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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.

Pricing and launch

Status
Premium add-on
Monthly agent add-on
+$19/mo
Minimum platform plan
Professional
Languages and dialects
Arabic، English، French، Spanish، Turkish، MSA، Syrian، Lebanese، Jordanian، Palestinian، Saudi، Emirati، Kuwaiti، Qatari، Bahraini، Omani، Egyptian، Moroccan، Tunisian، Algerian، Iraqi، Yemeni
Supported channels
WhatsApp Business Requires external approvalWebsite widget Available nowCustom API / webhook Custom integration
Needs an external integration
CRM, booking or payment systems — custom integration
What it is not designed to do
It doesn't make final legal, medical or financial decisions, or promise anything outside your approved knowledge.
Estimated setup complexity
Medium — some channels need external approval
Self-service / managed installation
Available / Available
Human handoff
Supported through escalation rules
Suggested test scenarios
A pricing question, an out-of-scope request, asking for a human
Source code
Source code is not included unless explicitly agreed in a separate written contract.

Estimated recurring total: $68/mo

Estimated first month: $68

On the Professional plan. Prices in USD, taxes excluded. Third-party providers such as Meta, WhatsApp, telephony providers, model providers or other external services may charge separate fees.

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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