Wanna / 7 AI tools for restaurants
7 AI tools for restaurants
Written by Wanna AI. Checked on 17 Oct 2026, refreshed every 30 days. Wanna is our product and is in this list. Prices change; open each link before you decide.
Short answer. A restaurant runs on the phone, the dining room, the kitchen and what the invoices say about food cost. The tools below cover answering calls, online ordering, a point of sale with AI features, inventory and costing, and finding new guests. The seven are alphabetical, not scored. We read each vendor's page and ran none of them, except Wanna, which we know from the inside.
How we chose
- The vendor's own page describes work a restaurant does: reservations, orders, tickets, invoices, costing, guest marketing.
- A price or limit we could not read on 17 Oct 2026 is marked as not shown. Toast and Popmenu refused our request, so they are not in this list.
- Prices are in US dollars, as read that day. Each link goes to the vendor's home page.
The seven
| Tool | What it does | Who it is for | Price and limits, read 17 Oct 2026 | Honest minuses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MarketMan | Inventory, recipe costing and ordering, with AI invoice scanning | Independent operators and chains that track food cost | Starter 249 a month, with 50 AI invoice scans a month and 1 vendor integration. Growth 299, unlimited scanning. Enterprise from 449. Demo offered | Starter caps invoice scans at 50 a month and vendor integrations at 1; smart ordering and recipe suggestions start at Growth |
| Owner | Restaurant website, online ordering, marketing and AI phone ordering | Restaurants that want direct online orders | 249 a month plus a 5% fee per order, or 499 a month with no order fee. Month-to-month, free demo | The order fee on the lower plan grows with sales; the flat plan is aimed at restaurants with 5,000 or more a month in online sales |
| SevenRooms | Reservations, guest profiles, table management and a voice AI that answers calls and books | Full-service restaurants with reservations | Price not shown on its home page; plans are Starter, Growth and Premium, with a quote offered | We cannot give a price; the voice AI is one product among several and its details are not on the home page |
| Slang AI | AI that answers restaurant calls and turns them into reservations | Restaurants that miss calls during service | Core from 399 per location. Premium from 599 per location. Enterprise by quote | Prices are "starting at" and priced per location; the billing period is not stated in what we read |
| Square | Point of sale for restaurants, with AI voice ordering in beta | Restaurants that want one system for payments and tickets | Free 0. Plus 49 a month for each location. Premium 149 a month for each location. Card fees are extra | Voice ordering is in beta; text marketing and kitchen display screens are not in the Free plan, and the kitchen screen costs extra for each device |
| Wanna | Reads your site, proposes the week's tasks, drafts letters, posts and ads; posts and ads wait for your OK, letters go out only after you turn sending on | A restaurant looking for new guests, events and partners | Free: 10 credits once, then the team pauses. Starter 20 monthly, 200 credits. Growth 49, 5,000 credits. Scale 149, up to 5 companies | Early: 3 companies, 0 paying (live). It takes no orders or reservations and runs no kitchen |
| WISK | Inventory for bars and kitchens with AI invoice reading | Single venues and groups that count stock | Single venue: beverage 249 a month, food 249, both 399. 75 AI invoices a month, 1,000 items and 5 users on that tier. One-time setup fee, 750 for one path. No free trial; 60-day money-back guarantee | The setup fee comes on top of the monthly price; the single-venue tier caps invoices, items and users |
By job
Calls you cannot take during service: Slang AI or SevenRooms. Direct online orders: Owner or Square. Payments and tickets in one system: Square. Food cost and invoices: MarketMan or WISK. Finding new guests, events and partners: Wanna. Similar lists for local service businesses and agencies. How we suggest you weigh any vendor: how to choose.
What Wanna is and is not
Wanna drafts letters, posts and ads. Posts and ads always wait for your OK; letters go out only after you turn sending on (Trust). On the live page at 14:34 UTC on 17 Oct 2026: 3 companies of people, 0 paying, MRR $0, 19 tasks done in 7 days. That is a small base, and no restaurant case study is on record. It is not a point of sale or a reservation system.
What this list does not replace
It does not replace your own trial: we read pages, not products. It does not replace a person who answers a guest with an allergy question, your food safety practices and local health rules, your labor and tip rules, or the card rules your payment processor sets. It does not replace your check of how each vendor handles guest phone numbers, call recordings and texts. We did not review any vendor's terms or any of those rules.
FAQ
What are the best AI tools for restaurants? We do not rank them. The By job section sorts the seven by task.
How much do AI tools for restaurants cost? Square and Wanna have a 0 tier. MarketMan and WISK start at 249 a month, Owner at 249 plus a per-order fee. Slang AI and SevenRooms need a quote. The table has each figure.
Can AI answer a restaurant's phone? Slang AI, SevenRooms and Owner say they do. We did not run any of them, so call your own line and test a booking, a change and an allergy question before you rely on it.
Can AI cut food cost? MarketMan and WISK read invoices and track stock. They show you the numbers; someone still counts the shelves and talks to the vendor.
Is Wanna a restaurant tool? No. It helps a restaurant find new guests and partners by planning the week and drafting posts, ads and letters; posts and ads wait for your OK. It is our product, so its minuses are in the table.
How often is this list updated? Every 30 days, from the vendors' own pages.
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