AI for restaurants
Your team should be looking after guests, not answering the phone.
Bookings, the same five questions, reviews, supplier invoices and rotas eat hours every week. We find which of them AI can take off your plate, and train your team to use it.
- Independent restaurants, cafés and small groups
- Office day booked around service
- £600 to get your team started
Where AI helps
Six places restaurants lose hours every week.
These are the tasks we usually look at on an office day. Some only need a training day. Others are worth a custom tool.
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Custom tool
Phone bookings during service
- The problem
- The phone rings through the lunch rush with bookings and questions about parking, dogs and gluten-free options.
- How AI helps
- An AI receptionist answers every call, takes bookings into your booking system and passes large parties or complaints to a person.
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Training day
Replying to reviews
- The problem
- Reviews pile up unanswered, or get answered at midnight after a long shift.
- How AI helps
- Replies drafted in your voice for a manager to read, tweak and post in a couple of minutes.
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Training day
Menu changes
- The problem
- Every new dish means rewriting descriptions for the menu, the website and the delivery apps.
- How AI helps
- Descriptions drafted from the recipe card, in your style, ready for the chef to check.
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Custom tool
Supplier invoices
- The problem
- Checking invoices against delivery notes is tedious, so price creep and missing items slip through.
- How AI helps
- Invoices read automatically, with price changes and short deliveries flagged for you to query.
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Training day
Rotas and cover
- The problem
- The rota takes an afternoon, then swaps get sorted on group chats at 11pm.
- How AI helps
- A first-draft rota built from availability and expected covers, for the manager to approve.
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Custom tool
Private dining and event enquiries
- The problem
- Large-party enquiries sit in the inbox for two days, and the customer books somewhere else.
- How AI helps
- Same-day replies with menus, availability and deposit details, followed up if they go quiet.
Do the maths
One job, counted in hours.
25 booking and enquiry calls a day times 3 minutes each times 7 days open equals 8¾ hours a week on the phone.
Much of that lands in the middle of service, when it costs the most.
This is a worked example to show the scale, not a promise. On the office day we measure your real numbers.
What stays human
Some things AI shouldn’t touch in restaurants.
- Allergen information. AI can draft it. A trained person checks every dish, every time.
- Hospitality. Nobody comes back because of a well-written email. They come back because of your team.
- Complaints and difficult guests. AI can flag them fast, but a manager handles them.
If AI isn’t the right fix for your business, we’ll tell you in the free audit.
How it works
Four steps, with the prices up front.
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Free audit
How your business runs, who does what, which software you use, and how much AI you use already.
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Office day
We watch 3 time-consuming tasks being done, take notes and record.
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Training day
Your team learns to use AI on the exact tasks we saw, so it’s useful from day one.
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Custom AI tools
Where a task needs more than training, we set up the tool and train your team on it.
Free 1-hour audit
Find out where your week is going.
Tell us four things and we’ll email you to find an hour that suits. You’ll come away knowing where AI could save your team time, and where it couldn’t. Free, and no obligation.
No phone number needed.