A voice-first AI receptionist for restaurants. Don't read about it — call the line below and hear it for yourself. What you'll talk to is the actual product, demoing itself as a fictional restaurant called Saffron Table.
The Friday rush is when reservations decide your week. It's also when a server is balancing a tray, a chef is yelling for cilantro, and the phone rings in Telugu while the menu is in English. Nobody picks up. The caller drives somewhere else. You never see the booking that almost happened.
Source: 2024-25 restaurant industry research · Breez, Washington Hospitality, BIA/Kelsey · AU ticket-adjusted
The concierge isn't a chatbot grafted onto a phone line. It's a purpose-built voice agent: telephony-grade audio, restaurant-specific reasoning, and a memory that doesn't forget the regulars between Saturdays.
English plus seven Indian languages — Hindi, Telugu, Punjabi, Tamil, Malayalam, Bengali, Gujarati. Most callers never think to ask, so Aahvana offers their mother tongue in the opening breath.
A diner shouldn't have to wonder whether the line speaks Telugu — so Aahvana invites it first ('మీరు తెలుగులో మాట్లాడవచ్చు'), then follows wherever the caller leads, code-switching mid-sentence the way your guests actually speak. It hears 'do logon ke liye, around 8 ki', reads it as 'table for two at 8pm', and confirms in the same register — same fluency in Tanglish, Punjabi, Malayalam, Bengali, or Gujarati.
Sub-2-second answer. Concurrent calls. Friday-rush capacity that scales with the night, not your staff.
Twilio media-stream routing means the line is open the instant it rings. If two callers ring at once, two concierges answer. The fifth call doesn't even know there were four.
Reservations, walk-ins and takeaway orders appear in your Aahvana dashboard and live floor view the instant they're made — no copying off a notepad.
The concierge checks live availability before it promises a table, so it never books a slot that's already taken. Walk-ins added at the host stand update the same floor view in real time. Two-way sync with EatApp and Resy is on the roadmap — today, every booking lives in your dashboard.
'Sat Sri Akal, Mr. Ravindra — the corner table by the window?' By phone number, in the language they last booked in, before the second ring.
Returning callers are matched on number. Their name, preferred table, last visit, dietary notes — surfaced to the concierge instantly. And if their recent bookings were in Punjabi or Telugu, the greeting arrives in that language too. They feel known, because they are.
This isn't a marketing reenactment. It's a redacted transcript from a Friday service at one of our pilot restaurants. Names anonymised, audio destroyed after 48 hours, structure left exactly as the model produced it.
A booking is the easy part. The calls that actually cost you covers — the takeaway order mid-rush, the fully-booked Friday, the question it shouldn't answer — Aahvana handles those end to end, then tells you only what you need to see.
Not just tables. Aahvana takes the full pickup order — items, quantities, pickup time — reads it back to confirm, then texts a payment link so it's settled before they arrive.
Fully booked on a Friday? Instead of 'sorry, we're full', it offers the waitlist — and texts the next guest the moment a table frees up.
A complaint, a supplier, something genuinely off-script — Aahvana transfers the call live to your staff, or takes a callback and pings the owner by SMS.
It checks live kitchen stock before it promises a dish, so it won't take an order for the butter chicken that was 86'd back at eight o'clock.
For peak nights and large parties it can take a per-seat deposit by SMS link — fewer no-shows, fewer empty tables you'd already turned others away for.
Every booking ends with an SMS confirmation, plus a reminder before the night. Allergies, VIPs and unusually large orders also ping the owner directly.
Pick up your phone and call. The AI answers and asks what you'd like — try a fictional booking at Aahvana's House to hear the receptionist, or get a quick product pitch and signup details from the AI sales rep. Around three minutes, no bookings saved.
Every plan starts with a 14-day trial. No card, no call. Cancel anywhere in the dashboard.
For single outlets testing voice AI
For busy restaurants ready to scale
For chains & restaurant groups
No card. Full features. Live in under an hour.
Per-call metering. Live dashboard. No surprises.
Self-serve cancel. We'll port your number out.
Aahvana is run hands-on. Every pilot restaurant has the founder's mobile. Every onboarding call is taken personally. Every change to the model is reviewed by someone who has, in fact, missed a booking on a Friday.
Founder
“I still read the calls myself.”
