Cut Restaurant Labor Costs Without Cutting Service
You aren’t short-staffed. You're short-served. Aedan Rose answers every guest call, books every table, and takes every online order — so your team works the dining room and the line, not the phone.
Free tier, no contract, cancel anytime · Built for independent operators & multi-location groups
The real cost of this problem
A material chunk of every restaurant day goes to tasks that have nothing to do with hospitality — answering "are you open?" questions, taking phone orders, chasing reservation reminders, manually updating online menus, posting schedules to a group chat, mediating shift swaps. Those hours are real labor cost that could be redirected to the floor.
The trade most operators make is to under-staff and let the host stand take longer to answer. Guest experience drops, table turn-times suffer, the front-desk team gets resentful, and the back office still doesn't catch up. Hiring more people fixes nothing because the bottleneck is the work itself, not the count of bodies.
The right play is to remove the work, not to add staff. AI handles the rote conversational work. Your team handles the human work — service, problem-solving, hospitality. Cost goes down, experience goes up.
How Aedan Rose solves it
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AI answers reservations, orders, and "are you open?" 24/7
The agent takes every conversational interaction — booking, ordering, hours, menu questions, allergen questions, gift cards, parking — across your web channels in 100+ languages. Your phone stops ringing and your inbox stops piling up.
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Built-in scheduling, PTO, and shift trades replace 3 separate tools
Publish schedules to staff, handle time-off requests and approvals, blackout dates, shift trades and coverage requests, all inside the platform. No 7shifts, no When I Work, no shared spreadsheet. Permissions enforce who can approve what.
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Operational push notifications keep staff in sync
Order confirmations, reservation reminders, schedule changes, shift-swap approvals all fire as push to the operator mobile app. The team gets the right alerts without you running the broadcast yourself.
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Analytics show which hours of which days are actually worth the labor spend
Peak-time patterns (Business plan and above) tell you when staffing matters and when you're padding the schedule. Revenue analytics roll up by daypart and section so labor decisions are anchored in revenue per hour, not gut feel.
What you get out of the box
- AI conversational agent for reservations, orders, and customer questions, 24/7
- Built-in team scheduling with shift publishing
- Time-off / PTO requests, approvals, and blackout dates
- Shift trades and coverage requests with manager approval
- Role-based permissions (Owner, Manager, Server, Host, Kitchen, Custom)
- Operational push notifications to the operator mobile app
- Peak-time pattern analytics for labor decisions (Business plan)
Every capability above is shipped, in production, and used by operators today. See our pricing page for which plan tier unlocks which feature.
See how many hours a week you can put back on the floor
Frequently asked questions
Are you saying I should fire my hosts?
No. We’re saying your hosts shouldn’t be answering "are you open?" calls. The agent handles the rote conversations. Your team handles the room. Most operators reinvest the saved hours into floor coverage, not headcount cuts.
What plan includes scheduling and PTO?
Employee scheduling is on every plan including Free. Shift trades and PTO require Starter or above. (Both currently ship behind an environment-controlled rollout flag while we finish the mobile-app side.)
Does the agent replace my POS?
No. Aedan Rose handles the conversational layer — reservations, orders intake, customer service — and the back-office (scheduling, payments, analytics). It is not a POS or kitchen display system. The comparison pages explain the boundary.
How quickly can I see labor savings?
The analytics dashboard tracks AI conversation volume from day one, so you can see exactly how many interactions the agent has absorbed and use that as your baseline for re-allocating staff hours.
Will my older staff actually use it?
The schedule view, time-off request, and shift trade flows are mobile-first and built for fast operator use. The agent itself does not require staff training — it is what your guests use, not your team.
Want to be a launch partner?
We're early. Most of the restaurants on the platform are still in launch mode — we'd rather earn proof than fake it. If you'd be willing to be featured in a case study as Aedan Rose pays back in real numbers, we'd love to talk. Email help@aedanrose.ai.
Ready to fix this for your restaurant?
Free plan supports 25 conversations per month — plenty to test the agent against your real reservations and orders. No credit card. Cancel anytime.