AI receptionist for restaurants
Mid-service, nobody can get to the phone, and an unanswered call can be a table booked somewhere else. Your AI receptionist answers the calls you miss in your restaurant’s name, answers questions about the menu and dietary needs from your own information, and books tables into your diary.
How it works for restaurants
Tables booked while you serve
With online bookings on, it offers real free times, reads the booking back and books the table, with a confirmation and a reminder sent in your restaurant’s name.
Menu questions answered
Do you have vegan dishes? Is there parking? Can we bring the dog? It answers from your website, menus and notes, and takes a message when the answer isn’t there.
Allergies taken seriously
It never guesses about ingredients or allergens. If you’ve given it your allergen information it can share that, and otherwise it takes a message so your team can answer properly.
Every call summarised
After service, read a summary of each call it handled: who rang, what they wanted and whether it booked a table or took a message, with bookings already in your diary.
Dinner for 2
A Friday night at Brindlewood Kitchen
Friday service calls answered, and tables booked
Friday nights at Brindlewood Kitchen leave nobody free to answer the phone between seven and ten. With the receptionist taking the calls they missed, the bookings kept coming. It booked tables for the following week, answered questions about the vegetarian menu and parking, and took a message from a customer planning a birthday for twenty. Rachel read the summaries after close, called the birthday party back the next morning, and found the week’s tables already in the diary.
An illustration of how it works, not a real customer.
The film
How the AI Receptionist, LocalQuiver's fifth AI agent, answers the calls you miss and your website chat in your business's name, how missed callers get a text back from your business number, and how customers book themselves into one diary. It works the same way for restaurants.
Read the transcript
0:02When you're on a job, the phone still rings. And every call you miss could be a customer who rings someone else.
0:09So meet the AI Receptionist, the fifth AI agent in LocalQuiver.
0:14Your phone rings first. When you can't pick up, it answers in your business's name, and says it's an AI assistant.
0:21It answers questions from your website and documents, then books the visit into your diary, or takes a proper message.
0:27And you get a short summary of every call it handled.
0:31The same receptionist chats on your website, answering questions and booking appointments in writing, day or night.
0:38With missed-call text back, every caller you miss gets a text from your business number, straight away, in your words.
0:45Their replies land in one place, and you answer from the app when you're free.
0:49And with online bookings, customers book themselves into times that are genuinely free, from your website or your booking link.
0:56Confirmations and reminders go out for you, and every booking lands in one diary, so nothing can clash.
1:03Every call answered. Every booking taken. Even when you're on a job.
1:09LocalQuiver. Your marketing, sorted.
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What's included
- Answers the calls you miss during service
- Books tables into your diary with online bookings
- Answers from your website, menus and notes
- Never guesses about allergens
- Takes messages for large parties and events
- A summary of each call after service
More for restaurants
That’s up to you. Set up the table sizes you take online, and it books those into free times. For bigger groups or events, it takes a message with the details and a number so you can call back and plan it properly.
Only from the information you’ve given it, and it’s told never to guess. Add your allergen notes or menus as documents and it can share them; if a question isn’t covered, it takes a message for your team to answer.
Yes. Set it to the calls you miss and your phone rings first. If a caller asks for a person, it can put them through to the number you choose, or take a message when nobody is free.
AI receptionist
Book a free chat and we'll show you how it would work for your restaurant, set up and running for you.
