When the deck is full and the sun is still high over Flathead Lake, the phone does not care. An Ai agent answers every call about wait times, hours, and tables for eight, so your host can seat the guests who are actually standing there.
A Lakeside restaurant really serves two different towns. From June through August it serves a resort town: boaters coming off the water hungry at 6pm, vacation rental guests walking down to Highway 93 looking for a table on the water, and road-trippers between Kalispell and Polson who saw the lake and decided dinner should come with that view. The rest of the year it serves the real Lakeside, the year-round neighbors and the winter crowd rolling down from Blacktail Mountain wanting something warm after last chair.
The phone behaves differently in each season, and it is a problem in both. In July it rings constantly while your smallest-crew-in-years is running food to a packed deck: how long is the wait, do you take reservations, can you seat twelve for a birthday, is the kitchen still open, do you do takeout we can eat on the beach. In January it rings when nobody is standing near it, and the caller just wants to know if you are open on a Tuesday. Miss the July calls and you lose covers on the best nights of your year. Miss the January calls and people quietly assume you are closed for the season.
An Ai agent from Ai Boost answers all of it, instantly, in a friendly voice trained on your actual restaurant: your current hours, your seating policy, your kitchen close time, your menu highlights, whether dogs are allowed on the patio, and what nights get busy. It captures reservation and large-party requests with a name and number so your manager can confirm them between rushes. It never puts a local on hold, and it never lets a visitor's first impression of your place be a voicemail greeting.
Summer hours, winter hours, holiday closures, and kitchen close times answered correctly every single time.
Name, phone, party size, date, and time captured and handed to your host stand for confirmation.
Rehearsal dinners, birthday tables, and buyout inquiries collected with the details you need to say yes.
What is on the menu, what is gluten free, whether they can grab it to go for a sunset picnic at Volunteer Park.
Patio dogs, kids menu, walk-in policy, parking off Highway 93: your answers, said the way you would say them.
The same agent answers on your website, where tomorrow night's guests are already planning their evening.
Straight talk: the agent does not cook, pour, or bus, and it does not take credit card payments over the phone. It will not promise a lakeside table at 7pm on a Saturday if you have not told it that promise is yours to make, and it does not argue with an upset caller; it takes the details and gets them to a human. If your seating is first come, first served in summer, it says so plainly rather than inventing a reservation book you do not keep. It is the calmest person who has ever answered your phone, but the hospitality is still yours.
The Pilot package is $249 one time for one in-depth Ai agent of your choice, first agent add-on included, with optional hosting at $99/mo. If your restaurant's website needs a refresh anyway, the Custom Website + Chat Agent package is $499 plus $149/mo, hosted and managed, with the chat agent built in. Every package starts with a free basic demo trained on your restaurant, so you can call it and ask about your own patio before paying anything. All packages are on the Lakeside packages page.
It captures the reservation request: name, phone, party size, date, and time, and gets it to you or into your system the way you choose. If you do first-come seating in summer, it explains that clearly instead, along with realistic expectations about busy nights.
Yes, that is exactly the kind of thing it is built for. Summer hours, shoulder-season hours, winter hours, holiday closures, and kitchen close times all live in the agent's training, and updating them is a quick change, not a project.
That is its best hour. When every server is on the floor and the phone is ringing on the host stand, the agent picks up instantly, answers the wait-time or hours question, and lets your crew stay with the guests in front of them.
Free basic demo first, always, with an extremely fast turnaround once you order. Hans is local and happy to meet you in person between services. Restaurants at the foot of the lake can start from the Ai Receptionist Polson page.