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Not just AI. Our SI voices sound human. · Restaurant bookings host

Mid-service, phone ringing, table lost?

Hear it answer for your restaurant, right now. Every booking call answered, tables and events booked, deposits taken, from a flat monthly price. Live today.

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Restaurant bookings host

A restaurant bookings host, a year

$37,230

Median full-time pay, United States, before employer costs, holiday, sick cover and recruitment

SiVoice Team plan, a year

$5,388

Every call answered, day and night, three lines, deposits, ring-backs

What you keep, a year

$31,842

Before the sick days, the holidays and the Monday-morning text

US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2024, receptionists and information clerks, median

Team plan $449 a month, the best plan· Solo from $199 · 7 days free, then monthly · cancel any time

Built on the engine behind ChatGPT's voice and billions of calls for

  • OpenAI
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The engine that answers for them answers for your receptionist.

Same lines, same clarity, same uptime. Whether you run one van or a hundred branches.

You get a brand-new phone number to share everywhere. Or link it to the number you already have. Your choice, one tap, in the dashboard.

Money-back guarantee

If your stress doesn't go down or your revenue doesn't go up in your first 30 days on a paid plan, tell us and we refund the month. No forms, no argument.

Does an AI receptionist really work? Check it yourself.

Talk to it in a minute

Paste your website below. In under a minute your receptionist is built from your own pages and you can call it in your browser, before you give us an email address.

Read every rule it follows

Nothing is hidden. In your dashboard every rule is written in plain English, and you can change any of them and hear the difference on the next call.

Watch the message land

Ring your own number after it's live. Seconds after you hang up, the summary, the caller's details and the full transcript are in your inbox, and the message is texted to your mobile.

A phone showing the receptionist ringing back after the line dropped

Try this on the demo call

Hang up on it. It rings you back.

Lose signal mid-call, or hang up by accident, and it rings you straight back and carries on where it was. No answer? It leaves a short message. Humans forget to ring back. This doesn't.

The voice

Press play. Would you know it wasn't a person?

It listens while it talks, lets callers interrupt, and answers in the time a person would. Callers can't tell the difference. Press play and hear for yourself.

What does hiring a restaurant bookings host really cost?

Service is the busiest hour on the phone too

Nobody can answer at 7:30pm on a Friday. That is exactly when the table for eight rings, and they book somewhere that picked up.

Nobody can staff a phone at 7.30pm on Friday

Every pair of hands is on the floor. The phone rings through service and the table for eight goes to the place that picked up.

Large parties and no-shows cost a whole section

A table of twelve that does not turn up on a Saturday is a section that stayed empty while you turned other people away.

Allergy questions need the right answer every time

A caller with a nut allergy wants to know what they can eat. A hurried answer from a waiter mid-service is a risk the restaurant cannot carry.

What changes with an AI receptionist instead of hiring

Tables filled, no-shows cut

It takes table bookings, explains the menu, and takes a deposit for large parties so they turn up.

Tables booked with the party size and the request

Time, number, a high chair, a birthday, a window table. Into the connected diary or sent as a request with best times, and a text to the guest.

Large parties held with a deposit

For eight or more, or private events, it texts a deposit link while the caller is on the line. The money lands in your account and the table is used. Team plan.

Menu and allergy questions answered as written

It reads your menu and allergen information exactly, and takes a message for the kitchen for anything it does not cover. Nothing is guessed.

It happens to be AI. That is why it never calls in sick, never needs cover, and answers several callers at once. You do not need to know anything about AI to use it: paste your website, pick a voice, connect a number.

Three calls a restaurant bookings host takes every week

What the caller says, what SiVoice does, and what lands with you.

Birthday table for twelve

“It is my dad's 70th on the 18th. Could we have a table for twelve at about 7?”

It checks the diary for a party that size, offers 7pm or 7.30pm, explains the large-party deposit and the set menu if you have one, and books it with a deposit by text. It notes the birthday.

A twelve-cover table on a Saturday held with a deposit, booked during Friday service.

Coeliac guest before a date

“I am coeliac. Is there anything on your menu I can actually eat?”

It reads the gluten-free options and the allergen notes from your menu exactly as written, says that the kitchen confirms on the night, and books a table for two at 8pm with a note about the allergy.

A guest who would have gone elsewhere booked, with the kitchen warned.

Takeaway on a wet Tuesday

“Can I order two lamb bhunas, a chicken korma, three naan and rice for collection?”

It takes the order item by item, reads it back, gives the total from your menu and the collection time, and sends the order to the kitchen. It does not take a card number.

A takeaway order in the kitchen in under two minutes with nothing mis-heard.

Hear it answer for your restaurant, right now.

Restaurant bookings host: the job description, and who does what

Copy the duties into your advert if you still want to hire. The ticks show what SiVoice takes on from day one.

DutySiVoice

Take table bookings with the time, party size and any requests

Yes

Read the menu, answer allergy and dietary questions from your own information

Yes

Take deposits for large parties and private events

Team plan.

Yes

Take takeaway orders item by item and read them back

Yes

Seat guests and run the floor

No

See exactly how it works for restaurants →

Restaurant bookings host salary against an AI receptionist: the numbers

Median full-time pay from the national statistics office, before employer taxes, pension, holiday and sick cover, recruitment and training. Team is the best plan: three numbers, an AI receptionist per location, deposits on the call, ring-backs, several callers at once. Solo is the one-person option.

A receptionist, a yearA receptionist, a monthSiVoice Team plan, a month BestSiVoice Solo plan, a month
United Kingdom£24,678£2,057£354 · excl. tax£150
United StatesYou$37,230$3,103$449 · excl. tax$199
Deutschland€33,636€2,803€419 · excl. tax€179

Nothing against them. They're people, and people have lives. The phone doesn't.

The fee before the salary

A recruitment agency typically charges a percentage of the first year's salary, commonly 15 to 25 percent, or a daily margin on a temp.

The salary is the start

Add employer's National Insurance or payroll tax, pension, training, and the cost of covering the desk when they're away.

Off sick

UK workers lost an average of 4.4 days each to sickness in 2024, says the ONS. The phone does not get the memo.

On holiday

28 days a year in the UK, and you pay for every one of them. Who answers while they're on the beach?

At lunch

One o'clock sharp, which is when the phone is busiest.

Evenings and weekends

Not on the rota. That is when customers finally have a minute to ring.

Monday morning, the text

Can't make it today. The desk is empty and the week starts on the back foot.

Two calls at once

One person answers one call. The second one is voicemail, however good they are.

Hands in their notice

Just as they finally know the job. Back to the advert, the gap and the training.

SiVoice: none of the above. Every call answered, day and night, from $449 a month on the Team plan.

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Sickness figure: ONS, Sickness absence in the UK labour market, 2023 and 2024. Agency fees vary; check the agency's own terms.

Why not voicemail, an answering service or another receptionist?

Each of them answers part of the problem. Only one answers every call, knows your business and costs less than a day of a receptionist's time.

VoicemailAnswering serviceAnother receptionistSiVoice
Answers every call, day and night
Knows your services, prices and locations
Books into your diary and takes complete details
Follows your rules word for word, every call
Several callers at once, no engaged tone
Live the same day, nothing to install

Restaurant bookings host questions, answered

Updated November 2026

Can it handle a Friday-night rush of calls?

Yes. It answers several callers at once, so nobody gets an engaged tone, and every booking is in your inbox and diary within seconds.

Is this instead of a receptionist, or as well as one?

Either. Some businesses use SiVoice instead of hiring, some use it to take the phone off a receptionist who is already run off their feet, and some use it to cover the gap while they recruit. It answers the phone; a person still greets whoever walks in.

How quickly can it start?

Paste your website and it is built in 30 seconds. You can talk to it in your browser straight away, before you give us an email address. Connecting a phone number takes a few more minutes, and it is answering the same day.

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