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How to ask with this skill installed
Installing the skill gives your AI a method. Your request still has to provide the case-specific facts, constraints and expected output.
1Name the real task
Describe the decision or deliverable, not just the topic.
2Provide the evidence
Add source material, audience, limits and known facts.
3Define done
Set format, quality criteria and checks.
Source example
Replace the brackets with your case
When to use it
- Building a new wine list from scratch
- Adding seasonal wines to an existing list
- Training front-of-house staff on wine selling
- Managing wine inventory and reorder points
- Responding to a guest question about wine and food pairing
- Planning a wine dinner event
- Evaluating a wine list for profitability and guest preferences
Mistakes to avoid
- Having too many wines by the glass open at once — if more than 6-8 wines are open by the glass, quality degrades and waste increases; close the loop on your by-the-glass program every night
- Pricing wine without understanding wholesale cost — if you pay $18 wholesale for a bottle and price it at $48, you're making less margin than the table that orders the $14 wholesale bottle at $52; know your margins, not just your prices
- Not training non-sommelier front-of-house staff to describe wine — in most restaurants, servers are the sommeliers; every server should be able to describe any wine on the list in 30 seconds or less
- Ordering wine speculatively without a plan to sell it — a $200 bottle of wine that sits in the cellar for 18 months ties up capital and may become over-aged; never order wine you can't explain how you'll sell