AI Receptionist for Restaurants India

For a founding client, month one is the ₹10,000 minimum first credit load and nothing else — the ₹40,000 custom setup is free for our 10 founding clients. From that balance, ₹2,000 goes to the phone number recharge (30 days, only if we supply the number) and ₹5,000 to the Care Plan at the founding rate, leaving roughly ₹3,000 for actual usage. At ₹2 per minute with simple whole-minute billing, that is about 1,500 minutes of calls, or about 1,500 chat conversations at ₹2 each, or a mix of both — a two-minute table booking call bills ₹4. One thing to be clear about: if you run the WhatsApp agent, Meta's own conversation charges are billed by Meta straight to your WhatsApp account, not through us and with zero Dvaarik markup — the ₹2 is only our side. Credits never expire and top-ups start at ₹500, so a slow monsoon month simply carries forward. Full breakdown on the pricing page.

We would not make full voice ordering your first workflow, and it is fair to say so. Spoken orders carry variants, spice levels, substitutions, jain/no-onion-garlic requests, and address confirmation — every one of those is a place where a wrong item reaches the kitchen and you eat the cost. What works reliably from day one is enquiry capture: the agent answers menu, price, timing, and delivery-zone questions, takes the customer's details, and sends the menu plus a WhatsApp thread where the order can be confirmed in writing before anything hits the kitchen. Once that is stable and you trust the transcripts, we can extend it toward ordering for your repeat items.

Yes — that is usually the cheapest way to start. You keep your existing restaurant number and set busy/no-answer forwarding on it, so the AI only picks up when the line is engaged or nobody reaches the handset in time, which is the situation you already know from a dinner rush. Nothing changes on your printed cards, Google listing, or aggregator profiles. If you would rather run a separate line for bookings and party enquiries, we can supply a number at ₹2,000 per 30 days, auto-debited from your credits. Either way you get the caller's number and a summary on WhatsApp, so a missed call stops being a lost table.

Yes — the Payments agent can send a payment link inside the conversation, and Dvaarik takes no commission on what you collect. In practice the agent captures date, time, guest count, veg/non-veg split, and budget, then sends a WhatsApp link for the deposit amount you set. You also set the rule for what happens if it goes unpaid — hold the slot for two hours, then release it, or escalate to the manager. Read how the link flow works on the payments page, and how slot-locking and reminders work on the booking page.

No — mixed-language calls are the normal case in Indian restaurants, not the exception. The agent handles 22 scheduled Indian languages plus Hinglish, Tenglish, and Tanglish, and follows the caller when they switch mid-sentence rather than forcing them back into one language. For a restaurant that matters most on party enquiries, where the person calling for a 40-guest function will negotiate in their comfort language and give you the guest count in English. You can also fix the greeting language per outlet — a Hyderabad branch can open in Telugu while another opens in Hindi. More on the multilingual page.

If almost all your volume arrives through aggregator tablets and walk-ins, and the phone rings only a few times a day, this will not pay for itself. The Care Plan — list ₹12,000 per month, ₹5,000 per month at the founding rate locked for 6 months, required for the first 3 months and optional from month 4 — plus credits needs to be earned back by calls that actually carry revenue, so a small counter-service outlet with no reservations and no party business is a poor fit; a WhatsApp catalogue would serve you better. It pays back when you have party and bulk enquiries worth thousands each, direct delivery you do not want to hand to an aggregator, table reservations, or more than one outlet sharing a number. If you are unsure, tell us roughly how many calls you miss between 12–3pm and 7–11pm and we will say plainly whether it is worth it. See how restaurants use it on the restaurants page.