How Clerkly AI helps restaurants, bars & cafés

In a restaurant, bar or café, the questions never really stop. What's gluten-free? Are you still serving food? What's the soup today? Do you take walk-ins? What's the Wi-Fi password? Every one of them is easy to answer — and every one of them pulls a server away from a table at exactly the wrong moment.

Clerkly AI is a voice assistant you set up once and place on your counter, host stand, or in the window. A guest simply talks to it, and it answers out loud — using only the information you've given it about your venue. Think of it as a tireless host for the routine questions, so your people can focus on hospitality.

When the floor is slammed, customers can still get answers

Friday night, every server is carrying three plates and counting. That's when the small questions stack up. With Clerkly AI on the counter, guests get an instant answer without waiting for someone to free up:

• Opening hours and last orders
• Allergens, vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options
• Today's specials and what's sold out
• Whether you take walk-ins or need a reservation
• Where the restrooms are and the Wi-Fi password

It's completely hands-free — the guest just speaks — and it works in their language. A tourist can ask in French or Japanese, and Clerkly AI greets and answers them in the same language, no translating required from your team.

Put it in the window and turn passers-by into tables

Some of your best customers are the ones still standing on the sidewalk. People slow down to read a menu in the window all the time — and a surprising number walk on simply because they couldn't get a quick answer.

Place a device facing the street and Clerkly AI becomes a 24/7 greeter. Passers-by can ask the questions that decide whether they come in:

• "What's on the menu tonight?"
• "Do you have vegan mains?"
• "How much is a glass of the house red?"
• "Are you open for lunch tomorrow?"

Because it answers even when you're mid-service or closed for the night, it keeps working when no one's free to lean out the door — helping someone planning tomorrow's dinner decide on yours.

It already knows your restaurant

You don't start from a blank page. Clerkly AI is trained on the business data you already have, so its answers sound like your venue and stay correct:

• Upload your menu, wine and cocktail lists, and allergen sheets as PDF, Word or Excel
• Paste links to your website and reservations page
• Snap a photo of the chalkboard special — the text is read automatically
• Or just type a few notes in your own words

Every answer comes only from what you provide, so Clerkly AI never invents a dish you don't serve. And when a guest asks something it can't yet answer, its smart gap-finding flags the question and suggests what to add — so it gets sharper every week.

A guest at the door asks, in Spanish, whether the paella is gluten-free. Clerkly AI answers in Spanish — while your host seats the table of six.

None of this replaces your team. The warmth of a good server, a recommendation from the bartender, the table that gets looked after — that's still all you. Clerkly AI just quietly takes the repetitive questions off their plate so they have more time for the part only people can do.