Slang.ai
Slang AI is a voice AI phone concierge for restaurants. It answers every inbound call around the clock, takes and changes reservations in connected booking systems, answers questions about hours and menus, texts guests links, and alerts staff to priority calls such as private events or complaints. It is sold per location to restaurants and restaurant groups.
Last reviewed
- Best for
- Full-service restaurants that miss calls, Restaurant groups
- Pricing
- From USD 399 per location per month
- Runs on
- Web
Who it is for
Full-service restaurants that miss calls
Answers calls during rushes and after hours and books tables directly into OpenTable, SevenRooms or Yelp.
Restaurant groups
Can suggest availability at sister restaurants when a location is full and ranks performance across locations.
Venues taking private events
Captures event leads and sends them to Tripleseat or Perfect Venue.
What it does
24/7 call answering
Answers every inbound call and responds to questions on hours, directions, promotions and allergies.
Reservation management
Guests can make, change or cancel reservations by phone across OpenTable, Yelp and SevenRooms.
Reservation cross-selling
If a guest's first choice is full, it suggests openings at nearby sister restaurants.
VIP call routing
Identifies frequent diners and routes them straight to staff or a concierge line.
Real-time alerts
Sends alerts to a phone for topics such as private events, complaints and lost items.
Text messages to guests
Sends confirmations, ordering links and wine lists by SMS.
AI-powered texting
Guests can text the restaurant's number and hold a full conversation, for example to book or say they are running late.
Call recordings, summaries and transcripts
Keeps a recording, summary and transcript for each call in one place.
Smart Inbox
Tags outstanding guest follow-ups and orders them in a priority queue.
Call insights
Reports top caller topics, peak call times, answer rates, guest satisfaction and covers booked, with ranking across locations.
Guest satisfaction scoring
Captures a satisfaction score on each call.
Call scheduling and forwarding
Configurable call forwarding and routing during or after business hours.
Custom branding and Spanish support
Premium adds a branded concierge experience and Spanish-language conversations.
Enterprise controls
Enterprise adds custom workflows, custom integrations, advanced reporting, MFA and SSO.
Pricing
- Starting price
- From USD 399 per location per month
- Pricing model
- Subscription per location
Core starts at $399 per location and Premium at $599 per location on the USD view of the pricing page, which also has CAD and AUD views with different figures. Enterprise is custom priced. The billing period is not written on the page.
How it compares
Compared with the 12 products in Voice AI & Phone Ordering that have a profile on this site. These figures describe the category. They are not a recommendation.
- Names 6 integrations. The median in this category is 7.
- Lists Web only. Among the 10 products in this category that state their platforms, 0 list an iOS app and 0 list an Android app.
- The category's 10 most-named integration partners are Olo, OpenTable, Square, Toast, Clover, Resy, SevenRooms, NCR Aloha, Checkmate, Deliverect. Of these, this product's listing names OpenTable, SevenRooms.
Works with
- Reservations
- OpenTableSevenRoomsYelpFishbowl
Where and how it runs
- Available in
- United States, Canada, Australia
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Platforms
- Web
- Hardware
- None stated. It works with the restaurant's phone line through call forwarding.
The pricing page offers USD, CAD and AUD pricing views; no country list is published.
The company
- Company
- Gablex Inc.
- Headquarters
- New York, United States
- Founders
- Alex Sambvani, Gabe
- Funding
- Series B, $36M ($28M equity and $8M debt), February 2026 (US Venture Partners, Thayer Investment Partners, Claire Hughes Johnson, Homebrew, Stage 2 Capital, Active Capital, Wing VC, Collide Capital, Underscore VC)
- Customers named by the vendor
- Texas de Brazil, Carmines, Riot Hospitality Group, Dineamic Hospitality, Bluegrass Hospitality Group, Red Rocks Café, The Fireman Hospitality Group
Security and support
- Support
- Premium and Enterprise include dedicated customer success managers; setup takes as little as 30 minutes according to the vendor.
Listing details
- Built for
- Bars, Cafés, Restaurants
- Focus
- Food-specific
- Status
- Active
- Website
- slang.ai
- Also listed in
- AI Assistants & Copilots for Food Businesses
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What we could not confirm
These points were not confirmed when this page was written.
- Contract term and billing period
- Founding year
- Founder Gabe's full name
- Security certifications
- Employee count
- Countries actually served
- Customer count beyond the vendor's claim
Sources
Facts on this page come from the pages below, checked on 29 September 2026. Prices and features change, so confirm with the vendor before you buy.
- Homepagehttps://www.slang.ai/
- Product featureshttps://www.slang.ai/product
- Plans and priceshttps://www.slang.ai/pricing
- Integrationshttps://www.slang.ai/integrations
- Founders and storyhttps://www.slang.ai/about
- Series B, New York, customershttps://www.slang.ai/press-releases/slang-ai-raises-36m-series-b
- Legal entityhttps://www.slang.ai/terms-of-service