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Encore Agent
Fill the night. Skip the discount.

A soft Tuesday quietly costs you $1,100 in margin — every week.

For Restaurants, bars & taprooms with slow weeknights

What Encore Agent does

Encore Agent watches your reservation book for nights running light, then personally invites back the right regulars — starting with no discount at all. It holds back a slice of every cohort untouched, so the covers it reports are the ones it actually caused.

Seats are perishable. The night passes, the staff is already paid, and the margin is simply gone. Meanwhile about 7% of your guests drive up to half your orders — and nobody notices when one of them quietly stops coming in.

Plugs into

ResyOpenTableToastWorks with any POS

Built for

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Encore Agent

  • It watches the gap
  • It invites, then earns
  • It reports honestly
60%Of restaurant revenue is repeat guests
7%Of guests drive up to half your orders

Plugs into

  • Resy
  • OpenTable
  • Toast
  • Works with any POS

Where the money goes

Three leaks Encore Agent closes

Leak No. 1

The night that runs light

Tuesday is 22 covers short. Rent, prep and the schedule are already committed, so that gap isn't lost revenue — it's lost contribution, near $50 a cover. Nobody sees it until the P&L lands three weeks later.

$1,100 / nightcontribution lost, est.
Leak No. 2

The regular who quietly left

Roughly 7% of guests drive up to half your order volume. When one drifts away there's no alert and no empty chair with their name on it — just a slow bleed you'd need a spreadsheet and a free afternoon to catch.

50% of volumefrom just 7% of guests
Leak No. 3

The discount you didn't need

Blast tools open with a coupon, so you hand margin to regulars who were coming anyway. On an already-staffed night the seat is worth filling at full price — the discount was never the thing that worked.

$53 vs $374offer cost, same 24 covers
60%Of restaurant revenue is repeat guests
7%Of guests drive up to half your orders
$20KNY penalty per unsolicited text
100%Of your guest list scored, every week

Dollar and percentage figures are industry estimates for independent New York venues, or simulated demo results. Your real baseline gets measured on site during onboarding.

How it works

Three steps, no new software

01

It watches the gap.

Each morning it reads your book against a normal night and flags where you're running light — five to ten days out, while there's still time to fill it. The trigger is your empty seats, not a stale segment.

02

It invites, then earns.

It ranks who to ask, suppresses anyone already booked or opted out, then climbs a ladder — recognition first, a discount only at T-24h if the gap still holds. Copy respects carrier alcohol rules and local quiet hours.

03

It reports honestly.

A slice of every cohort is held back untouched, so you see the covers the agent actually caused — not everyone who happened to walk in. That number is smaller than a blast tool's. It's also the real one.

Why AgentHood

Built for your room, not a chain

The tools that measure marketing honestly were built for national chains with analytics teams. We built this for the rooms where a light Tuesday is felt personally — a real holdout, honest math, and no discount until the invitation has had its chance.

— Jason PieroniFounder, AgentHood Operators

You approve every word

Nothing this agent says to a guest goes out without your tap. Sensitive moments route to your phone, your voice is set from your own menus and the way you actually talk, and you can turn any behaviour off in one message.

How we work →

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Questions owners ask

How is this different from a blast email tool?
A blast tool sends a coupon to everyone on a calendar. This triggers on your actual covers gap, invites specific named regulars, and opens with recognition rather than a discount — a discount only appears at 24 hours out if the gap is still there.
What's a holdout, and why does it make my numbers look worse?
A slice of each group is deliberately left uncontacted. If they show up anyway, they were always coming, and the agent doesn't claim them. It makes the reported number smaller and correct — which is the only version worth paying for.
Is texting guests legal in New York?
With consent and within quiet hours, yes — and the penalties for getting it wrong are steep, up to $20,000 per unsolicited text. The agent suppresses anyone who hasn't opted in and follows carrier rules on alcohol messaging.

Free discovery call

See Encore Agent run against your own numbers

Start with a 15-minute discovery call. If it’s the right fit, we’ll run a working session at your venue during a slow shift, with the agent pointed at your actual operation.