For restaurants
The best AI receptionist
for restaurants.
Service is busy, the phone rings, nobody can stop. Tomorrow's covers go to the restaurant that answered.
A Saturday morning, told straight
It's 7pm on a Friday. The phone rings. Service has just hit. You miss a table of six.
Friday, 7.04pm. A woman is organising a birthday dinner for her husband. Eight of them, this Saturday, somewhere nice. She has three places shortlisted and rings them in order. Yours is first.
Service has just kicked off. Your front of house is at table nine explaining the specials. The phone rings six times and stops. She rings the next place down. They pick up within two rings, take the booking, and just earned £640 plus the wine spend.
Foan picks up the second the phone rings, in a voice that sounds like your host. Asks the date, the time, the party size, dietary requirements, the occasion. Confirms the booking, drops it into OpenTable or SevenRooms or your diary, and texts your manager so anyone walking into a packed restaurant tomorrow already knows what to expect.
Restaurants tend to assume the phone is dying off. Tablet bookings have grown, sure. But on the nights that matter (Fridays, Saturdays, anniversaries, big sports nights), the phone is still where the eight-tops and the corporate twelve-tops come from. You can't lose those.
Average restaurant misses 8 to 15 phone enquiries a busy Friday and Saturday. Even half converting at £200 a table is £600 to £1,500 a weekend in lost covers. Foan at £199 a month is one missed table.
Same pattern works for private dining enquiries, large group bookings, and the supplier and delivery calls that interrupt service.
The maths for a restaurant
Capture three missed calls a month at £440 and you've recovered £16k a year.
Average ticket for restaurants: £80 to £800. Foan costs less than one missed call a year.
Avg ticket
£440
Per month
£1k
Per year
£16k
When the phone rings, you can't answer.
Friday night booking enquiries hit at 6pm exactly when the kitchen is firing. Nobody can take them.
Foan answers every line at once.
Unlimited simultaneous calls. Ten callers at the same time, ten conversations. Your number is never busy.
What Foan does on a typical restaurant call
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Picks up on the first ring, even when you're with another customer.
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Captures their name, phone number, and exactly what they're calling about, read back to confirm.
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Texts you a summary the second the call ends — or emails it, your pick. Call back while they're still warm.
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Books appointments straight into your calendar (Calendly or Google Calendar).
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Sounds like a real receptionist, not a robot. Trained on your website, your services, your prices.
Works with the software restaurants already run on
Speaks restaurants' language. Plugs into your stack.
Foan reads your live diary, books straight in, and writes the outcome back. No spreadsheets in the middle, no tabs left open at the end of the day.
Connect the rest of your stack
Foan plugs into the systems you already run on. The agent reads your live data, books, and writes the result back. No spreadsheets in the middle.
Restaurant + Mews
Live room availability + booking on Mews. Agent quotes the best rate, takes the deposit, drops the reservation straight into your PMS during the call.
Restaurant + OpenTable
Take real reservations during the call. Agent checks live availability on your OpenTable diary, books the table, sends the confirmation — all before the caller hangs up.
Restaurant + SevenRooms
For hotel restaurants and large group bookings. SevenRooms CRM stays the source of truth — agent reads the diary, books, attaches notes, all in real time.
Restaurant + Cloudbeds
Independent hotels and B&Bs running on Cloudbeds. Agent reads availability across room types, books with deposit, syncs back into your channel manager.
Restaurant + Stripe
Take payments on the call. Send a Stripe link, check invoice status, handle billing questions.
Restaurant + Shopify
Agents know every caller's order history, subscription status, and shipping ETA the moment they ring. Outbound campaigns recover abandoned carts, confirm orders, and re-engage subscribers.
Run the numbers
Curious what missed calls actually cost you?
Plug your average ticket and missed-call rate into the calculator. Most restaurants pay for Foan with the first three captured calls of the month.
Open the missed-call calculatorTry Foan on your own business in 60 seconds.
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