and purchase orderReads and drafts
- Approve corporate debtor and deposit remindersOwner decides
- Chase outstanding function deposits and corporate account balancesAutomation
- Calculate the proposed tip and service-charge splitAutomation
- Approve the tip and service-charge split before paymentVenue manager decides
- Track cost of goods sold and menu item margin weeklyAutomation
- Prepare the BAS and GST draft inputsAutomation
- Review and lodge the hospitality BASRegistered tax or BAS agent decides
- Run payroll under the Hospitality Industry (General) Award including penalty rates and split shifts, and check the exceptionsBookkeeper decides
- Prepare projected labour-cost flags from the proposed rosterAutomation
Staff, licences and safety
- Track RSA, RSA marshal, food safety supervisor and working with children certification for every staff memberAutomation
- Extract staff certificates into a draft recordReads and drafts
- Confirm staff certification and eligibilityVenue manager decides
- Summarise temperature and food-safety checklist exceptionsReads and drafts
- Decide the response to a food-safety exceptionFood safety supervisor decides
- Decide whether an incident, a refusal of service or a patron removal is reportableVenue manager or licensee decides
- Manage the liquor licence: renewal, trading hours and patron capacity conditionsOwner or licensee decides
- Draft the incident register entryReads and drafts
- Review and sign the venue incident entryDuty manager decides
- Collate the evidence pack for a council food safety audit or a licensing inspectionAutomation
- Prepare new-starter paperwork and credential checksAutomation
- Approve the starter classification and signed recordsVenue manager decides
The owner's week
- Pull the numbers together from the POS, rostering, accounting and booking systemsAutomation
- Write the weekly summary: covers, average spend, labour cost percentage and food cost percentageReads and drafts
- Spot the thing that is drifting, labour creeping over target, a dish's margin sliding, a slow night getting slowerReads and drafts
- Decide what to do about itOwner decides
Phone and bookings
Functions and events
Service and shifts
Takings and payroll
Staff and licences
Owner's week
Your venue
Sources for these figures
- ABS small and medium businesses by main state, June 2025
- LexiLive estimate: inbound call, voicemail and enquiry volume
- LexiLive estimate: coverage range for automation tasks
- LexiLive estimate: documents, bills, claims and quotes handled per week
- LexiLive estimate: operational events absorbed in a week
- LexiLive estimate: workplace incidents and near misses a month
- LexiLive estimate: reviews, complaints and messages received per week
- LexiLive estimate: Hospitality: Functions and events
- LexiLive estimate: Hospitality: Service and the shift
- LexiLive estimate: Hospitality: Staff, licences and safety
- LexiLive estimate: Hospitality: Takings, accounts and payroll
- LexiLive estimate: Hospitality: The owner's week
- LexiLive estimate: Hospitality: The phone and the book
- LexiLive estimate: on-cost multiplier for office and clinical roles
- LexiLive estimate: payroll wages proxy
- Work that stays with a person
- LexiLive estimate: productive hours a year
- LexiLive estimate: base salary for front-of-house and admin roles, checked against the Clerks award
- LexiLive estimate: base salary for practice, service and operations management roles
- LexiLive estimate: staff, drivers or credentials reviewed against the roster
- LexiLive estimate: separate systems an owner pulls numbers from
- LexiLive estimate: minutes to complete one occurrence of an administrative task
- LexiLive estimate: financial transactions processed in a period
- Annual leave under the National Employment Standards
- NSW payroll tax, 2026-27
- From mapping this work with people who run a venue, not from a measured Australian dataset.
All inclusive
Fully managed AI transformation
We set Lexi up around how your venue works, and it is kept working by our team. Your price covers setup, integrations, maintenance and Lexi's AI usage. Lexi Memory and Lexi Workspace are included too.

Included in your price
- Custom setup and tool connections
- Ongoing maintenance and support
- Lexi's AI usage
- Lexi Memory
- Lexi Workspace
We connect to the tools you already use

- OP






Get started
Built around your venue. Kept working by our team.
Map the work
We learn how your venue operates and identify the best place for Lexi to help.
Start with one workflow
We set it up, test it together and make sure it's working as expected.
Keep it useful
Our team monitors and refines it, so it continues to deliver for your venue.
See where Lexi could help first
Show me where AI can help my businessLexi does the work. You keep the yes.