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Missed calls during rushes
When your restaurant is slammed, the phone goes unanswered. Those callers book somewhere else.
Akale AI
Never miss another customer call.
Your AI receptionist answers every call, books reservations, and takes takeout orders — so it feels like hiring another employee without payroll.
Built for ambitious restaurants. Starting in Louisville, KY.
Why restaurants lose money
Every unanswered call is a missed customer.
Independent restaurants do not lose revenue because the food is bad. They lose it because demand slips through cracks in communication.
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After-hours inquiries go nowhere
Customers search, call, and hang up. Overnight voicemail is often too late to win them back.
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Slow replies lose reservations
Texts, DMs, and website questions pile up. Speed is the difference between a booked reservation and an empty table.
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Staff stretched thin
Your staff juggle serving customers and answering the phone. Both suffer — and so does revenue.
Restaurant Revenue Audit
What might unanswered calls be costing you?
Adjust the assumptions below to explore an estimate of revenue at risk from missed phone calls. Results update instantly.
Estimates only
Missed calls / day
11.3
Lost customers / day
4.5
Est. revenue lost / day
$135
Est. revenue lost / month
$3,510
Estimated revenue at risk
Monthly (estimate)
$3,510
Yearly (estimate)
$42,120
Monthly
Yearly
If Akale AI helps recover even a portion of this estimated revenue, it could easily outweigh the monthly subscription cost. This is an illustrative example — not a guarantee or promise of recovered revenue.
These figures are estimates for illustration only. Actual missed-call rates, conversion, and revenue vary by restaurant, season, and market. This is not a guarantee of results or recovered revenue.
Stop losing customers
Never Miss Another Customer Call.
Akale AI answers every phone call 24/7, so your staff can focus on serving customers while every caller gets a fast, helpful response.
- Reservations
- Frequently asked questions
- Hours & directions
- Menu questions
- Takeout orders
- Missed-call recovery
To the restaurant owner, it feels like hiring another employee without payroll.
How it works
Simple to start. Built to run during service.
Restaurant owners are busy. Setup is handled for you, training is minimal, and the system is designed to feel fast, easy, and reliable.
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Restaurant audit
We look at how customers reach you today — phone calls, messages, after-hours — and where revenue is leaking.
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We set it up for you
Your AI receptionist learns your hours, menu FAQs, policies, and how to hand off to your team.
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Go live fast
Phone calls get answered. Reservations and takeout requests get captured. Your staff stays focused on serving customers.
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Keep improving
We review what callers ask, tighten answers, and help you turn more conversations into reservations and takeout orders.
Features
Built to make you more money — and give your team time back.
Every capability maps to revenue, time saved, lower cost, or a better customer experience. Nothing decorative.
24/7 call answering
Never leave callers at voicemail during rushes or after closing.
Reservation capture
Turn phone inquiries into booked reservations with clear next steps for your team.
Menu & FAQ answers
Hours, directions, parking, and common menu questions — answered consistently.
Takeout intake
Collect order details and route them so fewer calls fall through.
Missed-call recovery
Follow up when a caller cannot get through — before they choose a competitor.
Human handoff
Complex or sensitive calls go to your staff. AI handles the repetitive load.
Supporting services
The AI Receptionist is the primary product. These services support it when they improve results for your restaurant.
- Restaurant websites
- AI chatbots
- Google Business optimization
- SMS automation
- Review generation
- Online ordering setup
- Menu digitization
- Customer follow-up automation
Pricing
Hire AI Employees. Grow Your Business.
Clear monthly packages. Start with Ava on the phone — expand into a full AI Workforce when you are ready.
Starter
Hire 1 AI employee for your business.
$299/month
- 1 AI Employee
- AI Receptionist
- 24/7 call answering
- Lead capture
- Appointment booking
- Call summaries
- Business knowledge setup
Growth
Build an AI team with up to 3 employees.
$499/month
- Up to 3 AI Employees
- Everything in Starter
- SMS follow-up
- Expanded automations
- CRM integrations
- Business insights
- Priority support
Business
Deploy an AI workforce across your business.
$999/month
- Up to 10 AI Employees
- Everything in Growth
- Multi-location support
- Advanced workflows
- Premium integrations
- Enhanced analytics
- Priority onboarding
AI Receptionist available now. Additional AI employee roles will be released over time.
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Frequently asked questions
Straight answers for busy owners.
No jargon. Just what you need to decide if Akale AI is right for your restaurant.
It is trained on your restaurant — your hours, tone, and common questions — and it hands off to your team when a caller needs a person. The goal is helpful and clear, not flashy.
Contact
Get a free restaurant audit.
Tell us how customers reach you today. We will show where phone calls and inquiries are being missed — and what an AI receptionist could recover.
- Built for independent restaurants
- Starting with Louisville, Kentucky
- No pressure pitch — education and clear ROI first