Connectors
Connect Claude to your restaurant group
Last reviewed November 3, 2026
1. What you get
Excellent works inside Claude. Connect it and you can ask, in plain words, about your group’s own events, inquiries, rooms, invoices and staff schedule, and have Claude put the paperwork in front of you: a reply to an inquiry, an invoice, a proposal, a pre-shift note, a thank-you card. It does the legwork. You decide.
There are two ways in. The free server needs no account and answers how Excellent works. The signed-in connector is your own group’s live data, behind your own login and your own role. Everything on this page is a thing Claude can do today.
2. Start free, with no account
The free server lives at https://beexcellent.ai/api/mcp/public. In Claude, add it as a custom connector with no sign-in. It answers from Excellent’s own help text and finds Excellent’s published pages. It reads no restaurant group’s data, and it allows 60 requests a minute per address. It can also start a free sample workspace (a fictional group with two venues) and hand back a one-time link to claim it. And a guest’s own assistant can find a venue that chose to accept inquiries from AI assistants and send it a private-event inquiry, which lands in that venue’s Leads inbox for its team to answer; each inquiry form has that switch, off until you turn it on.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
How Excellent worksexcellent_help | Excellent's own help text (the passages its in-app assistant answers from): how to do a task in Excellent — proposals, e-signed contracts, deposits and invoices, banquet event orders, floor plans, menus, staff training (Craft), marketing drafts, connecting an AI assistant. Returns up to 3 passages, best match first, each with the in-app page it starts on. No account needed; it reads no restaurant group's data. |
Search Excellent's public pagessearch_excellent_pages | Search Excellent's published pages: feature pages (what each part of the product does), comparison pages (Excellent vs another events or private-dining platform, with where each one wins and the date the comparison was last reviewed), the blog, and guides (how to connect Claude, with 15 things to ask it). Returns up to 5 pages with their URL and the page's own summary text. No account needed. |
3. Connect your group
The signed-in connector lives at https://beexcellent.ai/api/mcp and uses OAuth: no key or password is pasted anywhere. You need an Excellent account on your group’s team. Anyone on the team can connect Claude for themselves; it acts as them.
- Open Connectors in Claude. In Claude, open Settings and choose Connectors.
- Find Excellent and choose Connect. Excellent is in Claude's connectors directory. If you would rather add it by hand, add a custom connector with the server URL https://beexcellent.ai/api/mcp.
- Sign in to Excellent and approve. Claude sends you to Excellent. Sign in with the account your group invited, choose what the connection may do, and choose Approve. Read access is always included; drafts and undoable changes are yours to tick or leave off.
- Check where Approve sends you. The approval card names the site it returns you to. For Claude that is claude.ai; if it names a site you did not just come from, choose Cancel.
- Ask. Back in Claude, ask about your own events, inquiries, rooms or invoices. Claude acts as you, with your role, and can do only what you can do in Excellent.
Three rungs of access. Read answers questions from your data. Draft also stages work for review. Change also makes everyday changes you can undo. Read is always included; you tick the other two on the approval screen. Your role then decides the rest, on every call.
4. What Claude will and won’t do
- Drafts wait for you. Every draft goes into a review queue in Excellent and comes back with a review link. The link opens only for you, signed in. Claude can pass it along but can never use it to approve, send or publish anything.
- Changes ask first, and undo. With change access, each change is recorded in your name and comes back with a
change_id. Ask Claude to undo it and things go back as they were, for 30 days, as long as nothing has changed since. - It never sends, publishes, charges or deletes. No email or text goes to a guest or your staff from Claude, no post is published, no card is charged and nothing is deleted. A person on your team does those, in Excellent.
- It stays in your group. Each connection sees one organization and can do only what its person can do. Leave the team and the connection ends.
The full detail, including every tool and troubleshooting, is on the connector reference.
5. The Claude plugin
If you use Claude Code or Cowork, the Excellent plugin adds the connector plus ready-made workflows: answer an inquiry, book from it, the Monday look at the week, tomorrow’s pre-shift note, invoicing an event, thank-you cards. In Claude Code, run:
/plugin marketplace add ethicalfrei/excellent-claude-plugin
/plugin install excellent@excellentThen run /mcp and sign in to Excellent when asked.
6. 15 things to ask
Fifteen things a GM or events manager can ask once Excellent is connected. Each is answered by the tool shown, and the Access column says whether it reads, drafts a thing for your review, or changes something you can undo. The last two are free and need no account.
| Ask Claude | Tool | Access | What comes back |
|---|---|---|---|
| “What's on across all our locations for the next seven days, and which holds lapse before Friday?” | agenda | Reads | Bookings by venue day, live holds and what is still owed. |
| “Which new inquiries haven't been answered yet, and what dates and party sizes are they asking about?” | list_leads | Reads | Every inquiry with its contact, status, requested date and party size. |
| “Draft a reply to the Garcia inquiry offering the Garden Room on the 14th.” | draft_lead_reply | Drafts | Lands as a draft on the inquiry; you read it, edit it and send it from Excellent. |
| “Is the Garden Room free next Saturday evening for 60 people?” | space_availability | Reads | Each room's bookings, holds, blocks and free stretches, and whether 60 fits. |
| “Pull up the Adler gala: who's hosting, what's on the menu, and what's still owed?” | get_event | Reads | One event in full: contacts, rooms, the menu its documents state, documents and balance. |
| “How are we pacing against this year's events revenue goal, and which location is behind?” | report | Reads | Booked, collected and outstanding revenue, pace against last period and the per-location rollup. |
| “Draft the invoice for the Patel dinner: two hundred dollars of AV and the bar package.” | draft_invoice | Drafts | Excellent works out the lines, total and deposit; the draft waits for your review. |
| “Write a proposal for the Okafor rehearsal dinner.” | draft_event_document | Drafts | Written from the event's facts and priced from your venue's own menus, as a draft with a review link. |
| “Convert Lena's inquiry into an event.” | convert_lead_to_event | Changes (undoable) | A change: it comes back with a change_id, and you can undo it for 30 days. |
| “Put a hold on the wine room for Friday at 7 for the Brennan party.” | place_hold | Changes (undoable) | A change: refused over a confirmed booking or a block, and undoable for 30 days. |
| “Draft thank-you cards for last Saturday's events.” | draft_thank_you_card | Drafts | One draft per event; you review and publish each from its event page. |
| “Write tomorrow's pre-shift note: the two specials and the 40-top at seven.” | draft_preshift_note | Drafts | Lands as a draft your staff cannot see until you publish it. |
| “Assign the wine course to the new servers, due in two weeks.” | assign_course | Changes (undoable) | A change: one team member per call, each undoable for 30 days. |
| “How does Excellent handle deposit schedules for private events?” | excellent_help | Free · reads | Free, no sign-in: answers from Excellent's own help text. |
| “Show me Excellent's page on banquet event orders.” | search_excellent_pages | Free · reads | Free, no sign-in: finds Excellent's published feature pages and guides. |
7. More
- Connector reference: every tool, access levels and troubleshooting.
- What Excellent does: events, payments, menus, reports and more.
- Security and Privacy.
- Questions: support@beexcellent.ai.