Takes the order, start to finish
Reads your menu, takes the takeout or delivery order, repeats it back, and fires it straight to your POS or kitchen (Toast, Square, Clover), with a pay link if you want payment up front.
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Stop losing the rush to voicemail
Your phone rings hardest when the kitchen is slammed. A Modern Mustard Seed voice agent answers every call in a natural human voice, takes the order, books the table, and fires it straight to your POS. Phone orders, reservations, and catching the dinner rush, all without pulling a single person off the floor.
Free, no card. Mr. Mustard forges a host trained on your restaurant, then it answers a live call. Or book a call.
New · Hear it first
Forge mine, free →Hear one trained on your restaurant.
Tell Mr. Mustard your restaurant name and menu. He forges a host that answers in your voice, then it talks to you live or calls your cell. Free, no card. It is the fastest way to hear exactly what your callers would.
For restaurants
Every call during the rush is an order on the line
The phone rings hardest at six o'clock, the exact moment nobody can grab it. Those are takeout orders, tables for tonight, and catering jobs going to the place down the street that did pick up. Your agent answers every one, in your voice, while the kitchen keeps moving.
Books and manages tables
Party size, time, the high chair, the window booth. Reservations land in your system without anyone leaving the floor.
Owns the dinner rush
Six to eight on a Friday, every line lit, every hand full. The agent answers all of them at once so no order rolls to voicemail.
Catches catering and big parties
The high-ticket calls get qualified, captured, and routed to you, instead of getting lost in the weeds of a busy shift.
Answers what everyone asks
Hours, the menu, gluten-free options, parking, "are you open on the Fourth." Answered instantly, in your words.
Upsells like a good server
Adds the drink, the dessert, the family meal deal, naturally, on every order. It pays for itself before the night is over.
Do the rush-hour math
15missed calls a week
$32average takeout ticket
$1,900+walking out the door a month
That is one slow week. Every unanswered call during the rush is an order, a table, or a catering job you already paid to ring the phone. The agent puts that revenue back on the line.
Plugs into what you already run
Works with your POS and ordering stack
ToastSquareCloverOloChowNowDoorDashUber Eats
Already on a different system? If it has an API or an order inbox, the agent connects to it. We confirm your exact setup on the discovery call.
The restaurant leak calculator
What are missed calls costing your restaurant?
Two streams ring your phone: everyday to-go orders and the occasional catering job. Set both to match your spot and see the real number walking out the door while the line stays busy.
To-go, pickup & delivery
20
$35
Catering & large parties
4
$500
65%
Estimated leak
$3,270/ month
$39,242/ year
To-go, pickup & delivery$1,970/mo
Catering & large parties$1,300/mo
A phone agent answers every one of these, day or night, and fires the order to your POS.
What we build
The full restaurant phone stack
Phone Ordering Agent
Answers the line in your voice, reads your menu, takes the full takeout or delivery order, repeats it back, and fires it to your POS or kitchen. Toast, Square, Clover, and Olo all wire in. Takes payment up front with a pay link when you want it.
Reservation and Waitlist Agent
Books tables against your real availability, manages the waitlist, and texts the guest when their table is ready. Party size, timing, and special requests captured without anyone leaving the floor.
Missed-Call Recovery
Every call that still slips through gets an instant text back with your menu and an order link, so a missed ring during the rush becomes an order instead of a lost customer.
Commission-Free Online Ordering
Your own branded ordering page that keeps the 15 to 30 percent the delivery apps take on every ticket. Run it alongside DoorDash and Uber Eats, or steer regulars to it and keep the whole margin.
Catering and Events Funnel
The highest-ticket calls get qualified, captured, and routed straight to you with the details, then followed up by text and email so a big party never falls through the cracks of a busy shift.
Review Engine
A short text after the meal asks happy guests for a Google review and routes an unhappy one to you privately first. More five-star reviews, fewer public surprises, on autopilot.
Franchises & multi-unit operators
Run more than one location? Plug the leak across all of them
The revenue your busiest store loses to a ringing phone, times every store you run. We train the host once on your brand, then roll it out per location with one dashboard that shows the revenue it recovered at each one. Franchisee or multi-unit owner, you run your own phone line, so you do not have to wait on corporate to stop losing orders.
One host, your whole footprint
Trained once on your brand and menu, then deployed to every location. A new store opens and the host is live on its number day one.
Revenue recovered, per location
One dashboard shows how many calls, orders, and catering jobs each store recovered this month. The number that makes the rollout obvious.
Catering capture at every store
The highest-ticket calls are the ones a slammed shift drops. The host qualifies and routes every catering and large-party lead, at all of them, around the clock.
Volume pricing for fleets
Per-location pricing that discounts as your count grows. One contract, one invoice, one point of contact across three locations or forty.
Say a single store leaks about $1,900 a month to missed calls. Ten locations is over $225,000 a year ringing out to the place down the street. Recover a third of it and the rollout has paid for itself many times over.
What this costs
The order-taking system, priced per store
Start free by hearing one trained on your restaurant. This is the full system: it takes to-go and catering orders into your POS, recognizes returning guests, and rolls recovered revenue up per location. Simple per-store pricing, with a 30-day pilot to prove the number before you commit the fleet.
Single or a few stores
Standard
$799/mo per store
Plus $1,000 one-time activation- 1,200 answered calls / mo
- To-go + catering ordering
- Catering lead capture
- Returning-guest recognition
- Operator revenue dashboard
- $0.45 / call over 1,200
25+ stores · most operators
Fleet
$749/mo per store
Activation waived- Everything in Standard
- Fleet rollup dashboard
- Per-location 86 board + specials push
- Multilingual (100+ languages)
- Daily GM briefing
- Priority support
Whole brand, one rollout
Group / enterprise
Custom
Scoped on a call- Every location, one rollout
- POS integration (Olo, Toast, Square)
- Brand-trained voice + guardrails
- Dedicated success manager
- Plan tied to recovered revenue
One recovered catering order a month more than covers a store. Every quote is fixed and in writing, and the 30-day pilot proves the number on your own phones before you roll out the fleet.
Common Questions
Can the AI take restaurant orders and send them to my POS?
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Yes. It reads your menu, takes the full takeout or delivery order, repeats it back to the caller, and sends it to your kitchen or POS. Toast, Square, Clover, and Olo are the common integrations, and it can take payment up front with a pay link if you want it.
Will it handle the dinner rush when every call comes at once?
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That is when it earns its keep. The agent answers every line at the same time, so the Friday-night flood of takeout and reservation calls all get handled instead of rolling to voicemail. There is no hold music and no busy signal.
Can it take reservations and manage a waitlist?
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Yes. It books tables against your real availability, captures party size and special requests, manages the waitlist, and texts the guest when their table is ready. It writes everything into your reservation system so the host stand always has the full picture.
How is this different from DoorDash or Uber Eats?
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The delivery apps take 15 to 30 percent of every order and own your customer. This is your own phone line and your own commission-free ordering page. You keep the margin, the customer data, and the relationship. Most restaurants run both: the apps for discovery, this for the regulars who would rather order direct.
How fast can it go live, and what does it cost?
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Most restaurant systems are live on your number in about two weeks. Pricing is simple and per store: $799 a month with a one-time $1,000 activation, or $749 a month per store across a committed fleet of 25 or more with the activation waived. Enterprise rollouts are custom. That includes to-go and catering ordering, the operator dashboard, and up to 1,200 answered calls a month. One recovered catering order a month more than covers a store, and a 30-day pilot proves the number before you commit.
Does it actually sound human?
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Yes. Natural voice, natural pacing, and your menu in your words. Most callers cannot tell, and the ones who can do not mind, because they got their order taken instead of a voicemail beep.
Do you work with restaurant franchises and multi-unit operators?
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Yes, and multi-unit operators are the best fit for this. We train the AI host once on your brand and menu, then roll it out per location with one dashboard that shows the revenue it recovered at each store. Pricing is per location and discounts by volume, so whether you run three locations or forty it is one contract and one point of contact. Catering and large-party capture, the highest-ticket calls a busy store drops, is where multi-unit operators see the fastest return.
We are a franchisee. Can we add this ourselves, or do we need corporate approval?
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In almost every franchise system the individual operator owns their own phone line and local vendor decisions, so you can add an AI host at the store or group level without waiting on corporate. A few brands mandate a specific ordering stack from headquarters, so we confirm your exact situation on a short call before anything goes live. Most franchisees start with the free forged demo, hear it answer their own restaurant, and roll it out across their locations from there.
Can one voice agent cover all of my locations?
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Yes. The host is trained on your brand once and then deployed to each location on its own number, so every store answers in the same voice with its own hours, menu, and specials. You get a single dashboard across the whole footprint that shows calls answered, orders taken, and catering captured per location, so you can see which stores were leaking the most and how much came back.
Answer every order this month
One discovery call. We scope your phone agent to your menu and your POS, and you stop sending takeout orders, tables, and catering jobs to voicemail. Your number, your brand, your kitchen.