An AI receptionist for restaurants — built for the phone that rings during the dinner rush
Anna answers your restaurant line 24/7, takes reservations and to-go requests, and texts you the details. $99/month, $0 setup, live by tonight.
Every restaurant owner knows the sound: the phone ringing at 7pm on a Friday while every table is seated, the kitchen is slammed, and the one person who could answer it is carrying four plates. So it rings out. On the other end is a party of six looking to book a table, a regular calling in a pickup order, or someone asking about catering for forty — and when nobody picks up, they don't leave a voicemail. They call the place down the street. Those restaurant missed calls are real covers and real tickets that walked, and they happen at exactly the hours you can least afford to stop and grab the phone.
The usual fixes don't fit a restaurant. Answering it yourself means stepping off the line or out of the dining room every time the phone rings. A traditional answering service bills by the minute, reads from a script that doesn't know your hours, your menu, or whether you even take reservations — and still just takes a message someone has to call back. Voicemail is free, and a caller with a hungry table isn't going to use it.
Anna is different because she's built around your restaurant. At onboarding you tell us — and we'll use your website as a reference — your hours, whether you take reservations, your service area for delivery or catering, and how you want to hear about each call. Then she answers the way a sharp host would: greets the caller, takes the reservation and puts it on your calendar, takes a to-go or catering request and texts it straight to the owner, and answers the everyday questions about hours and location so they never pull you off the floor. She tells every caller she's an AI, and she does it during the Saturday rush for the same flat monthly price as a quiet Monday.
You keep your number and your carrier. You just forward your line — always, when busy, or after hours, your choice — and turn it off anytime by dialing a code. And when your hours change for a holiday or you add a new special, just call Anna and tell her — she updates on the spot.
Don't take our word for it — call her and order like a customer would
📞 Call Anna's live demo(859) 780-5275Ask to book a table for six on Friday. Ask if you can call in a pickup order. Ask about catering. She's not scripted, and this is the same Anna you'd get.
She can take the whole order, too — hear it
On the standard $99/mo plan, Anna answers, takes reservations and to-go or catering requests, and texts the owner the details. Add the online-ordering ability (Abilities start at $79/mo) and she can take the full order over the phone, send the customer a confirmation text, and — through Square — a payment link to pay before pickup.
We didn't just build the slide. There's a live, working order-to-text setup we built for a Chinese restaurant, where phone and text orders arrive to the owner as clean, readable tickets — ask to see it. And on our homepage you can hear a recorded restaurant demo where Anna, with the add-ons on, takes a 20-plate catering order start to finish — the reservation, the confirmation, and the payment link — all on one call.
How it works
Call the demo — (859) 780-5275. Two minutes, no signup.
Start your free trial and tell us how your restaurant runs — hours, reservations, how you want orders sent. About 5 minutes.
Anna's answering your line tonight. We build her, buy her number in your area code, and email you the forwarding code.
Pricing that survives a Friday rush
Anna is $99/month flat — 300 minutes fair-use, roughly 100–150 answered calls — with reservations, message-taking, transfers, and text summaries included. Add-on abilities from $79/mo each, including online ordering, missed-call text-back, review requests, and instant web-lead reply. Want it fully managed? Front Office starts at $299/mo. $0 setup, 14-day free trial with no card required, no long-term contract, cancel online in one click. If you're trending past your bundle, we contact you first — you will never open a surprise invoice from us.
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Restaurant owners ask us
Can Anna take reservations?
Yes. She takes the party size, name, date, and time, books it on your calendar, and texts you the details right after the call. If you don't take reservations, we set her up to say so and offer whatever you do instead — a waitlist note, a call-back, or pickup.
Can she take to-go and catering orders?
On the standard plan she takes the request and texts it straight to the owner so nothing gets lost during service. Add the online-ordering ability and she can take the full order on the phone, send the customer a confirmation text, and send a Square payment link so they can pay before pickup.
Is there proof this actually works for restaurants?
Yes. We built a live, working order-to-text setup for a Chinese restaurant where orders arrive to the owner as clean texts — ask to see it. And you can hear a recorded restaurant demo on our homepage where Anna takes a 20-plate catering order, confirmation and payment link included.
What happens when the phone rings during the rush?
That's the whole point — you keep cooking and seating while Anna answers. You keep your number and carrier and just forward the line; reservations and order details arrive as ordinary texts and emails, and anything you flag as urgent can transfer to your cell by your rules.
Does Anna speak Spanish?
Yes — bilingual English/Spanish answering is available as an add-on ability.
Will callers know they're talking to an AI?
Yes. Anna discloses that she's an AI on every call. She's built to be clear and helpful, not to pretend to be a person.
$0 setup · 14-day free trial · no long-term contract · cancel online in one click · founder-built
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