Guide · AI Receptionists
Only one AI receptionist in our dataset pushes to-go orders into a restaurant POS
If the job is taking phone orders straight into Toast, Square, Clover, or Olo, the field collapses to a single name — and the reservations-focused alternative doesn't touch your POS at all.
If the buying question is literally “which AI phone system drops a to-go order into my point-of-sale,” the answer in this dataset is short: Loman, and nobody else. It is the only vendor whose published integration list names restaurant POS and online-ordering systems — Toast, SpotOn, Clover, Square, Olo, and OpenTable — the stack you’d actually need to capture an order on the phone and have it print in the kitchen.
That isn’t a ranking; it’s a filter. Twenty-four vendors sit in this index. The integration fields are full of Zapier, HubSpot, Salesforce, Calendly, Clio, GoHighLevel, and generic “100+ integrations” or “200+ integrations” claims. Exactly one — Loman — lists Toast and Olo by name; no other vendor in the dataset names a single restaurant POS or online-ordering system. So before you compare price or call quality, the field is already down to one if order injection is the requirement.
What Loman costs
| Plan | Monthly | Overage | Setup | POS / ordering integrations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $199 | none (vendor-stated) | $149 one-time | Toast, SpotOn, Clover, Square, Olo, OpenTable |
| Premium | $399 | none (vendor-stated) | $149 one-time | Toast, SpotOn, Clover, Square, Olo, OpenTable |
Both tiers are flat-rate with no per-minute fee and no overage charge, plus a one-time $149 setup. For a restaurant, the flat structure matters more than it does for a law office: a Friday-night rush won’t generate a usage spike on the invoice, because there is no usage meter. You pay $199 or $399, and a busy month costs the same as a slow one.
The reservations lookalike that doesn’t touch your POS
The vendor people reach for next is Slang.ai, also built for the restaurant vertical. But read its integration list and the difference is the whole story: OpenTable, SevenRooms, Yelp, and Tripleseat. Those are reservations, waitlist, and events tools — front-of-house booking, not order capture. There is no Toast, no Square, no Clover, no Olo on the list. Slang.ai will book a table; it will not send a to-go order to your kitchen printer.
It also costs more for the privilege. Slang.ai publishes Core at $399/mo and Premium at $599/mo, both per location, with Spanish answering a $99/mo add-on on Core (included on Premium). Loman’s $199 Starter comes in at roughly half Slang.ai’s cheapest plan ($199 against $399), and Loman’s top $399 tier matches the entry price of Slang.ai.
| Loman | Slang.ai | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry plan | $199/mo | $399/mo (per location) |
| Top published plan | $399/mo | $599/mo (per location) |
| POS / order injection | Toast, SpotOn, Clover, Square, Olo | none published |
| Reservations | OpenTable | OpenTable, SevenRooms, Tripleseat |
| Spanish | not published | included on Premium; +$99/mo on Core |
The two products only look like competitors because they share a vertical. On the specific job in the question — push the order into the POS — they aren’t competing at all. One does it; the other does a different, adjacent thing well.
Where the rest of the field lands
It’s worth being precise about why no third name appears. Several vendors carry the building blocks for an integration without naming a restaurant POS: Thoughtly advertises “200+ integrations” and two-way CRM sync, NextPhone “100+ integrations,” and Synthflow lists HubSpot, Salesforce, and Zapier. In principle a Zapier hop could move data somewhere. But none of them publish a native Toast, Square, Clover, or Olo connector — and “you could probably duct-tape it” is not the same as a supported order-to-POS path. For a kitchen that needs the ticket to be right every time, the published, named integration is the only one that counts.
How to read this
If your AI receptionist’s job is reservations and call deflection, Slang.ai is a legitimate restaurant-native option at $399–$599/mo per location — just don’t expect it to write to your POS. If the job is taking orders on the phone and dropping them straight into Toast, SpotOn, Clover, Square, or Olo, this dataset surfaces exactly one vendor built for it: Loman, at $199–$399/mo flat, no overage, plus a $149 setup. On that requirement the shortlist isn’t a comparison — it’s a single name, and the honest move is to demo it against your actual POS before signing.