For restaurants, bars, cafés & breweries

The phone rings mid-service. Your host is seating a four-top.

The call is a party of six asking about Friday. It rings out, they book somewhere else, and nobody ever knows it happened. We take that call, and the Instagram DM, and the review request afterwards.

  • Live in 7 days
  • Month-to-month
  • Limited spots per area
Ember & Oak
Fri 7:58 PM · dinner rush · Instagram DM · host on the floor
Ringing
7:12 PM(206) 512‑7781Missed
7:58 PM(512) 883‑0146Missed
Incoming call · after hours · nobody at the desk
Caller
any chance of a table for 4 tonight?
Vantaro AI
I have 8:15 on the patio or 9:00 inside. Both are ours to give right now — which would you rather?
Caller
8:15 patio please. one of us is gluten free, is that ok
Vantaro AI
Booked for 8:15 on the patio. On the gluten question I want a manager to answer that properly rather than guess — she will text you in the next few minutes.
Caller
perfect thank you
Vantaro AI
See you at 8:15. Sending the confirmation now.
Table booked from a DM · allergen question escalated to a manager · host stayed on the floor
Recreation of a real call flow
What it actually costs you

Three things every restaurant operator deals with.

28%

of Americans admit to no-showing a reservation

On a forty-seat floor with three-to-five percent margins, six no-shows on a Saturday is not an inconvenience, it is the night.

22%

of operators do not have the staff to meet demand

Nearly eight in ten of them say it has limited their growth. The phone is the first thing that gets dropped when the floor is short.

35.4%

of full-service traffic is now off-premises

Up from 12% in 2019. Every one of those orders and questions arrives through a channel that did not used to ring.

The restaurant playbook

What we set up for Restaurants, bars & cafés.

Answers during service

Reservations, hours, parking, whether you take walk-ins, whether the patio is open. Your host stays on the floor.

Confirmations that cut no-shows

A text the day before and again a couple of hours out, with a one-tap cancel. A table released at 4 PM is refillable; one released at 7:30 is not.

Large-party handling

Parties above your threshold get routed to a manager with a card hold, exactly as you would do it yourself.

Instagram and Facebook DMs

The "are you open Monday" and "do you do private events" questions get answered in minutes instead of days.

Review requests that build the count

The category where the review count is the whole shortlist. Sent after the visit, to everyone.

Campaigns to the people who already came

Slow Tuesday, a new menu, a holiday sitting. Your own guest list is the cheapest marketing you own.

A guardrail we put in writing. Allergen questions always go to a human. The FDA Food Code requires real allergen disclosure and recommends a trained person per shift to handle exactly these questions — an automated line answering "is the pasta gluten-free?" is making a food-safety representation you are liable for. Ours says a manager will confirm, and flags it immediately.

On your current bill

What restaurant operators usually stop paying for.

  • Reservation add-ons
  • Answering service
  • Review platform
  • Email and SMS marketing
  • Social DM management
What it costs

$397 a month on Growth.

Two recovered covers a week pays for it. A host who could also answer DMs at midnight is not a role you can hire.

Growth includes
$397/mo
  • Everything in Launch
  • AI across SMS, web chat, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp
  • Email and SMS campaigns
  • Database reactivation campaigns
  • Review AI — asks, monitors, and drafts replies
  • Pipelines, forms, invoicing and payments
$95What one new restaurant customer is typically worth
24%Of Growth that one customer pays for
$0.54Per hour of cover, across every hour of the month

One-time setup fee of $497$1,500. Quoted before you pay anything. It covers training the AI on your business, connecting your number and calendar, carrier registration for texting, and training your staff.

Talk to someone who has actually run a restaurant phone

Tell us what is happening and we will call your business after hours first, so you hear the problem before we pitch the fix.

No spam and no reselling your information, ever. We call once, and if it is not a fit we tell you so.

Next step

Hear what your restaurant phone sounds like at 8 PM.

We call your business when nobody is there and record what happens. Then you hear the same call handled properly. Fifteen minutes, and the recording is yours either way.

United StatesBuilt in America, for American businesses.