AI receptionist for restaurants in Southampton
A Southampton restaurant lets roughly 55 calls a week ring out. Callwise answers all of them on your existing 023 number, books the work and sends you the transcript.
- Keeps your 023 number
- Answers on the first ring
- No per minute fees
- Live in 24 hours
Ring +44 330 912 2553. It answers, and you can try to catch it out.
What the phone looks like for a Southampton restaurant
Southampton and the wider Hampshire has a population of around 900,000, built on maritime, logistics and marine trades. That produces a lot of phone calls, and for a restaurant working across Portswood, Bitterne and Shirley most of them arrive at the exact moment nobody can pick up.
A table booked elsewhere is gone, and a party of twelve that could not get through is a whole evening's covers.
Callwise answers on your own 023 number. Customers ring the number they already have, it is answered on the first ring by something that sounds like a person, and the job is booked into your diary before the caller has thought about trying anybody else.
When Southampton calls go unanswered
- during service, when nobody can reach the phone
- while closed in the afternoon, when people book
- December, when party bookings flood in
What Southampton callers want
- booking a table for tonight
- large groups and private dining
- allergies and dietary requirements
What a Southampton restaurant loses to the phone
£7,100
a month, at one site
Around 55 missed calls a week, assuming only a third would ever have booked, at £90 a customer. Callwise costs £499 a month, whatever the volume.
What it does for Southampton restaurants
Takes bookings with covers, time and name
Handles large group and private dining enquiries
Records allergies accurately
Answers through service and while you are closed
Southampton restaurants ask us
Do we keep our 023 number?
Yes. Your existing 023 number stays exactly as it is and keeps ringing your phones. Calls only reach the assistant when nobody picks up, or at the hours you choose, so nothing about how Southampton customers reach you changes.
Do you work with restaurants outside Southampton?
Yes. There is nothing local about how it works, so Southampton and everywhere across Hampshire is covered the same way, along with the rest of the UK. The local part is your number and your customers, and both stay yours.
Can it take a booking during service?
That is when most booking calls come and when nobody can pick up. It takes them all, at once, without anyone leaving the pass.
Will it record allergies correctly?
It repeats them back and puts them on the booking, which is safer than a note shouted across a busy service.
What about December?
Party bookings arrive in a six week window and are worth many times a normal cover. Missing those calls is the most expensive thing a restaurant does all year.
Other Southampton businesses we answer for
Hear it answer, then decide
Ring it and ask what a Southampton customer would ask. It is the same assistant your callers would get, so if it does not convince you on the phone it will not convince them either.
Talk to our AI assistantNo form, no sales call. Thirty seconds on the phone with the thing itself.