A sushi pickup order averages 4 or 5 rolls with Japanese names, and one misheard item can turn a $50 to $70 order into a remake at the pass. Siya knows your menu and the mangled versions of it, quotes honest pickup times, and answers in one ring while your hands are in rice, from $19 per month.
"The eel one." "Toro... something." "That dragon roll with the stuff on top." Sushi menus get mispronounced on the phone more than any other cuisine, and a rushed mishear becomes an expensive remake or a one-star story.
Timing is the other half. Rolls are made to order, callers want an exact ready time, and lunch arrives as a burst of small orders while the chef's gloved hands are full. Nobody de-gloves to answer a third call in a row, so the third caller gets voicemail.
And voicemail does not sell sushi. By the widely cited industry estimate, about 85% of callers who reach voicemail order somewhere else instead of calling back. A couple of missed lunch calls a day adds up fast at a $25 to $70 ticket; run your numbers in the missed-call calculator.
Every feature below is included on every plan, from the $19 Starter up.
Menu aliases map "spicy tuna", "tekka maki", and "the eel one" to the right items, and owner-approved learned vocabulary adds the nicknames your callers actually use, so accuracy climbs every week.
Siya quotes the prep time you set, tells the caller when the order will be ready, and timestamps it on the board so the pass and the customer agree on the same clock.
She reads the whole order back with the tax-included total before hanging up. Mishears get caught on the call, not when the bag is already packed.
Siya switches languages mid-call the moment the caller does, at no extra cost on any plan. Tourists, students, and grandparents all get taken care of.
Repeat-caller memory recognizes the Thursday omakase-box regular by number and can rebuild their last order in seconds, exactly like your best counter person would.
Orders land on the live order board with printable tickets. Robocalls are screened out, and callers who need a person are transferred to the counter or your cell.
Straight talk: AskSiya does not push orders into your POS yet. Orders land on the dashboard order board with printable tickets. Every feature is on every plan from $19/month, with auto-upgrade at 110% usage so calls never stop. See pricing or tour the full restaurant product.
Siya works from your menu plus aliases: "the eel one" can map to unagi nigiri, "spicy tuna" to the right roll. When she is unsure she asks a clarifying question instead of guessing, and owner-approved learned vocabulary adds new nicknames over time.
Yes. You set standard prep times in her instructions - say 15 minutes for small orders, 25 for platters - and she quotes them consistently. Each order is timestamped on the board so the kitchen sees the same promise the caller heard.
Yes. Siya answers in English and switches automatically when a caller speaks Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, or any of 100+ languages, mid-call. Included on every plan.
Not yet. Orders land on the dashboard order board with printable tickets for the pass. If POS injection is a hard requirement, see the honest trade-offs in our restaurant AI roundup.
$19/month for 60 minutes of calls, $79 for 200, $199 for 600, with 2 months free on annual billing and every feature on every plan. One saved $55 platter order covers nearly three months of Starter. The 7-day trial needs no card.
