The Death of ‘Can You Hold Please?’: How AI Phone Ordering Is Saving Restaurants $47,000 Annually

Busy restaurant owner juggling phone orders and missing opportunities. AI voice ordering solution

Reading Time: 9 minutes At 7:30 PM on a busy Friday night, Maria’s Italian Kitchen had three servers running between tables, two cooks working the line, and a manager trying to handle the front of house. Then the phone started ringing. And ringing. And ringing. “Can you hold please?” became the restaurant’s unofficial greeting as…

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The Hidden Costs of Third-Party Delivery: What Restaurant Owners Really Pay (And How to Calculate Your True ROI)

Photo showing concerned restaurant owner as she calculates he massive hidden costs of 3rd party delivery apps

Reading Time: 8 minutes The average restaurant owner thinks they understand the cost of third-party delivery platforms like DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub. They see the commission rates—typically 15-30%—and assume that’s the full picture. But industry data reveals a startling truth: the actual cost of third-party delivery can exceed 40% of your revenue when you…

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How to Tell Customers About Online Ordering

how to take online orders

Your digital ordering platform is all set up, integrated with your POS system, and ready to take orders and direct them straight into your kitchen! You might know that it exists, after all you’ve had the idea and have been researching options for how to take…

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