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AI Voice Ordering: questions to ask
The nine questions
- Does an AI do this, or does a rule? If the answer is “when X happens it sends Y”, you are buying automation, and it should not cost AI prices.
- Does it send, or does it draft? Ask for the sentence on their page that says it acts on its own.
- Does it do it on its own on this plan, or on the one above? The setting that lets it act without you is often a tier up from the entry price.
- What does it do with the hard cases? Ask what it holds back for you, and what happens to what it cannot resolve.
- What is the cap, and what happens past it? Work out the bill at the volume you actually do, not at the included allowance.
- What is the unit? Per month, per user, per location, per minute, per credit or per resolved ticket.
- Who does the setup, and is it in the price?
- What happens to the changes it made when I stop paying? Some tools make changes that stay only while you subscribe.
- Who carries the legal side? For calling and texting customers, ask who handles consent and opt-outs.
What to check for this job
- This is one of the most autonomous jobs on the map: the AI takes the whole order and sends it to your point of sale with nobody retyping it. Check it works with the register you already use.
- Most are sold through a sales call. 4 of the 15 can be bought with a sign-up form, and published plans run from $159 to $349 a month.
- Ask to hear it handle the hard orders live: half-and-half, heavy modifiers, strong accents and spoken numbers such as quantities and addresses.
- Drive-through ordering is sold to chains and is a separate purchase from phone ordering for one restaurant.
- Almost none of these products has public reviews, so ask for a restaurant like yours you can call.
Notes
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