AI receptionist for caterers

The average catering company lets about 17 calls a week ring out. Callwise answers all of them, day or night, books the work into your diary and sends you the transcript.

  • Answers on the first ring
  • Books into your calendar
  • No per minute fees
  • Live in 24 hours
Talk to our AI assistant

Ring +44 330 912 2553. It answers, and you can try to catch it out.

The problem

Why catering companies miss so many calls

Event catering is booked on availability and the first caterer who confirms the date usually wins it.

When the phone rings out

  • while running an event, which is most weekends
  • evenings, when event planning happens
  • the run up to Christmas

What they are ringing about

  • catering for a wedding or a corporate event
  • numbers, menus and dietary requirements
  • availability on a specific date

What that costs a single site

£43,700

a month, on conservative assumptions

About 17 missed calls a week. Assume only a third would have become customers, that is roughly 6 a week, and one customer is worth £1,800 to a catering company. Change any of those to your own figures and the answer stays uncomfortable.

What it does

Built around how a catering company actually works

Checks date availability against your diary

Takes numbers, venue and style of event

Explains your menus and price per head

Answers while you are running an event

It tells callers what it is

It says it is an assistant when it picks up. It gives no advice it is not qualified to give, and anything on your escalation list stops the conversation and reaches you straight away. For a catering company that matters more than the clever bits, because the calls you cannot afford to get wrong are the ones you most need answered.

Questions

What catering companies ask us

We are always at events. Who answers then?

Nobody, and Saturday is both your busiest event day and a common enquiry day. Those enquiries are worth thousands each.

Can it quote per head?

From your menus, yes, which is enough to qualify the enquiry before you spend time on a proposal.

Will it record dietary requirements?

Yes, and repeat them back, so they reach your kitchen accurately.

Hear it answer a catering company call

Ring the number and ask it the awkward question your customers always ask. If you like what you hear, it will book you in there and then.

Talk to our AI assistant

No form, no sales call. Thirty seconds on the phone with the thing itself.