Pricing · per restaurant location
Choose the front-of-house setup that fits your restaurant. Every plan is month to month, with no setup fee or contract.
Reservations
Everything needed to run the booking book, floor and waitlist.
Start 14-day trial ↗Book a demo →Includes
AI Front of House
Answers every call and message, and manages every booking in one live system.
Start 14-day trial ↗Book a demo →Everything in Reservations, plus
AI Front of House + Orders
Takes phone orders as well as calls, messages and bookings.
Start 14-day trial ↗Book a demo →Everything in AI Front of House, plus
14 days free. No credit card.
No per-cover fees. Ever.
No contract. Cancel anytime.
Live in about 6 minutes.
Your guest data stays yours.
*Unlimited standard restaurant usage is subject to the Fair Use Policy. Prices exclude applicable taxes and standard third-party processing or integration charges.
A fair question, because cheaper usually means less.
Reservation-integrated standalone voice AI is typically $199 to $599 a month and answers the phone. The product overview lists what is included at each Fork Time plan instead. It does not hold your bookings, so you keep paying a reservation platform underneath it. That price covers one product in a stack of two.
Fork Time built its own reservation system, so there is no second platform beneath it and no second vendor's margin stacked on top. One bill covers the answering and the book. We have also spent the engineering on getting our own running costs down rather than passing them through.
You are not buying a cheaper version of the same thing. You are buying a different shape, and the shape is why the number is lower.
Per-cover platforms charge whenever a guest sits down, including regulars who already chose your restaurant. Standalone phone AI can cost more while only answering calls. Fork Time brings the booking book, guest conversations and front of house tools together, and your guest data stays yours.
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Yes. Each plan covers one restaurant location and its team. There is no separate per-user, per-phone-number or per-brand charge for that location.
No. Fork Time does not charge per-cover, per-booking or commission fees. Standard third-party payment-processing, integration and applicable tax charges may still apply. For what a per-cover model costs across a year on the two largest US platforms, see OpenTable vs Resy →
There is no call counting, minute allowance, message cap or overage bill for standard restaurant use. Unlimited AI calls, SMS and WhatsApp are subject to the Fork Time Fair Use Policy.
Fork Time supports concurrent calls for the restaurant location. Calls are not counted or billed by concurrency.
The Reservations plan includes the live booking book, floor and waitlist tools, Smart Deposits, Cancellation Recovery, guest profiles, RSVPs and up to 400 booking-confirmation SMS per month. AI guest conversations are included from the AI Front of House plan.
Because it is not the same purchase. Standalone voice AI answers the phone and sits on a reservation platform you pay for separately, so the total is two bills. Fork Time built its own reservation system, so one price covers the answering and the book.
Yes. Every plan includes a 14-day free trial, one per restaurant location. The $99 Reservations plan starts instantly. Trials with AI answering begin once you request your phone number during setup, so the AI has a line to answer from day one.
There is no long-term contract and no setup fee. Plans are month to month. Your account is live in about 6 minutes, and AI answering within 30 once your number is provisioned.
Fork Time does not add a margin to third-party charges. Standard card-processing fees, CloudWaitress or Square transaction and integration charges, telecommunications charges, and applicable taxes may still apply.
You take it with you. Every booking, guest profile, preference and visit history can be exported in full.
The reservation system, guest records, risk-scored deposits, waitlist and walk-in tools, and the AI answering, in the same bill. Reservation-integrated voice AI alone typically runs $199 to $599 a month and still needs a reservation platform underneath it.
No. Every plan starts with 14 days free and no credit card. You add a card whenever you decide to continue, during the trial or after it. At day 14 without a card the account pauses, nothing is charged, the trial never converts to billing on its own, and your data is never deleted for not converting.
USD, per location, everywhere. Australian and New Zealand cards are charged in USD; your bank applies its standard conversion. Prices exclude any applicable taxes.
Plans are month to month with no contract. Cancel any time and your plan runs to the end of the paid period. Upgrades take effect immediately; downgrades apply from the next billing cycle.
We retry the card twice over the following days and email you each time. If it still fails, AI answering pauses after 7 days' notice until the card is updated; your bookings, guest records and account are untouched.
Answering your restaurant's guest calls and messages, at any volume a single location generates. The fair use policy gives concrete examples of what falls outside it, such as using one location's plan to answer for several venues.
Your account is live in about 6 minutes. AI phone answering goes live within 30 minutes once your Fork Time number is provisioned.
Yes. You can upgrade from Reservations at any time, and Fork Time can activate AI voice the same day. EYEBROW: EVERY CALL ANSWERED H2: See what your current system is missing. The demonstration uses examples based on your restaurant and service style.