AI Answering Service for Restaurants — Orders, Reservations & Questions, 24/7
The phone rings hardest exactly when your staff can least answer it — mid-rush, hands full, line out the door. Every unanswered call is an order that goes to the restaurant down the street. SaveMyCalls gives your restaurant an AI host that picks up every call, every time.
SaveMyCalls answers your restaurant’s phone 24/7 with a natural-sounding AI host. It takes pickup orders item by item, handles reservation requests, answers menu, hours, and dietary questions from your actual menu, and captures catering leads — in English and Spanish. Every order and enquiry is delivered to your team instantly. Plans start at $99/mo with a free one-week trial.
Restaurant phone traffic is brutally concentrated: a third of the day’s calls can land in the ninety minutes when every staff member is slammed. The caller asking about gluten-free options or trying to place a $60 family order doesn’t wait through six rings — they order somewhere else. And after close, the phone just rings into nothing while tomorrow’s catering enquiry moves on.
What it handles for a restaurant
- Pickup orders — item by item from your real menu, confirming each, totaling with tax, and quoting your pickup window
- Menu and dietary questions — vegetarian options, allergens, spice levels — answered from your menu, with cross-contact caveats you approve
- Reservation requests — captures party size, date, and time preferences for your team to confirm
- Catering and large-group leads — name, date, headcount captured and flagged for a manager callback
- Hours, location, parking, and ‘are you open today?’ — answered instantly, zero staff time
- Spanish-speaking callers — the full call handled naturally in Spanish
Every question becomes data you can use
Beyond answering, the system tells you what your callers actually ask — which dishes confuse people, which dietary questions repeat, how many callers wanted delivery. It’s voice-of-customer insight no POS captures, and it flows to your team however you work: your POS ecosystem’s CRM, Toast or Square workflows, OpenTable notes, a simple email digest — or whatever else you’re already using.
Pricing that costs less than one missed dinner order a week
For solo operators who just need their phone lines answered.
- ✓250 live answered minutes included
- ✓Then just $0.35/min — pay only for real calls
- ✓Instant email call summaries & dashboard logging
- ✓Free 1-week trial · cancel anytime
For growing teams who want full text automation and faster payouts.
- ✓500 live answered minutes included (double the minutes)
- ✓Then just $0.35/min — pay only for real calls
- ✓Instant SMS job summaries sent to your mobile phone
- ✓Automated text-to-pay invoicing links & arrival reminders
- ✓Free 1-week trial · cancel anytime
For teams ready to book appointments on the call — straight into their calendar and CRM.
- ✓Everything in Growth, plus:
- ✓Books & schedules appointments live, right on the phone
- ✓Orders & reservations flow into Toast, Square, OpenTable — or whatever else you’re using
- ✓Writes appointments to Google Calendar automatically
- ✓750 live answered minutes included, then $0.35/min
- ✓Free 1-week trial · cancel anytime
Every plan starts with a free one-week trial on your existing number. Your menu changes seasonally? The agent’s knowledge updates the same day.
Hear it on your own menu
Request a demo below and we’ll set up an agent trained on your actual menu — then call it yourself and try to stump it. If it can handle your rush, it pays for itself the first week.
Hear it answer your calls.
We'll set up a demo agent trained on your business — then you call it yourself and try to stump it. Free, no commitment.
Frequently asked questions
Can it really take a full phone order?
Yes — item by item from your actual menu, confirming quantities and options, totaling with tax, and quoting your pickup window. Payment stays at pickup or through your existing online ordering; the AI never takes card numbers over the phone.
What about callers with allergies?
It answers from your menu’s allergen information and always includes the shared-kitchen cross-contact caveat you approve. It never guarantees allergen-free — the same discipline you’d demand from staff.
Does it handle Spanish?
Yes, natively — the agent detects Spanish and handles the entire call in Spanish, including complete orders. Additional languages can be configured.
How do orders reach my kitchen?
Instantly, the way your team already works — printed ticket workflows via your POS ecosystem, text, email, or pushed into Toast, Square, OpenTable, or whatever else you’re already using, through standard integrations set up during onboarding.
What does it cost?
Baseline is $99/mo for 250 minutes (then $0.35/min); Growth is $149/mo for 500 minutes plus SMS order confirmations; Scale is $199/mo for 750 minutes with live appointment booking straight into your calendar and CRM. Free one-week trial, and you keep your current number.
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