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Giving restaurants back the time that belongs to their guests.

A warm Italian trattoria exterior

Most restaurants lose guests before they even walk in.

The phone rings during service. Your best waiter picks up because no one else will. For the next four minutes, the guests already sitting in your restaurant don't have a waiter.

This is the central problem. The work that brings guests in — calls, emails, bookings — competes directly with the work of taking care of them. We started Elyra because we kept seeing this trade-off treated as inevitable. It isn't.

We do three things. First, we catch everything coming in. Every call answered, every email replied to, every booking processed — without pulling anyone off the floor.

Second, we make the visit better. Your staff knows the returning couple's preferred table and the regular's shellfish allergy before anyone sits down.

Third, we bring guests back. The follow-ups, the seasonal invitations, the personal touches that turn a single visit into a habit.

Your team does what they got into this business to do. We do the rest.

Felix Glasenapp, Co-Founder & CEO of Elyra
“Restaurants don't have a technology problem. They have a time problem. Every hour spent on the phone is an hour not spent with guests. We built Elyra to give that time back.”

Felix Glasenapp

Co-Founder & CEO, Elyra