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

By Alex, Restaurant Technology Partner | August 22, 2025
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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