A Long Island bagel shop gets a steady stream of small call-ahead orders. A voice agent now puts them straight into its Clover POS, while catering and future-day orders go to a person. At its pace so far, that's about 9,500 phone orders a year worth about $125,000.
About 9,500 phone orders a year worth about $125,000 at its pace so far, about 12 hours of phone time a week back for the team, and phone sales of about 30 times its $350 a month cost (sales, not profit). (as reported by the source)
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You take phone orders for [Bagel Shop]. Use only our menu. Quote 10 minutes for breakfast sandwiches. Payment is at the counter, so don't take cards. Send catering orders and orders for a later day to a staff member. Read back the order and pickup time.
A voice agent takes table bookings and sends them to n8n, which picks a free table, handles cancellations and reschedules, and frees tables after 90-minute slots, all in Google Sheets.
A voice agent takes phone orders from a live menu, suggests add-ons, adds tax and reads back the total, then the order appears in a Google Sheet the kitchen watches.
A Dallas fast-casual Mexican restaurant gets 45% of its sales by phone, and about 85% of callers order in Spanish. Staff had to choose between the line and the phone, losing 10 to 15% of phone orders. With a Spanish and English voice agent, the owner says phone orders tripled.