2 chefs share how generative AI helps them manage menu changes and event logistics on their own Meenu Bhasin (l) and Melanie Underwood each operate their own cooking company, and have found ways to use AI for operational help. Cayce Clifford and Marissa Alper for BI Meenu Bhasin and Melanie Underwood operate solo cooking companies, with some help from AI. They said AI helps them research ingredients, plan events, and develop social strategy. The chefs said AI can't replace the human touch in teaching and tasting. An hour before a recent private cooking class, chef and solopreneur Meenu Bhasin got a message: one of the children attending had a severe egg allergy. Two of her planned recipes required eggs. "They said, if you want to cancel, we understand," Bhasin told Business Insider. "But I'm not going to do that." With no staff to help her, she opened ChatGPT, typed in every ingredient she had on hand, and asked it to come up with two simple, egg-free recipes for young children. "It delivered," she said.…