Restaurants lose up to 30% of calls during service. An AI voice agent takes reservations, answers menu questions, and handles catering enquiries 24/7 — so your staff can focus on the dining room.
A busy restaurant can receive 80–150 calls a day. During lunch and dinner service, most go unanswered or land in voicemail. 70% of callers don't leave a message — they call someone else.
Front-of-house staff can't answer the phone while seating guests, taking orders, or handling payments. Calls pile up during your busiest hours.
When callers hit voicemail, most hang up immediately and book elsewhere. Those missed reservations don't come back.
Hours, parking, menu items, allergens, reservation changes — the same questions, every day. AI handles all of them without tying up your team.
Built for the specific workflows of restaurants — not a generic call centre bot.
Takes bookings in real time, checks availability in your system, handles party sizes and special requests, sends confirmation SMS. Integrates with OpenTable, Resy, SevenRooms, and custom systems.
Trained on your full menu. Accurately answers gluten, nut, dairy, and other allergen queries. Flags serious allergy concerns for staff follow-up — keeping you covered.
Quotes current wait times, adds callers to the waitlist, and sends an automated call or SMS when their table is ready. Reduces walk-ins that leave without being seated.
Collects event details (date, party size, budget, occasion), qualifies the enquiry, and creates a lead record for your events team to follow up. No more enquiries lost to voicemail.
Answers the questions your staff answer fifty times a week. Opening times, address, nearest tube or parking — handled instantly, 24/7, without tying up a team member.
For restaurants taking phone orders, the agent walks callers through the menu, confirms their order, quotes a collection or delivery time, and passes the ticket to your kitchen system.
Restaurants run on tight margins. Here's a conservative ROI breakdown for a mid-size restaurant taking 80 calls per day.
See What This Looks Like For YouWe integrate with the tools restaurants already use. No ripping and replacing.
If your system has an API or webhook, we can connect it. We'll assess your tech stack on the discovery call.
We move fast. Your agent is live before your next busy weekend.
We learn your workflows, booking system, and the calls you get most. We define exactly what the agent needs to handle and what to escalate to staff.
We build the agent, train it on your menu and policies, connect it to your booking system, and test it against real call scenarios before anything goes live.
Your existing phone number routes to the agent. We monitor the first week closely, tune responses based on real calls, and hand over full control to you.
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Restaurant AI voice agents start at $5,000 for a 6-day MVP. This covers discovery, design, development, integration with your booking system, and deployment. Ongoing API costs are typically $100–300/month depending on call volume. Most restaurants recover the build cost within 3 months through reduced staff time and recovered missed reservations.
Yes. We integrate with OpenTable, Resy, SevenRooms, and custom booking systems. The agent checks real-time availability, quotes wait times, takes party size and special requests, confirms the booking, and sends a confirmation SMS or email — without any staff involvement.
We train the agent on your full menu including all ingredients and known allergens. It accurately handles common questions about gluten, nuts, dairy, shellfish, and other allergens. For serious allergies or complex queries, we configure the agent to flag the caller for a human staff member to follow up — keeping your liability exposure appropriate. We work with you to define exactly where that handoff point is.
The agent uses natural, conversational voice — most callers don't notice the difference for standard queries. We recommend being transparent: a short intro like "Hi, this is [Restaurant Name]'s AI assistant — I can take reservations or answer questions" sets clear expectations without causing friction. Callers who want to speak to a human can always be transferred.
No. We set up call forwarding from your existing number to the AI agent. Your Google listing, website, and marketing materials all stay the same. If you want, we can also run the agent on a secondary number for specific use cases (like a catering-only line).
A 30-minute discovery call is all it takes to see whether an AI voice agent is the right fit for your restaurant. No hard sell. Just a clear picture of what's possible and what it costs.
Book a Free ConsultationNo commitment required. Results in 6 days if you proceed.
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