Restaurants

An AI receptionist for restaurants that counts seats, not bookings

The phone goes during service and nobody can leave the pass. This picks it up, knows a party of six will not fit on a two-top, holds the table for as long as that sitting actually runs, and texts the guest a code. Six or more, and your own phone buzzes before the call has ended.

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No sign-up, a real confirmation text at the end. Here is exactly how this one is set up, so you know what to ask for.

Call +1 (631) 353-6446, then enter the three-digit code.

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Restaurant

Harbour Table

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Table bookings by party size — it seats you at a table big enough, and not at one that is already taken.

Services

lunch · 1 h · price not quoted
dinner · 1 h 30 min · price not quoted

Staff and space

6 tables for 4
2 tables for 2

Open (Eastern time)

Every day, 7 am – 11 pm

On the call it can

Check which times are open
Book it and text you a confirmation code
Cancel the booking
Move the booking to another time
Take a message for the owner when it can’t answer something

It will ask for

Your name and phone number
How many people

Try saying

“A table for four tonight at seven.”
“Can you move that to eight?”

See all 17 sample businesses and the call rules

What it does on the call

It counts seats, not bookings.

Every table has a size, so a party of six is never offered a two-top — it does that arithmetic before it opens its mouth.

Parties of six or more text you the moment they land, whatever time of day it is.

A sitting is sixty minutes unless you said otherwise, and a long tasting menu holds the table for as long as you told it to.

Same-day cancellations reach you straight away, so the table can go back out.

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Your customers’ languages

Over twenty languages, recognised as the caller speaks — no key presses, nobody has to ask.

A book you can actually read

Today’s list, a calendar, and the written transcript behind every row.

Change it in a sentence

New hours, a day off, a new service — write it the way you would say it. No settings screen to hunt through.

Your customers cancel by text

The confirmation text is also the way out: they reply, the slot goes back into your book, and you are told if it was for today.

Your side is in your language too

The dashboard is in English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian, and both Simplified and Traditional Chinese — dates and durations included, so you never run your book in your second language.

A person, when they ask for one

Confirm your mobile and “can I speak to someone?” rings it. Until then it never offers a transfer it cannot make — it takes a message instead.

The restaurant call on this page runs 1:59 start to finish, nothing cut — the same software that would answer your line.

Questions

Restaurants: the things people ask first

How does it know a party of six will not fit?

Because your tables have sizes, not just a count. You told it you have five four-tops and two twos; it adds up what is actually free at that hour before it offers anything. A booking you have to phone back and undo costs you a guest, not just a table.

Our sittings are not all the same length. Can it hold longer?

A sitting is sixty minutes unless you said otherwise. Write “dinner runs about ninety minutes” or “the tasting menu is two and a half hours” and that is what gets held — so the eight o’clock is not sold twice.

Will I know about a big table before the night arrives?

Six or more texts you the moment it books, at any hour. So does a same-day cancellation, because that is a table you can still sell. An ordinary two-top for next Thursday does not — that is what the evening summary is for, and a phone that buzzes for everything gets ignored for everything.

Half our guests do not open in English. Does that work?

Play the recording on this page. The phone gets handed around a family three times and the language changes five times in one call — nobody presses a key, nobody asks it to switch, and the table is still booked at the end.

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Describe your business and your booking rules get written from that paragraph. There is no waiting list, and you can hear one of those on the page.

How that works

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