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Chef: Restaurant WhatsApp AI Agent

12 minEasyRestaurants

A full-service AI restaurant employee on WhatsApp — takes orders, books reservations, upsells, runs loyalty, handles complaints, and remembers every customer's preferences. Speaks 17 Arabic dialects plus English, French, Turkish and Spanish.

Use cases

  • Taking delivery and pickup orders directly in WhatsApp
  • Managing table reservations and waitlists
  • Answering menu, allergen and opening-hours questions
  • Pushing confirmed orders to the kitchen dashboard

What this agent is used for

  • restaurant WhatsApp AI agent
  • WhatsApp ordering bot restaurant
  • AI table reservation assistant
  • restaurant chatbot Arabic
  • food delivery WhatsApp automation
Business value

Like hiring a full-time WhatsApp restaurant employee: takes orders, upsells, remembers every customer's preferences, and runs loyalty — 24/7, in the customer's own dialect. Restaurants using Chef report faster response, higher average order value, and fewer missed reservations.

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Key features

  • Live WhatsApp Business Cloud API — 24/7 conversational ordering
  • Persistent customer CRM: favorite dishes, allergies, addresses, loyalty
  • Full menu engine — categories, prices, allergens, availability, images
  • Reservations, delivery, pickup & dine-in with branch routing
  • Smart upselling, loyalty points, coupons & re-engagement campaigns
  • Complaint resolution with sentiment detection & human handoff
  • Bilingual reports and analytics on orders, customers, and satisfaction

ROI calculator

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Hours saved
50 hrs
Human cost
$750
Net savings
$701
ROI
1,431%

Pays for itself after roughly 33 tasks.

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Criteria
Wakeeli agent
Human hire
Monthly cost
$49
~$2,500
Availability
24/7, always on
~40 hrs / week
Response time
< 1 second
Minutes to hours
Languages supported
21
Usually 1 – 2
Onboarding time
Minutes
Weeks to months
Scalability
Thousands of parallel chats
One conversation at a time
Sick leave & PTO
None
Regular
Response consistency
Always consistent
Varies with mood & training

Before you install this agent

What your company needs to prepare so this agent works well from day one.

Knowledge required

  • Your twenty most common customer questions with approved answers
  • Current prices, packages or service descriptions
  • Company policies the agent must follow, including escalation

Integrations

  • None required to start

Permissions

  • Read access to the knowledge you upload
  • No write access to your systems by default
  • A named owner who can pause the agent immediately

Kept under human review

  • Any action that moves money or changes a customer record

Default autonomy level

Level 1 — Read only

Retrieves live information from connected systems.

Preparation effort

Plan two to five working days: gather knowledge, test, then launch on one channel.

Data sensitivity

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How installation works

  1. 1Subscribe to Chef
  2. 2Connect your WhatsApp Business Cloud API number
  3. 3Add branches, working hours & delivery zones
  4. 4Import your menu — categories, prices, allergens, images
  5. 5Set tone, dialect, upselling & loyalty rules
  6. 6Test in sandbox, then go live 24/7

What's new

  • Initial release — WhatsApp Cloud API, menu engine, customer CRM, orders, reservations, loyalty, and complaint handling.

Frequently asked questions

Which restaurants is Chef for?▾

Single-location restaurants, chains, cloud kitchens, coffee shops, bakeries, catering companies, and hotel F&B teams. Multi-branch with per-branch menus and delivery zones is supported.

Does Chef take real orders on WhatsApp?▾

Yes — once your WhatsApp Business Cloud API number is connected, Chef parses natural-language orders, confirms totals, captures delivery addresses, and pushes each order into your Orders tab in real time.

How is customer data protected?▾

Each restaurant's data — menu, customers, orders, conversations — is isolated per install via row-level security. Only your team can read or export it.

Is there a free trial?▾

No. Chef does not include a free trial — the subscription is $49/month per location and you can cancel anytime. You can explore the offline demo before subscribing.

Version history

  1. v1.0.0
    2026-07-28
    Initial release — WhatsApp Cloud API, menu engine, customer CRM, orders, reservations, loyalty.

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