diff --git a/examples/server/server.cpp b/examples/server/server.cpp
index b3773d256..39cc3c6f8 100644
--- a/examples/server/server.cpp
+++ b/examples/server/server.cpp
@@ -1778,6 +1778,9 @@ struct server_context {
                     }
                     slot->cache_tokens.resize(token_count);
 
+                    // TODO: maybe detokenize the slot->cache_tokens instead?
+                    slot->prompt = string_format("[restored %d tokens from file]", (int) token_count);
+
                     const int64_t t_end = ggml_time_us();
                     const double t_restore_ms = (t_end - t_start) / 1000.0;