For restaurants and bars
A restaurant does not book appointments. It takes reservations.
The phone rings hardest exactly when the dining room is fullest, and every ring pulls somebody off the floor. RingTender answers the hours question, takes the reservation, and only interrupts you for the things that actually need a person.
$69 a month, flat. No setup fee, no per-call fees, cancel anytime.
Where restaurants lose calls
- The phone rings most during service, when every staff member is needed on the floor.
- A large share of calls are the same two questions: are you open, and how late.
- Reservation calls compete with the people already standing at the host stand.
- Catering and large party inquiries are worth real money and get lost in the rush.
When the phone actually rings
- Six to eight on a Friday, the peak of both the rush and the calls
- Holidays, when hours questions multiply
- Weekday mornings, for large party and catering inquiries
- After close, when the machine is the only thing left to answer
What a call sounds like
An example built from the notes a restaurant would write. Your receptionist answers from your services, your prices, and your policies, and nothing else.
Caller
Do y'all take reservations for six people on Saturday?
Your receptionist
We do. Saturday I have seven fifteen or eight thirty available for a party of six. Which would you prefer?
Caller
Seven fifteen works. Do you have anything gluten free?
Your receptionist
We do have gluten free options and the kitchen can accommodate most requests with notice. I have your table at seven fifteen. What name should I put it under?
Prefer to hear it? Call (270) 900-6086. That is a live line answered by the same receptionist.
What it handles for you
- Taking reservations, in restaurant language, into slots you actually have
- Answering hours, location, parking, and holiday schedule from your notes
- Routing catering and large party inquiries straight to you by text
- Answering menu and dietary questions exactly as you have written them
- Keeping a transcript of every call, including the ones after close
Questions restaurants ask
- Does it understand reservations rather than appointments?
- Yes. The receptionist uses the booking language of your business type, so a restaurant takes reservations, a salon books appointments, and a shop takes drop-offs.
- Can it take a to-go order?
- It is built for reservations, questions, and messages rather than order entry. Most restaurants have it take large party and catering details as a message and route those to a manager.
- What about holiday hours?
- You write them in and it answers from that, which handles the single most repeated phone call a restaurant gets.
Hear it before you buy it
Call the live demo line and try to stump it. That is the same receptionist we sell, answering a real business line right now.