Walk into any independent restaurant on a Friday night, and you'll see the same thing: two servers covering ten tables, a line at the host stand, and somewhere behind the pass, a phone ringing that nobody is going to answer. Most operators know they miss calls. Fewer have actually run the math on what that costs. The Numbers Behind the Problem The typical independent restaurant in the US handles somewhere between 20 and 60 inbound calls per day, depending on volume, day of week, and season. Most of those calls arrive during exactly the hours staff are least available to answer them — the 90-minute dinner rush window when everyone is heads-down on the floor. Studies of restaurant call patterns consistently show a 15–25% miss rate during peak service. For a 50-seat restaurant running 30 calls per day, that's 5–7 unanswered calls. A percentage of those are hangups with no callback. Some are reservation requests. Some are takeout orders. The revenue math isn't complicated.…