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name: al-222-reprice-your-menu-item-by-item-with-separate-in-store-and
description: "Raising prices across a whole menu or product list takes days of comparing costs, what sells and what competitors charge. Give an AI assistant your current prices and your target, and have it suggest item-level changes you then check. In an Oct 20, 2026 OpenAI case study, Ted Taylor, who runs three Schlotzsky's and Cinnabon restaurants in New Mexico, cut his yearly repricing from about 5 days to 1-2 hours with ChatGPT Work, which also caught increases that would have made some items uncompetitive. Use when the user wants help with menu and price updates (business strategy) for a small business."
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# Reprice your menu item by item, with separate in-store and delivery prices

Raising prices across a whole menu or product list takes days of comparing costs, what sells and what competitors charge. Give an AI assistant your current prices and your target, and have it suggest item-level changes you then check. In an Oct 20, 2026 OpenAI case study, Ted Taylor, who runs three Schlotzsky's and Cinnabon restaurants in New Mexico, cut his yearly repricing from about 5 days to 1-2 hours with ChatGPT Work, which also caught increases that would have made some items uncompetitive.

## Inputs to collect first
Ask the user for anything below that they haven't already given you. Don't guess missing facts.

- Business name
- City
- Items, e.g. kids' meals, coffee
- 2-4 nearby competitors
- Target food cost %
- Your own material (text, notes or data)

## Instructions

Do the task below with the user's inputs in place of each [bracket].

Help me reprice my menu at [business name] in [city]. Here's my current menu with categories, in-store prices and delivery-app prices: [paste or attach]. Optional extras: sales per item for the last [3-12] months [paste], and ingredient or supplier costs [paste]. My goal: raise overall prices by about [X]% in-store and [Y]% on delivery, keep [list items, e.g. kids' meals, coffee] as low as possible, and stay competitive with [2-4 nearby competitors] (look up their current published prices if you can, and link where you found them). Give me a table: item, current in-store, new in-store, current delivery, new delivery, change %, and a one-line reason. Flag any item where the new price would be clearly above competitors, and any item whose cost is above [target food cost %]. Then summarize the expected overall increase. These are suggestions for me to review, not final prices.

## Safety checks (share these with the user)

- Check every figure, price and total against your own records before anything is sent, posted or booked. A person approves refunds, discounts, payments and price changes.
- Check names, dates, numbers and any claim against your own source material before you use the answer. AI can misread or invent details.
- Say clearly which parts need a person to review or approve before anything is sent, paid, posted or filed.

## About this skill

- Works with: ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google Sheets, Excel
- Based on this real-world example: https://openai.com/index/ted-taylor-restaurant
- Free prompt from AgentPlaybook Real Estate: https://agentic-library.netlify.app/prompt/al-222-reprice-your-menu-item-by-item-with-separate-in-store-and-de/
- To install in an agent that supports Agent Skills, save this file as SKILL.md in a folder with the same name as `name` above (for example in your skills directory). Install steps for Claude.ai, Claude Code, Cursor and Codex: https://agentic-library.netlify.app/skills/