For restaurants, cafes and bars
Found on Maps. Answered on the phone. Hours always right.
We build and run your site, keep your Google listing, menu and opening hours current, and answer the phone during service when every pair of hands is busy.
Judge it in one call
Ring it and describe a table for four tonight, with an allergy, the way one of your customers would. It picks up, and you hear for yourself what it does with what you said.
What happens when nobody answers
The phone rings at seven on a Friday. Everyone is on the floor or on the pass, so it rings out and that table books somewhere else.
- The menu on Google is last year's. People turn up asking for a dish you stopped doing in spring.
- Holiday Monday. Google says closed, you are open, and the street stays quiet all day.
- Someone searching for lunch nearby sees three dark photos of an empty room taken on a phone years ago.
The demonstration
Ring the number and say this.
Say this
“Hi, do you have a table for four tonight, around eight?”
The line is ours and the agent on it is set up for Deeplathe, not for your business. It does not know your prices, your diary or your opening hours, and it will say so rather than invent them.
So that is not what you are testing. You are testing the thirty seconds after you finish the sentence: whether it heard the actual problem, whether it asks the next thing a person would ask, and whether it lets you interrupt. That is the part we would build for you, with your prices, your diary and your rules written into the script. What your customers ring about changes; the shape of the call does not.
The call we would build for you
Written example, not a recordingA reservation call on a Friday evening while the dining room is full
Hi, do you have a table for four tonight, around eight?
Let me check. Eight is busy, so it might be closer to eight fifteen. Can I get a name and a cell number?
Dan Course, 646 212 0980. One of us is celiac, is that alright?
That's fine. I'll put gluten free on the reservation so the kitchen sees it before you sit down.
Perfect, thanks.
Four people, eight fifteen, under Dan. The text confirmation is on its way and the kitchen has your note.
What we run for you
Three things, run by us, on one monthly fee.
A site people read one-handed
Menu, opening hours, address, a map and a number that dials with one tap. We build it, host it and keep it current. Christmas hours, a new set lunch, a week closed in January: you tell us, we change it.
The phone answered mid service
Our receptionist picks up when the room is full, and after you have locked the door. It takes the name, the number, the date, the party size and any allergy note, then sends it to you as a text.
Your Google listing kept current
We connect to your Google Business Profile and fill it in: opening hours, holiday hours, menu, photos, the lot. Then we ask every customer for a review and reply to the ones that come in, good and bad.
What it costs
One monthly fee. Nothing up front, and nothing billed on the side.
- The website
- Built, hosted, patched, backed up and monitored, with your Google Business Profile kept current and a review request going out after every visit.
- The receptionist
- The phone picked up day and night, weekends and holidays, working from a script written with you. Every call reaches you as a text and an email with a written summary.
- Both together
- The two halves set up as one thing, on one bill, with one go-live.
From $349/mo
From $499/mo
From $749/mo
A menu change, a new set lunch, Christmas hours: all changes inside the fee.
Paid a year at a time, both together works out at $562 a month, charged once as $6,741.
There is a larger tier of each, and work that fits neither is quoted rather than guessed at. Every plan and what is inside it.
A sample for this trade
Ember & Oak
Restaurant · Asheville
Wood-fired kitchen — a living menu, table reservations, and an AI host that takes bookings while the pass is slammed.
We built it ourselves to show what we do. The business is not real and neither is anyone on it, which is why it says so on the page.
Questions we get
Can it actually take a booking, or only take messages?
It takes the booking: name, number, date, time, party size and any allergy or access note, then texts it straight through to you. For a big party, a private hire or a date you would rather look at yourself, it takes the details and flags it instead of holding the table.
What happens with holidays and Christmas?
You tell us the hours once and we set them on the site and on your Google listing, including the odd days. If you decide on the Tuesday to close the Wednesday, send us a message and we change it. Callers hear the right hours too.
Our menu changes constantly. Is that billed separately?
No. Menu changes, price changes, a new set lunch, a special week: send it over and we put it up. It sits inside the one monthly fee along with hosting, backups, monitoring and maintenance. Nothing is invoiced on the side.
Will callers know they are not speaking to a person?
It answers in your name and says it is the booking line. It does not pretend to be staff if someone asks. It sticks to bookings, hours, where you are and taking a message. Anything it cannot answer goes to you as a text so you can ring back.
Nothing here is worth as much as thirty seconds on the phone.
Ring it, describe a table for four tonight, with an allergy, and judge us on what you hear rather than on anything written above.
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