Happy Hour & Specials Bot Template

The conversation, step by step

These are the messages and questions in the template as it comes. Words in brackets are filled in from your business details or from the visitor's earlier answers. A visitor sees only the steps that match the buttons they choose, and you can change any wording, add steps or remove them in the flow builder.

1. Check out what's happening at [Restaurant Name]!
   • Happy Hour
   • Weekly Specials
   • Make a Reservation
2. Happy Hour [Happy Hour Days]: [Happy Hour Times] [Happy Hour Deals (e.g. $5 drafts, half-price apps)]
3. Weekly Specials [Weekly Specials (e.g. Monday: Taco Night, Tuesday: Trivia)]
4. Want to join us?
   • Make a Reservation
   • Get Notified of Specials
   • Back to Specials
5. Enter your email and we'll keep you in the loop on upcoming specials and events: The visitor types an email address.
6. The visitor is saved as a lead, tagged:
   • specials_subscriber
   • email_list
7. You're on the list! We'll let you know about upcoming specials and events at [Restaurant Name].
8. Call us at [Phone Number] to reserve your table! We'd love to see you.

What you get with each lead

Every lead this template collects appears in your Alma leads inbox with the answers the visitor gave and these tags, so you can sort and follow up: specials_subscriber, email_list. Alma emails you when a new lead arrives. On the Growth plan and up you can also send leads to other software through Zapier, and the Agency plan adds webhooks.

Questions your flow does not cover

A template answers the paths it was built for. To answer other questions in the visitor's own words, add AI answering for $25 a month: it replies from business information you provide as text, which the Alma team loads into your bot. The article on how a knowledge base chatbot works explains what to write.

For more on using a chatbot in this kind of business, see our page on chatbots for restaurants.

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