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I've been looking at the difference between using EZCater and using an AI catering sales agent.

EZCater can bring you catering demand that's already looking for a restaurant, but you're giving up a percentage of the order for that marketplace.

The AI sales-agent approach is pretty different. It can find businesses around your restaurant, identify the right contact, reach out, have the conversation, send quotes, follow up, and help close the order.

So one is paying for access to existing demand, while the other is trying to build a direct pipeline of catering customers.

The interesting part to me is the long-term relationship. With direct accounts, the restaurant owns the customer relationship and can follow up for the next order instead of paying a marketplace for every transaction.

A friend of mine recently started using an AI catering sales agent for his restaurant.

Apparently it can find potential business contacts, reach out to them, have the conversation, send quotes and invoices, follow up, and actually close the catering order.

I'm genuinely curious how well AI handles the messy parts of catering sales though. Not just sending the first message, but the back-and-forth, custom requests, pricing conversations, and knowing when to follow up.

Feels either ridiculously useful or like something that will break the moment a real customer says something unexpected lol.

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Hi all,

I've put together a dataset of 1,500+ paired before/after images capturing object deformation — dents, crushing, and structural damage across a range of real-life objects . Each pair shows the same object in original condition and after deformation, shot with consistent lighting/background.

I can also shoot additional images to match specific object types or requirements if needed.

Happy to share more detail on composition, format, and annotation status. Open to selling the full set or licensing it — DM me if you're interested or have questions.