AI Chatbot Built for
Restaurants & Food Service
Let your staff focus on guests, not the phone. Answer menu questions, handle reservations, manage dietary inquiries, and capture catering leads — automatically.
Challenges every restaurant faces
Your team is busy serving guests. Let AI handle the repetitive questions.
Constant Phone Interruptions
Your staff is juggling in-house guests while the phone rings non-stop with questions about hours, menu items, and reservations. Service quality drops when the kitchen is slammed.
Allergy & Dietary Liability
One missed allergy question can mean a hospital visit and a lawsuit. Staff under pressure may forget to ask or communicate dietary requirements to the kitchen accurately.
Lost Catering & Event Revenue
Catering inquiries come in via website forms that sit unanswered for days. By the time you respond, the customer has already booked with another restaurant.
How Chatonbo solves it
Purpose-built features for restaurants, cafes, and catering businesses.
Interactive Menu Assistant
Your chatbot knows every dish on your menu — ingredients, preparation methods, pricing, and portion sizes. Guests can ask about gluten-free options, vegan dishes, spice levels, or chef recommendations, and get accurate answers instantly.
Reservation Assistance
The chatbot collects party size, preferred date and time, and any special requests (high chair, outdoor seating, birthday setup), then sends the reservation details to your team via email, Slack, or webhook for confirmation.
Allergy & Dietary Filter
Guests type their dietary restrictions and the chatbot instantly lists safe menu options. Whether it's celiac, nut allergy, kosher, halal, or vegan — your chatbot provides reliable, kitchen-verified answers that reduce risk.
Catering & Event Lead Capture
When someone asks about catering, the chatbot collects event date, guest count, budget range, cuisine preferences, and contact information — then notifies your catering manager immediately. No more leads sitting in an unmonitored inbox.
See it in action
Real conversations your AI chatbot handles automatically.
Let your chatbot take the calls
Free plan includes 250 conversations per month. Set up in under 5 minutes.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about AI chatbots for restaurants.
It answers menu questions, confirms hours and location, takes reservation requests, collects catering leads, handles allergy and dietary inquiries, and routes private-event requests to your manager — 24/7, even during the dinner rush when your phone is ringing non-stop.
Yes. Upload your menu with dish-level allergen and dietary info (gluten-free, vegan, kosher, halal, nut-free, dairy-free) and the bot gives reliable, kitchen-verified answers. It always recommends confirming with staff on arrival as an extra safeguard.
The chatbot collects party size, date, time, and special requests, then sends the reservation to your team via email, Slack, or webhook — which connects to OpenTable, Resy, Tock, or your own system via Zapier. For simpler workflows, your hostess receives the request directly.
Yes — this is usually the single highest-ROI use case for restaurants. The bot collects event date, guest count, budget range, cuisine preferences, and contact info, then notifies your catering manager in real time. Events typically run $500–$5,000+ in revenue, so a single captured lead can pay for the platform for a year.
Yes. The bot auto-detects visitor language and responds in 50+ languages — essential for restaurants in tourist cities like NYC, Miami, London, Paris, Amsterdam, or Dubai.
Typically under an hour. Paste your website URL, upload your menu (PDF or text), set your hours and address, customize the widget, and paste the embed code. The bot is trained instantly on your menu and ready to answer guests.