Restaurants
The phone rings loudest
when the floor is slammed.
Tetra is an AI phone answering service for restaurants. Claire answers your existing line 24/7 — taking reservations, answering menu questions, and flagging private-event inquiries — from $199 a month. Because Friday’s calls come during Friday’s rush, and the party of eight doesn’t leave a voicemail.
Free · no signup · demo calls run up to 3 minutes
Restaurant phones ring at the worst possible moment — by definition.
The calls come during service, because that’s when people think about dinner. Your host can seat the walk-in or answer the phone — not both — and whichever loses, you pay for it. An empty four-top that called and got voicemail is pure lost margin.
Reservation apps catch the diners who book online. But the calls still carry your highest-value business: the party of eight, the anniversary that has questions, the private-event inquiry, the “can you fit us in tonight?” Those callers don’t leave messages — they dial the next restaurant on the list.
Claire answers on the second ring, every night. She takes the reservation — working alongside OpenTable, Resy, Tock, or Toast — answers the menu, parking, and dietary questions the way your best host would, and sends the big-party and event inquiries straight to you.
What Claire handles on your line
Configured to your business during onboarding — your services, your prices, your rules.
Reservations, taken
Party size, date, time, name, number — captured and booked around your seating.
Big parties & private events
The highest-ticket calls a restaurant gets, flagged straight to you.
Menu & dietary questions
Gluten-free, allergies, corkage, dress code — answered from your playbook.
Hours, parking & directions
The questions that interrupt your host forty times a week, handled.
Cancellations & changes
Freed tables flagged immediately so you can fill them, not eat them.
The handoff
Every call becomes a text and email: who, how many, when, and what they need.
An empty four-top is pure lost margin.
Tables and takeout orders run $50–$150. Slide to the calls that ring out during service and on closed days, and look at the month.
Tetra starts at $199 a month. See pricing →
Pricing, published.
No contracts. Live in 24 hours. Cancel anytime.
Starter
$199/mo
+ $300 setup · up to 200 calls/mo
Growth — most popular
$349/mo
+ $500 setup · up to 600 calls/mo
Pro
$549/mo
+ $800 setup · high volume
Every plan includes 24/7 answering, lead capture, instant summaries, and booking configured to your software. Full pricing details · How much does an AI receptionist cost?
Restaurants questions, straight answers.
Can it really take reservations during the rush?
That’s exactly the moment it exists for. While your host seats the room, Claire answers, checks what you’ve told her about seating, and books — directly into your system where it allows it, or captured and confirmed by your host between seatings. The caller gets a table instead of a dial tone.
Does it work with OpenTable, Resy, or Toast?
We configure Claire around whatever runs your book. Depending on what your platform allows, she books directly, holds the request for a one-tap confirm, or captures everything and texts the caller your booking link. We map it with you during onboarding — your floor plan and turn times stay yours.
What about takeout and catering calls?
Claire handles them the way you tell her to: capturing the order details for your team, texting the caller your online-ordering link and answering questions, or flagging catering inquiries — which, like private events, go straight to you. We set the flow up together in onboarding.
Hear Claire answer for your restaurant.
Book a 15-minute walkthrough and we’ll show you what Claire sounds like with your menu, your hours, and your seating — live on your line in 24 hours.