Calso for restaurants
Answers the phone during service and takes the booking.
Calso is an AI phone answerer for Australian restaurants. When nobody can get to the phone during service, or after you close, the call goes to Calso instead of ringing out. It takes and manages table bookings, answers questions about your menu, hours and dietary options from your own website and Google listing, and texts you anything that needs you. You keep your own number.
From $99 a month · 30-day money back from your first payment · You keep your number
The calls restaurants miss
- Friday at 7pm the floor is full, the pass is calling, and the phone rings out.
- Callers want a table, or to ask about dietaries, parking, corkage or whether you take groups.
- Function and big-group enquiries are worth the most, and they need a call back from you.
A missed call to your restaurant
Calso answeredWhat lands in your bookings
Friday 7:00pm, 4 people, Lisa, 0491 574 118. Gluten free noted.
Written example of a typical call, not a recording
What Calso does on those calls
- Takes and manages table bookings over the phone, with dietary notes on the booking.
- Answers questions about your menu, dietary options, hours, parking and corkage, from your website, Google listing and setup interview.
- Takes function and large-group enquiries as a message and texts them to you straight away.
- Says it's an AI assistant if anyone asks. It never pretends to be a person.
What it won't do
- It doesn't connect to Now Book It, OpenTable, SevenRooms or ResDiary, so it can't see bookings made there. Bookings it takes are kept in Calso.
- It doesn't take card details or deposits over the phone.
- It doesn't record calls, and it never guesses: what it doesn't know becomes a message for you.
How your restaurant gets set up
- 01
Calso reads what you've published
Sign up with your business name. Calso reads your website and Google listing for your hours, services, prices and policies.
- 02
A short setup interview
Typed, or by voice if you'd rather. It covers what your website doesn't say, and how you want messages and requests taken.
- 03
Forward the calls you miss
You get your Calso number and choose a plan. Then set your phone to forward the calls you don't answer. Customers keep ringing your usual number.
Setup usually takes under 15 minutes, because Calso reads your website and Google listing first. Nothing is charged until you choose a plan. To undo it, turn call forwarding off.
From the Calso Directory
Restaurants in the Calso Directory
11,578
restaurants listed, in 124 cities and towns
113 hrs
a week the typical one is closed, against about 56 open (96% list their hours)
52%
of 113 Google visits to restaurants' pages came while the business was closed
The visit figure counts Google visits to business pages in the Calso Directory from Saturday 24 to Monday 26 October 2026, set against each business's listed hours in its own state's time. It was a weekend-heavy sample, so read it as a sign of when people look businesses up, not a rule for every week. Each of those visits was someone who might have called.
Where they're listed most: Melbourne (2,464), Sydney (2,386), Brisbane (937), Perth (826), Adelaide (685), Gold Coast (422). Listings and hours as published in the directory, October 2026.
Your directory listing needs no account. Calso, the phone answerer, is a separate paid service.
Which plan suits your restaurant
Pro is sized for about 500 answered calls a month. A restaurant that takes bookings by phone can miss a lot of calls on a busy weekend, so start there. A small lunch-only place that rarely misses a call can start on Starter, sized for about 100. Go over and calls are still answered, with nothing cut off or charged extra, and you can move to Pro any time.
Starter
$99 a month
Sized for about 100 answered calls a month.
Pro
Suggested for restaurants$199 a month
or $1,980 a year ($165 a month)
Sized for about 500 answered calls a month.
Both plans are the same Calso. Go over and calls are still answered, with nothing cut off and nothing charged extra, and you can move to Pro any time. 30-day money back from your first payment. No lock-in, cancel any time.
Questions restaurants ask
No. Calso takes bookings over the phone and keeps them in Calso. It doesn't read or write other booking systems, so it can't see bookings made there. If you take most bookings online through another system, bear that in mind before pointing your phone at Calso.
Yes, from your menu and what you tell it in the setup interview, and it notes dietary requirements on the booking. If it isn't sure whether a dish suits an allergy, it says so and takes a message rather than guessing.
Calso takes the details (date, numbers, budget and what they're after) and texts them to you, so you can call back and look after it properly.
If they ask, yes. Calso says it's an AI assistant and never pretends to be a person.
More answers on the FAQ page.
Calso for other businesses
Stop sending your restaurant's callers to voicemail.
Set it up on your own number, usually in under 15 minutes. Start with only the calls you already miss.
From $99 a month · 30-day money back from your first payment · Cancel any time