Free weekly classes · platform opening soon

Where café & restaurant owners learn to leverage AI, together.

Deep Fried Bananas is a platform where café, coffee, and fast casual restaurant owners learn to use AI to make more money with less chaos, in plain English. No jargon, no $10K/month consultants. It's launching soon. For now, we're meeting live every week, and you're invited to the next one.

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The next free class

Is your café menu losing you money?

Come find out, live. Each week I run one online class on a real way to use AI in your café or restaurant, and you're welcome at it, no strings. Here's the next one:

Next class
Wed,
Jun 3
2026 · live online
This week we're covering
The menu audit: sell more of your most profitable items

This Wednesday, I'll walk you through a real café/restaurant menu audit, live. I'll show you how to use AI to find what's quietly losing you money, and redesign your menu to sell more of what's winning. (By the way, restaurant consultants usually charge $500–1,500 per page for a menu audit!)

We promise not to upsell you anything. The platform isn't even live yet ;)

New class every week. Come to the ones that matter to you, skip the rest. No homework, no follow-ups, no "consider upgrading." Get on the list once and you'll get the link to every class.

Before you scroll further

Here's what this isn't.

A corporate F&B consultancy
No $10K/month retainers. No slide decks. No "we'll get back to you next quarter."
A SaaS company
No login wall. No "starting at $49/month." No 14-day free trial that auto-renews.
An AI guru with a $997 course
No "I made $40K last month using ChatGPT." No webinar. No countdown timer.
What it actually is

A few of us figuring this out together, in real time.

Real café and restaurant owners, real places, learning how to use AI to make our businesses more money, more profit, less chaos. We're not pretending to have it figured out. We're sharing as we go, and getting better at this while the whole landscape changes under our feet.

Who shows up

Built for owners who actually run the place.

Not big chains. Not VC-funded ghost kitchens. Real owners of one to five locations, who do the work themselves, and who don't have $50K to spend on a consultant.

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Smoothie & açaí shops

You sell smoothies, bowls, juice. You've got 1-3 locations. You're thinking about menu redesign, brand refresh, or maybe franchising someday.

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Cafes & boba tea

Specialty coffee, bubble tea, matcha bars. You've nailed product. The hard part is marketing, ops, financials, and the stuff nobody trained you for.

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Fast casual

Bowls, burritos, salads, sandwiches, pizza-by-the-slice. Speed and brand matter equally. You want to grow without losing what made you good.

Where this is going

The calls are free. The platform won't be.

join the waitlist now, come to the free meets while you wait

Self-serve
$250/mo
For owners who want to move at their own pace.
  • The full platform + video library
  • Every workflow, on your own time
  • All future recordings
No founder time
most popular
Group
$500/mo
For owners who want to do it alongside a small group.
  • Everything in self-serve
  • Group facilitation (~6 people)
  • Chat support + workdays
Founder access: chat
1-on-1
$1,000/mo
For owners who want it done with them, in their own place.
  • Everything in group
  • Personal, facilitated implementation
  • Direct, dedicated founder time
Founder access: direct
What we cover on the calls

9 weeks. 9 workflows you can steal.

Every call gets recorded and goes in the library. Join the waitlist now and come to the live calls while you wait. By the time the platform opens, you'll already know your way around.

wk 1
Mon · Jun 1 · 10am ET
logo refresh art

Logo refresh without losing the soul.

Take an old logo and bring it into 2026, making sure it still works on the awning, the menu, a coffee cup, a hat, the Instagram grid. The kind of refresh a brand agency charges $5K+ to do.

wk 2
Wed · Jun 3 · 2pm ET
menu redesign art

Menu redesign, live.

Redesign a menu together: the look AND the math. Cleaning up the design, killing items that don't sell, repricing the ones doing the heavy lifting. (By the way, consultants usually charge $500–1,500 per page for this, and usually skip the margin part.)

wk 3
Fri · Jun 5 · 12pm ET
brand mockup art

Apply your brand to actual stuff.

Take a logo and brand colors and mock them up on a coffee bag, takeout bag, t-shirt, coffee cup, mug. Live. So you can see your place before you spend a dollar on the stuff.

wk 4
Mon · Jun 8 · 10am ET
storefront art

Storefront, refreshed for $0–$500.

Take a tired-looking storefront (the sidewalk sign, the window, the awning, the first 10 feet a customer sees) and mock up what a small-budget refresh would actually look like. Without hiring a designer or three weekends of guessing.

wk 5
Wed · Jun 10 · 2pm ET
merch art

Order merch you'd actually wear.

Take last week's brand designs and order them for real. Print-on-demand for hats, mugs, totes, shirts. No minimums, no inventory, no upfront cost. Live, on a real site, in 30 minutes.

wk 6
Fri · Jun 12 · 12pm ET
reviews art

Get more Google reviews (it's #1).

Google reviews are the single biggest reason new customers find your café. Most owners have 12. They should have 200. Build the system (QR card, follow-up text, the exact wording) so loyal customers can support you for free in 30 seconds.

wk 7
Mon · Jun 15 · 10am ET
loyalty art

Loyalty card redesign.

Most punch cards look like they came from a 1998 print shop. We'll design one that actually matches your brand, and works as a QR code so customers can't lose it. The kind of small thing that turns regulars into evangelists.

wk 8
Wed · Jun 17 · 2pm ET
facebook art

Facebook page, fixed.

Most owners' Facebook pages haven't been touched since 2019. Redo the banner, refresh the bio, fix the hours, set up the auto-reply. The page customers actually find when they Google your café.

wk 9
Fri · Jun 19 · 12pm ET
instagram art

Instagram grid that doesn't look like everyone else's.

Plan a month of Instagram posts in one sitting, using AI for captions, scheduling them out, and making sure your grid looks like YOUR place. Not a stock-template smoothie account. The kind of work a content agency charges $1,500/month to do badly.

more dates comingNew topics every week. Get on the list once, get all of them.

The platform's not open yet

So get on the list.

The calls are happening right now, every week, free. The full platform opens soon, and the people who've been showing up to the meets get first access.

Join the waitlist, come to a few calls, and you'll be first in line, and already know whether it's for you, when the doors open.

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Who's behind this

Hey. I'm Seth. I've been working with café and restaurant owners for years, helping them figure out the stuff that normally costs $30K-$50K in consultancy fees. Brand standards. Operations manuals. Financial models. Franchise prep.

About eight months ago I started using AI tools to do that work in hours instead of weeks. The results were better. The cost was lower. The whole thing felt like a glitch in the system.

So I'm doing this. Free weekly classes, with owners who want to see what's possible. Come to the meets, get on the waitlist, and use the platform with me when it opens.

If it sounds like your kind of thing, come hang out.

– Seth