{"slug": "show-hn-roal-ai-phone-host-for-restaurants-that-builds-itself-from-your-site", "title": "Show HN: ROAL – AI phone host for restaurants that builds itself from your site", "summary": "ROAL launched as an AI phone host for restaurants that builds itself from a restaurant's website or Google Maps listing in about two minutes, reads the live menu to take pickup and delivery orders, and charges $0.90 only when a confirmed order reaches the kitchen screen. The host answers questions on hours, parking and allergens from the restaurant's own pages, supports callers speaking other languages while printing tickets in the restaurant's language, and routes catering, complaints and manager requests to a person. Restaurants can try the host free by pasting a link and test-calling it before forwarding their number, which ROAL says takes a few minutes with most carriers.", "body_md": "### Takes pickup & delivery orders\n\nReads from your live menu, confirms items, modifiers, name and phone, and quotes a ready time.\n\nAI phone host for restaurants\n\nPaste your website or Google Maps link. ROAL learns your menu and hours, builds your phone host, and has it call you, all in about two minutes.\n\nWhat it does\n\nOne host that picks up when your team can't, takes the order the way you would, and gets out of the way when a person is needed.\n\nOpening hours, parking, allergens, what's in the special. Answers come from your menu and settings, not guesses.\n\nCallers can talk in the language they're most comfortable in. The ticket still prints in yours.\n\nConfirmed orders land on your kitchen screen with items, notes, and the caller's details. No scribbled notes.\n\nCatering, complaints, and manager requests go to a person, with a summary of what the caller needs.\n\nQuestions it didn't know land in an inbox. Add the answer once and the next caller gets it.\n\nHow it works\n\nYour website, your Google Maps listing, or the restaurant name and city. That's the whole form.\n\nROAL reads your public pages, pulls items and prices, and picks up your hours and address.\n\nOrder something. Ask when you close. Change your mind halfway. Pick the voice and the name.\n\nClaim your host, get a dedicated line, and forward your restaurant number when you're ready.\n\nYour dashboard\n\nSee every call the host handled, read the transcript, and watch orders arrive. Change the menu or the hours and the next caller hears it.\n\nROAL picks up when your team can't, takes the order from your live menu, and hands it straight to the kitchen.\n\nRush hours are when the phone rings most and staff can't pick up. The busiest moments are the ones you can least afford to miss.\n\nEvery unanswered call is an order that goes somewhere else. Hungry callers rarely leave a voicemail and wait.\n\nStaff pulled off the floor to answer phones means guests at the counter and tables wait. Nobody wins.\n\nPricing\n\nFAQ\n\nShort answers. If yours isn't here, email [vamsi@tryroal.com](mailto:vamsi@tryroal.com) and a person replies.\n\nIt answers your restaurant's phone, takes pickup orders from your live menu, answers questions about hours and the menu, and sends a ticket to your kitchen screen.\n\nPaste your website or Google Maps link and you can talk to your own host in about a minute. Going live means forwarding your number, which takes a few minutes with most phone carriers. [Try it free](https://tryroal.com/try)\n\nCallers speak normally and the host responds in a natural voice. You pick the voice and the name. Try a call yourself before you decide.\n\nEdit the menu in your dashboard. The next call uses the updated items and prices. Sold-out items are not offered.\n\nCatering, complaints, and manager requests are handed to your team. The host does not invent an order to end the call.\n\n$0.90 when a pickup order is confirmed and the ticket reaches your kitchen. If it does not become an order, you do not pay. [See pricing](https://tryroal.com/pricing)\n\nPaste your link, call it from your browser, keep it if you like it. $0.90 per completed order, nothing otherwise.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-roal-ai-phone-host-for-restaurants-that-builds-itself-from-your-site", "canonical_source": "https://tryroal.com", "published_at": "2026-10-29 14:08:16+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-29 14:17:01.294620+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-products", "artificial-intelligence", "natural-language-processing"], "entities": ["ROAL", "Google Maps", "tryroal.com"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-roal-ai-phone-host-for-restaurants-that-builds-itself-from-your-site", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-roal-ai-phone-host-for-restaurants-that-builds-itself-from-your-site.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-roal-ai-phone-host-for-restaurants-that-builds-itself-from-your-site.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-roal-ai-phone-host-for-restaurants-that-builds-itself-from-your-site.jsonld"}}