# AI receptionist for restaurants — live in 5 minutes

> Take reservations, answer the hours-and-menu questions, and hand takeout orders to a person.

Canonical: https://ahoya.ai/for/restaurants

## AI front office for restaurants

- Takes reservations with party size
- Answers hours and menu questions
- Routes takeout orders to a human

## Calls it handles

### Reservation

Captures date, time, and party size, checks the book, and confirms the table back to the caller.

### Hours & menu

Answers the questions that flood the line — hours, location, dietary — without pulling staff off the floor.

### Large party

Flags a group of eight or more to your team so you can handle the big bookings personally.

### Takeout

Routes takeout to a person or takes a callback number — it never risks getting an order wrong.

## Setup

1. **Paste your website** — We read your hours, location, and menu basics in seconds.
2. **Pick a voice** — Choose how your host sounds and review exactly what it says.
3. **Forward your line** — Point your phone at your new AI host. No porting, no downtime.

## Frequently asked questions

### Can it take takeout orders?

By design it doesn't — a wrong order costs you a customer. It routes takeout to a person or takes a callback number, and focuses on reservations and questions it can nail every time.

### What about busy Friday-night call volume?

It answers every line simultaneously, so the reservations that used to ring out during service get captured instead — no host juggling the phone and the floor.

## See also

- [Ahoya pricing](https://ahoya.ai/pricing)
- [All industries](https://ahoya.ai/industries)
- [Sample calls by industry](https://ahoya.ai/sample-calls)