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We let an AI answer a Limerick restaurant's phone for six months. Here are the real numbers.

Most of what is written about AI phone answering for restaurants is a vendor quoting a survey. This is different: it is the record of one phone line in Limerick, Ireland, taken from the database, including the parts that went wrong. I am the founder of Hostly (hostly.ie), an AI host that answers th…

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  1. 2026-11-12 13:37 · DEV Community — AI
    We let an AI answer a Limerick restaurant's phone for six months. Here are the real numbers.

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