Café website with a reservation chatbot

Starting point

Cafés and restaurants live on atmosphere and appetite, yet many websites offer little more than a PDF menu and a phone number. Reservations happen by phone, often in the middle of service. Calls outside opening hours are simply missed. Guests now expect to request a table quickly, even late in the evening.

Solution

The demo shows a website that puts food and atmosphere front and centre. The menu is readable right on the page and easy to use on a phone. A chatbot walks guests through a reservation in a few steps: date, time, party size and name. The café can take bookings without anyone having to pick up the phone.

Implementation

The demo is built as a static website with Astro, TypeScript and Tailwind CSS. In the demo, the reservation chatbot follows a fixed script and stores no data. In production, we would connect it to a booking or calendar system such as Cal.com and send confirmations by email or WhatsApp via n8n. The menu could be maintained by the team through a simple content management setup.