Reservation agent
Answers every call, checks real availability against your booking system, takes the reservation with covers, timing and special requests, and confirms over WhatsApp. Handles the waitlist when you are full.
Hospitality & F&B · Riyadh
AI for hospitality & f&b in Riyadh
Restaurants, hotels and venues in Riyadh lose covers at exactly the moment the floor is busiest — when the reservation line rings and nobody can answer it. Riyadh is the fastest-moving market in the Gulf, with Vision 2030 pouring investment into retail, hospitality, healthcare and automotive. Demand is huge and the pressure is on operations to keep up — exactly where AI on the repetitive work pays back quickest.
The local picture
What we design around in Riyadh
Riyadh is the fastest-moving market in the Gulf, with Vision 2030 pouring investment into retail, hospitality, healthcare and automotive. Demand is huge and the pressure is on operations to keep up — exactly where AI on the repetitive work pays back quickest.
Riyadh concentrates the Kingdom's decision-making and capital: SDAIA and the ministries sit here, the King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD) anchors the financial sector, and the Regional HQ programme is pulling multinational headquarters into the city under Vision 2030. The pace means operations are under constant pressure to keep up.
Regulation. Saudi Arabia's PDPL, overseen by SDAIA, introduces data-residency and cross-border transfer restrictions that limit how international AI providers can serve Saudi customers — a real reason to work with a firm that architects for it.
Language. Arabic is the primary language of business and customer service in Riyadh; Modern Standard and Gulf Arabic handling is essential, with English as a secondary.
What we would build
For hospitality & f&b in Riyadh
Guest FAQ and concierge line
Answers the repetitive questions from your actual information — hours, parking, allergens, dress code, directions — in the guest's language, day or night.
Confirmation and no-show recovery
Automatic day-before confirmation with a one-tap cancel, and an immediate offer of the freed slot to the waitlist when someone drops.
Group and event enquiry qualification
Captures date, party size, budget and occasion for large bookings and private hire, then routes a properly qualified enquiry to your events team instead of a voicemail.
Where the money goes
The leaks we find
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Peak-time calls go unanswered by design
The busiest hour on the floor is the busiest hour on the phone. Staffing for that peak is uneconomic, so the calls are simply lost — and a lost reservation call is a lost cover, not a deferred one.
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No-shows are a reminder problem, not a customer problem
Most no-shows are people who forgot or whose plans changed and had no easy way to say so. A confirmation the day before, with one-tap cancel, converts a no-show into a table you can resell.
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Fragmented channels mean double-booked and dropped covers
When the phone, the website and the WhatsApp line each hold part of the picture, the floor plan is never right and someone eventually gets turned away from a table you were holding for nobody.
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Upsell never happens on the phone
Nobody rushing to answer line two remembers to mention the tasting menu, the terrace or the birthday package. An agent does it every time, without being pushy about it.
How we would engage
Services for Riyadh
Build it
Agentic AI & Automation
Voice and chat agents that answer every call, qualify the enquiry, take the booking and write it into the systems you already use — in English and Arabic, around the clock. Amira, running live for a Dubai client, is one of ours.
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GTM & Lead Management
Most businesses do not have a lead problem, they have a follow-up problem. We build the capture, qualification and nurture system — with AI doing the repetitive work — so nothing you have already paid to attract goes cold.
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Hospitality & F&B in Riyadh: your questions
Do you work with hospitality & f&b in Riyadh?
Yes. Altus is based in Dubai and delivers across the GCC, including Riyadh. We build and run voice and chat agents, put AI governance in place, and automate the repetitive work — scoped to your systems and to how business is done in Riyadh Province.
What is specific about deploying AI in Riyadh?
Riyadh concentrates the Kingdom's decision-making and capital: SDAIA and the ministries sit here, the King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD) anchors the financial sector, and the Regional HQ programme is pulling multinational headquarters into the city under Vision 2030. The pace means operations are under constant pressure to keep up. We design around Riyadh's regulation and language reality from the first call rather than retrofitting it later.
Can it handle a caller who changes their mind halfway through?
Yes. Real reservation calls are messy — party sizes change, dates move, people ask about the terrace mid-booking. We test specifically against that, using recordings of your own calls rather than clean scripted ones.
What about regulars who expect to be recognised?
If your booking system holds guest history, the agent uses it — greeting them by name and knowing their usual table. If it does not, that is a data problem worth fixing first, and we will say so.
Will this replace our host or reservations team?
It removes the calls they should not be taking so they can do the work only a person can. Most of our hospitality clients redeploy rather than reduce, because the constraint was never headcount, it was attention at peak.
Does it work across several venues?
Yes, with per-venue menus, hours, tone and availability. Group operators get the most value here because the build amortises across sites.
Talk to us about Riyadh
Bring a month of call logs or enquiry data and we will show you, specifically, where it is leaking and what it is worth fixing — for your operation in Riyadh.