AI for restaurants
AI for Restaurants: Phone Orders and Reservations, Even at the Rush
When the dining room is full, the phone is the first thing to go. We put AI on your phone line, your website and your catering inquiries so every guest gets an answer, every order gets taken and every table gets booked, even on a Friday night. Done for you, live in 2-3 weeks.
Restaurants miss up to 30% of calls during peak hours.
Cyber Dogs AI builds and manages AI for restaurants. An AI phone host answers every call, takes takeout orders, books reservations, and answers menu, allergen and hours questions, so your staff can stay with the guests in front of them. Catering and private event inquiries get captured and followed up automatically. We start with an AI Profit & Strategy Blueprint that shows where AI will make your restaurant the most money, then build it, then manage it.
What AI for Restaurants Looks Like on a Busy Night
Here's a normal week with AI on your phones. Nobody on your team is replaced. They just stop running to the phone in the middle of service.
6:45 PM, Friday.
Every table is full and the host stand has a line. The phone rings three times in a minute. The AI answers every call, takes a pickup order for two pizzas and a salad, reads it back, and sends it to the kitchen through Toast. Another caller books a table for four at 8:15 in OpenTable.
7:20 PM, Friday.
A guest calls to ask if the fried calamari is gluten free. The AI answers from the allergen info you approved and offers to connect them to a manager for anything it isn't sure about.
10:30 AM, Monday.
An office manager fills out a catering form for a lunch for 40 next week. The AI replies right away, asks about date, headcount and budget, and sends the details to your catering lead with a follow-up scheduled if they don't book.
Every day.
Hours, parking, wait times and holiday hours questions get answered on the first ring, and every call is logged so you can see what guests are asking for.
Where Your Restaurant Is Losing Orders Today
Most restaurants don't have a demand problem at the rush. They have a phone problem. When nobody can pick up, that guest calls the place down the street.
Calls nobody can answer at the rush
Friday and Saturday nights are when the most people call and when your staff is least able to pick up. Every ring that goes unanswered is an order or a table that may go somewhere else.
Staff pulled off the floor
Every "What time do you close?" call pulls a host or server away from guests who are already there and spending money.
Reservations that never get made
Guests who can't get through to book often don't try again. They pick another restaurant.
Catering inquiries that sit
Catering and private event requests are some of your biggest checks, and they often wait days for a reply while the customer books someone else.
What We Build for Restaurants
A Restaurant AI Answering Service for the Friday and Saturday Rush
Your busiest hours are also your hardest hours to answer the phone. The AI picks up every call, as many at once as come in, so no guest hears a busy signal or endless ringing. Your team stays focused on the guests in the room, and the phone keeps making you money.
AI Phone Ordering That Gets the Order Right
The AI takes takeout and pickup orders from your actual menu, asks about sizes, add-ons and special requests, reads the order back, and gives the guest a pickup time. Orders go to your kitchen the way you already work, so your team isn't re-typing tickets in the middle of service.
Answers to Menu, Allergen and Hours Questions on the First Ring
Most calls are simple questions. Are you open on Sunday? Do you have vegan options? Is there parking? The AI answers them instantly from information you approve. For allergy questions, it only answers from the allergen details you give it, and it hands anything it isn't sure about to a manager.
Reservation AI That Books Tables While You Serve
Guests can call and book a table just like they would with your host. The AI checks availability, books the reservation in your system, and sends a confirmation. Large parties and special requests can be flagged for a manager.
Catering Inquiries Answered the Same Day
Catering and private events are big tickets that need fast, organized follow-up. The AI replies right away, gets the details your catering team needs, and keeps following up politely until the customer books or tells you no.
How We Get Your Restaurant Running on AI
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AI Profit & Strategy Blueprint
We review your phones, takeout orders, reservations, catering and admin work, find where AI makes or saves the most money, and give you a prioritized plan with projected payback. It includes a leadership discovery session and workflow audit, profit-gap and bottleneck analysis, an AI readiness and data review, a security and privacy assessment, prioritized AI opportunities, a custom 90-day roadmap, ROI and payback projections, and an executive findings presentation.
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Build and launch
We set up your AI phone host, chat and catering follow-up around your menu, hours, reservation rules and kitchen workflow, test it with your team, and go live. Most restaurant systems are live in 2-3 weeks.
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We manage it
We monitor calls, update menus and specials, tune answers and report on calls answered, orders taken, reservations booked and catering leads captured.
What Restaurants Get
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AI Profit Scorecard
See how many calls and reservations you miss at rush
9 quick questions. Get your AI Profit Score, an estimate of what missed calls are costing you each month, and your top 3 AI opportunities.
Built for the Way Restaurants Work
Your guests trust you with their orders, their allergies and their contact details. We build around that.
Your data stays yours.
Guest conversations and contact details stay in your private, encrypted deployment. We don't use your guests' information to train public AI models.
Allergen answers you approve.
The AI only answers allergy questions from the information you give it, and it hands anything uncertain to a manager. It never guesses.
Payments stay in your system.
The AI takes the order. Payment is handled the way you already handle it, in your POS or at pickup.
Call recording handled correctly.
Disclosures are configured for the states you operate in, since consent rules for recording calls vary by state.
Full visibility.
Every call is logged with a transcript and summary, so managers can see exactly what was said and ordered.
This page is general information, not legal or food safety advice. Each restaurant is responsible for the accuracy of its own menu and allergen information.
Questions Restaurants Ask Us
Can the AI really take phone orders?
Yes. AI phone ordering takes orders from your menu, asks about sizes, add-ons and special requests, reads the order back and gives a pickup time.
Does it work with Toast, Square or OpenTable?
Yes. We work with the tools restaurants already use, including Toast, Square, Clover, OpenTable, Resy and SevenRooms. We map the exact connections during your Blueprint and set them up during the build.
How is this different from a restaurant AI answering service that just takes messages?
A message service writes things down for later. Our AI answers the question, takes the order or books the table on the call, so nothing waits until after the rush.
Can it handle more than one call at a time?
Yes. The AI answers every call that comes in, even when several guests call at once.
What about allergy questions?
The AI answers only from the allergen information you approve. If a guest asks something it isn't sure about, it connects them to a manager.
Can reservation AI handle large parties and special requests?
Yes. You set the rules. Large parties, private dining and special requests can be booked automatically or flagged for a manager.
How long does it take to go live?
Most restaurant systems are live in 2-3 weeks after the Blueprint.
What does it cost?
It depends on your call volume and how much you want automated. We start with the AI Profit & Strategy Blueprint, which shows the projected return before you commit to a build.
Stop Losing Orders to a Ringing Phone
Find out how many calls, orders and reservations you miss at the rush and what it's worth to fix. It takes about 3 minutes.
Prefer to talk? Call 406-500-5858.