AI phone answering for independent restaurants

Someone's always watching the door.
Now someone always answers the phone.

Porchlight picks up every call, checks the book, and takes the booking — sounding like your best host, not a machine. Even at 8pm on a Saturday.

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The 7pm problem

Every unanswered call is a table that goes to someone else.

Dinner service is exactly when the phone rings most — and exactly when nobody's free to answer it. Every missed call is a guest who just tries the next place down the road.

7:41pm — kitchen mid-service
Missed call
7:52pm — kitchen mid-service
Missed call
8:03pm — with Porchlight
Answered, booked, confirmed
How it works

Nothing to install behind the bar. Nothing for your staff to run.

01
The phone rings
A guest calls your existing number, same as always. Porchlight answers within a ring or two, any time you're open — or closed.
02
Porchlight checks the book
It looks at real availability for the date and time asked for, and offers the nearest open tables if the exact slot's taken — just like a host glancing at the reservations sheet.
03
The table's confirmed
Name, party size and number are taken, read back to the guest, and the booking lands straight in your system. No paper, no double-booking.
04
You keep the reins
Changes, cancellations, big groups, private events — anything unusual gets handed straight to you, not fumbled by a machine.
Hear it

It sounds like someone who works there.

CallerHi, do you have a table for four tonight, around 7?
PorchlightLet me have a look for you... 7 o'clock's just gone, but I've got 7:15 or 7:45 free for four — would either of those work?
Caller7:15's perfect.
PorchlightLovely — can I grab a name and a phone number for the booking?
Get in touch

Leave the porch light on for your next table.

We work closely with a handful of independent restaurants and pubs at a time, so every setup gets it right. Get in touch to find out if Porchlight's a fit for yours.

hello@porchlightpro.com