AI phone answering for restaurants

Every call answered.Every order taken right.

During the dinner rush, the phone rings and nobody can grab it — so the customer calls the place down the street. PhoneChef AI picks up every time, takes the order, and confirms it back. Day or night.

  • English & Spanish included
  • No long-term contract
  • Setup in days
Busy restaurant kitchen during the dinner rush with the phone ringing at the counter

Incoming call — 7:42 PM

Answered by PhoneChef · order confirmed

The busier you are, the more orders you lose.

Rush hour is when the phone rings most — and when nobody can answer it. Those calls don't wait. They order somewhere else.

Ringing into voicemail

Hungry customers rarely leave a message. They hang up and dial the next restaurant.

Staff pulled off the floor

Answering mid-service slows the kitchen, the counter, and the guests already in front of you.

Revenue you never see

Missed calls never show up in your reports — which is exactly why they're easy to ignore.

What are missed calls costing you?

Slide to match your restaurant. The math is yours — we just add it up.

8 calls
$34
26 days

Potential monthly revenue at risk

$7,072

Assumes every missed call would have become an order at the value you set above — a ceiling, not a forecast. It doesn't account for plan cost, setup fee, or how many of those calls you'd actually convert. Estimate only, not a guarantee of results.

Try it yourself

Hear PhoneChef take a real order

Don't take our word for it. Talk to Sofia below and order something — the same AI that would answer your restaurant's phone will take it.

Demonstration

El Camino Taco Co.

A fictional restaurant, created for demonstration only

El Camino Taco Co. is not a real business and is not a PhoneChef client. It exists solely so you can hear how PhoneChef's AI handles a real order. The menu, prices, and address you'll hear are invented.

You'll speak with Sofia, the AI — right here in your browser. She'll confirm the order back to you and quote a total, exactly as she would for your customers.

Try ordering:

a tacoa burritonachosa quesadillachips & salsa
  • This call is recorded, as Sofia states when she answers — for demo and quality purposes only.
  • No order is placed and no payment is taken.
How it works

Four steps. No new hardware, no new habits.

Step 1

We connect your phone line

Keep your existing number. Calls you can't get to ring through to PhoneChef instead of voicemail.

Step 2

PhoneChef answers and takes the order

Every call, in English or Spanish, day or night — no hold music, no missed rush orders.

Step 3

The order is read back and confirmed

The full order is repeated to the customer before it's finalized, so the ticket matches what they asked for.

Step 4

It lands on your dashboard

Orders appear in real time in your simple dashboard, ready for the kitchen.

What you get

Built for how restaurants actually run.

Answers every call

No more orders lost to voicemail while the kitchen is slammed.

Bilingual, at no extra cost

Takes orders in English and Spanish — included in the plan, not an add-on.

Confirms the full order

The order is repeated back to the customer before it's finalized.

Simple order dashboard

See incoming orders in real time. Included with your plan.

No long-term contract

Month-to-month. Cancel anytime, no early termination fee.

Live in days, not weeks

Setup takes days — you'll be answering more calls this week.

Pricing

Simple pricing. No surprises.

Both plans answer every call, in English and Spanish, month-to-month.

Standard

$397/month

  • ~750 minutes of calls included each month
  • Overage billed at $0.35 per additional minute
  • $249 one-time setup fee
  • Bilingual English & Spanish order taking included
  • Order confirmation read back on every call
  • Live order dashboard with real-time alerts
  • Month-to-month — cancel anytime, no early termination fee
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Premium

$597/month

Everything in Standard, plus:

  • Order analytics — busiest hours, average ticket, order volume over time
  • Full order history, not just the last day's tickets
  • CSV export for your books and your Square reconciliation
  • Larger live order feed on the dashboard
  • AI business insights & assistant — rolling out soon
Start Your Free 10-Day Trial

10-day free trial on either plan. No commitment — not sure which fits? Tell us about your restaurant and we'll help you pick.

Beyond Premium

Need something more custom?

Standard and Premium cover what most restaurants need. For businesses ready to go further, we take on a limited number of bespoke AI engagements outside the two plans above — built around your own systems, scoped and quoted per project.

Stop losing orders to the restaurant down the street.

Try PhoneChef AI free for 10 days. Setup takes days, not weeks — and there's no contract holding you to anything.

  • Every call answered, day or night
  • English and Spanish at no extra cost
  • Cancel anytime, no early termination fee

Start your free 10-day trial

Tell us where to reach you and we'll get your line set up.

No commitment. Month-to-month, cancel anytime. We'll reach out personally to set you up — nothing is charged today.