Friday night rings out while the kitchen is buried
It is 7pm on a Friday. Two staff are on the line, the ovens are full, and the phone rings for the ninth time. Every unanswered call is a table left empty, or an order that goes to the app that takes a third of it.
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In your caller's language, in your business's own words — not a menu, not a voicemail.
She reads your own services, prices and hours, so she answers the way you would.
Hi, do you have a table for six on Saturday, around seven?
Let me look at Saturday evening. Is seven firm, or would a little earlier or later work?
A bit later is fine. It's my dad's birthday.
Happy birthday to him. I've got seven thirty for six. Shall I put that down?
Yes please. One of us can't have gluten.
I'll put that on the booking so the kitchen sees it before you arrive. Can I take a name and a mobile number?
Anne, and it's the number I'm calling from. Can we bring a cake?
I've noted you're asking about the cake, but I won't promise that one, the floor manager will. Your table is down for Saturday at seven thirty for six, and the text I'm sending has a link if you need to change it.
No. She books tables, answers what is on your list and takes messages. She will not read a menu back, take a food order or take a card number, so anything that ends in money still comes to you or to your ordering system.
She only offers times your calendar actually has. When there is nothing she says so and takes their name and number so you can call if something opens, instead of promising a table that is not there.
She answers with your hours the way you typed them. She does not guess a holiday closing, so if you shut for a long weekend put it in your hours and she will say it.
There is nothing regional about her. She answers whatever line you point at her, and the four things below are the ones that actually matter once you are not in the same province as the company you bought from.
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No new handset, no app for your customers, nothing to learn.
Keep the number on your van and your cards. Unanswered calls roll to her.
She answers, asks what you would ask, and puts the job in your calendar.
Name, number and what they wanted — texted to you, and in your CRM.
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