Restaurant websites get three kinds of inbound chat. Hours. Menu and allergen questions. Reservation requests. The first two are easy to mishandle, the third is where revenue actually lives. A generic chatbot will happily answer Yes we have a vegan menu and then send the visitor back to the booking form to start over.

SleekAI is built to close the loop. The bot reads the Restaurant Reservations plugin's rtb-booking custom post type, the booking schedule and exception rules, the party-size limits, and the location postmeta if you are using the multi-location integration. It can answer about availability for tonight at 7pm for a party of four and then create the booking record on the visitor's behalf, the same way a host would.

The bot also reads your menu data, whether you store it as a custom post type, a structured page, or a JSON file. Allergen lookups, dish descriptions, and price ranges all become inline answers, so the same conversation that started with do you have gluten-free pasta ends with a confirmed reservation on the books.

Restaurants are uniquely demanding for chatbots. Every conversation has at least three implicit requirements: time, party size, and dietary fit. A generic bot answers around them.

It says Yes we have gluten-free options and stops. It says The booking form is on the reservations page and stops. It says We open at 5pm and stops.

None of those are wrong, but none of them are a booking. A booking is the only outcome that pays for the chatbot. SleekAI is built around that outcome.

It reads the schedule and exception rules the Restaurant Reservations plugin already enforces, so when it says 7:45 is open, that is true at the moment of the message. It reads existing rtb-booking entries to respect party-size and dining-block maximums, so it never overpromises a slot that is gone. It reads your menu data, so when a visitor says we have a gluten allergy the bot quotes the three risottos, two mains, and one dessert that are already gluten-free as plated.

And it can write a real rtb-booking entry through the same hooks the plugin form uses, so the host sees the new reservation in the admin the same way they see any other. The kitchen sees the dietary flag. The standard email goes out automatically.

The visitor never has to leave the chat. The bot becomes a competent host, not a glorified FAQ widget.