AI tools for restaurants

AI phone agent billed per unique caller instead of per minute; free demo agent before paying.

AI hostess that answers calls, takes pickup and delivery orders into the POS and books tables.

Voice AI that takes pickup and delivery phone orders, takes card payment on the call and syncs to Square, Toast, SpotOn or Clover. No public pricing found.

AI phone answering; Pro adds phone orders into Toast, Square, Clover or Shift4 plus OpenTable reservations.

Drive-thru voice AI that plugs into existing hardware and POS. Aimed at QSR chains. No public pricing.

AI phone host that answers calls and books reservations via OpenTable, SevenRooms, Yelp, Resy and Tripleseat, with text confirmations and call summaries.

Virtual receptionist service with AI-first, hybrid or human-first call handling. General small business, not restaurant specific.

Square AI answers calls to your Square number and takes pickup orders. Needs Square Messages Plus, Plus or Premium; help page shows no separate price.

Menu engineering, procurement and inventory for multi-outlet groups (Growth plan starts at 5 outlets). Pricing page shows no numbers.

Chain-scale operations suite with AI forecasting for inventory, ordering and labor scheduling. Contact sales.

Inventory, purchasing and real-time recipe costing with AI invoice scanning, AI recipe suggestions and Smart Ordering.

Restaurant scheduling with sales-based staffing suggestions and labor-law flags (per Maple's roundup). Pricing page did not render, so left blank.

Scheduling and time tracking; the AI-powered Scheduling Assistant drafts schedules on the Plus plan.

AI agent that drafts and posts brand-voice replies across 200+ review sites and escalates critical feedback. No public price.

Guest data platform with AI campaigns, email and SMS automation; top tier adds AI review replies in your voice.

Online ordering, payments, catering, loyalty and marketing platform for restaurant brands. Chain focus. No public price.

AI-optimized website, direct online ordering, branded app, loyalty and AI-powered email/text marketing.

Restaurant website plus AI-crafted email and social, AI review replies, and an AI phone answering add-on.

Reservations, guest CRM and marketing automation; homepage cites Voice AI for call-in reservations and AI table management. Quote only.

AI accounts payable: scans invoices, predicts GL codes, flags duplicates and cost discrepancies. plateiq.com now shows the Ottimate brand. No public price.

Restaurant accounting, inventory, scheduling and payroll with R365 AI; AI Advisor and AI Scheduling are early access. Contact sales.

Recipe management and costing with AI recipe import, yield math and a recipe margin calculator; menu engineering on Enterprise.

Food and beverage trend intelligence from menu, retail and social signals. Quote and demo only; geared to CPG, retail and large operators.

Restaurant performance analytics: server scorecards, labor insights, menu mix. Light on headline AI.

Restaurant reporting and forecasting layer across POS, labor, inventory, reviews, reservations, with an MCP connector for your own LLM. No public pricing. Not the same company as tenzo.ai (recruiting).

General assistant usable for prep lists, menu copy, review replies, spreadsheet analysis.

General assistant usable for recipe scaling, SOP drafting, review replies, data analysis.

General assistant with Deep Research, file analysis up to 1,500 pages, and Gemini inside Gmail and Docs.

AI assistant inside Toast: ask about sales, labor, menu performance; can update items or edit shifts with your confirmation.

No-code automation that connects apps and can call AI steps; used to route reviews, orders or leads between tools.