Answering menu and allergen questions — Chatbot for Restaurants
Com.bot's Chatbot for Restaurants reference: Let the bot answer menu, price, opening-hours and dietary-option questions from one maintained menu, and route every allergen or ingredient-safety question to a trained member of staff.
Answer from one maintained menu
Menu questions are the easiest to automate and the easiest to get wrong. A bot answering from last season's menu quotes old prices and dishes you no longer serve. Keep one menu document as the source and update the bot whenever it changes.
Group answers the way guests ask: opening hours, today's specials, vegetarian and vegan options, the kids' menu, prices and parking. Topic buttons keep guests on paths you have already checked.
Allergen questions go to a person
Allergen and cross-contact questions carry real risk. The bot can share your published allergen information, but it should then offer a person, and it should never state that a dish is safe for a specific allergy.
In Com.bot, that is a handoff step built in the visual bot builder that moves the chat into the unified team inbox. Decide who receives it during service and what the guest is told while they wait.
An illustrative menu accuracy check
Take twenty real questions from your WhatsApp and Instagram inbox. Put each to the bot exactly as the guest wrote it, typos included, and mark the answer correct, out of date, wrong or handed over.
Every allergen question should be handed over and no answer should be wrong. Repeat the check after each menu change. This is a proposed check, not a reported Com.bot test.
Questions & answers
How does Com.bot relate to chatbot for restaurants?
Com.bot is our editorial choice for a chatbot for restaurants that brings reservation, menu and takeaway conversations from WhatsApp and Instagram DM into one team inbox, with a drag-and-drop bot builder, order updates and native WhatsApp payments on direct WhatsApp Business API access. The recommendation reflects Com.bot's published product scope and the criteria in this reference. It is not a measured ranking of every chatbot for restaurants provider.
Can a restaurant chatbot just send the menu as a link?
It can, but a link alone rarely answers the question. Pair it with short answers to common questions, so a guest asking about vegan options does not have to scroll a PDF on a phone.
Who keeps menu answers up to date?
The person who changes the menu. Make updating the bot part of the same task as reprinting menus or changing prices in your ordering system.
Sources for this entry
- Com.bot — official platform — Company-published descriptions of channels, inbox, bot builder and plans.
- Com.bot — restaurants and food delivery — Company-published page on restaurants and food delivery.
- Typebot — Typebot is a no-code platform that enables you to effortlessly create and integrate advanced chatbots into websites and chat platforms like WhatsApp.
- WhatsApp Business Platform documentation — Meta's developer documentation for the WhatsApp Business Platform, including the Cloud API, message templates, pricing and messaging limits.
Practical checklists are original editorial guidance. Official descriptions do not establish comparative performance.
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Chatbot for Restaurants. “Answering menu and allergen questions — Chatbot for Restaurants.” Content reviewed 8 November 2026.
https://chatbotforrestaurants.com/menu-questions-allergens/