Guides
The restaurant phone, figured out.
Short, plain-English guides for owners: the math, the setup, and the questions worth asking. Useful whether or not you ever buy anything from us.
- The math
What a missed call really costs a restaurant
One missed dinner call is usually one lost order. Your average ticket, times the calls you miss a week, times 52. Simple math, no scary statistics.
Read the guide → - The codes
How to forward your restaurant’s phone (every major carrier)
Exact call forwarding codes for Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, landlines, Spectrum, Comcast, and VoIP. Forward every call or only the ones nobody grabs.
Read the guide → - Buyer’s checklist
Nine questions to ask before you buy AI phone answering
Nine plain questions to ask any AI phone answering company: order read-backs, human handoff, keeping your number, setup, true cost, and a real test.
Read the guide → - Plain English
How AI phone ordering works, in plain English
A plain-English walkthrough of AI phone ordering for restaurants: how it learns your menu, why it asks instead of guessing, and when a person takes over.
Read the guide → - The rush
The dinner-rush phone: how good restaurants handle it
Who answers, where the phone lives, the pickup whiteboard, the read-back habit, plus the honest limit of tactics and when to forward overflow calls.
Read the guide → - The options
Answering service, AI, or voicemail: what actually fits a restaurant
Do nothing, voicemail, a human answering service, or an AI phone operator: what each does well, where each breaks in a restaurant, and how to choose.
Read the guide → - The price tags
How much does an answering service cost a restaurant?
What answering services really cost restaurants: published per-minute rates, flat AI plans, the hidden fees, and the one number worth comparing.
Read the guide → - The big call
Catering calls: the most expensive calls you miss
Catering calls are the biggest orders your phone gets, and they land mid-rush. A better greeting, a one-page menu, and a fast callback save them.
Read the guide → - The big game
Game day: when the phone beats the kitchen
Game day stacks pre-orders on live calls, and the phone breaks before the kitchen. A prep plan: smaller menu, cutoff times, staggered pickups.
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Fifteen minutes. Bring your menu.
You’ll hear OrderVoice answer the calls your restaurant actually gets. $49 a month, plus $1 per order.
You pay nothing until the service has taken 50 correct orders for you, as your signed agreement defines them. Plus applicable sales tax. Pricing and order details
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