Hi, how may AI help you? Meet the new restaurant concierge picking up your calls

It’s rush hour. Diners are seated, and more are streaming through the door. Plates are piling up on the pass. Two new UberEats orders have just pinged through the delivery tablet. The phone has started ringing, but there’s no one around to pick it up.

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