Business phone system for limited-service restaurants in Butte, MT

How many limited-service restaurants are in Butte, MT?

County Business Patterns counts 35 limited-service restaurants (NAICS 722513, Limited-Service Restaurants) in the Butte-Silver Bow, MT micropolitan area for 2023. Together they reported 630 mid-March employees and $13.2 million of payroll for the year. That ranks 610th of the 925 metro and micropolitan areas where Census published a count for this industry.

With 36,134 residents in the Census 2024 estimate, that is 96.9 limited-service restaurants per 100,000 people, 22.0% above the national rate of 79.4. Establishments average 18.0 employees, 2.1% below the U.S. average of 18.4. Payroll per employee comes to $20,984, in line with the national $20,857.

Establishment size: limited-service restaurants in Butte, MT

Of the limited-service restaurants in Butte, MT that had employees in March 2023, 11.8% had fewer than five (the U.S. share is 24.3%). 29.4% had fewer than ten. Small teams usually share the phone: the person who answers is often also serving a customer or doing the job, which is when calls get missed.

What limited-service restaurants in Butte, MT use the phone for

Counter-service restaurants take phone orders and catering requests while serving a line of customers. Calls need to be answered quickly or captured for a callback.

Typical inbound and outbound calls for limited-service restaurants in Butte, MT:

• A customer calls in a lunch order.
• A delivery driver calls for directions.
• A customer calls about an order mistake.

Calls after closing time

After-hours callers usually want hours or catering information.

Callata transcribes voicemail and triages it for urgency, so the first callback in the morning can go to the caller who needs it most.

What a phone system costs a limited-service restaurant in Butte, MT

The average limited-service restaurant in Butte, MT has 18.0 employees, so an 18-person team is a reasonable benchmark. On a per-user plan that headcount sets the bill: $449.10 a month on Ooma Office Pro or $540.00 on RingCentral RingEX Core at list price (checked September 28, 2026). On Callata the same 18 people cost $359.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.

The annual difference against RingCentral's monthly list price comes to $2,172. Some vendors discount annual contracts; the table shows month-to-month prices.

How Callata works for limited-service restaurants

Callata is a business phone system priced at $99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user. Callata Office includes up to 3 local business numbers, unlimited inbound calling, 1,500 pooled outbound US and Canada minutes per user each month, a browser softphone that can also ring your cell, voicemail with transcription, call recording with AI summaries, business-hours routing and E911 on every number.

If you already have a number in Butte, MT, porting it to Callata is free. Texting from a local number requires a one-time carrier registration (10DLC, $49), and the numbers available in any area code depend on carrier inventory when you choose them.

Optional AI agents (receptionist, sales, support or scheduler) can answer calls after hours or when nobody picks up, take messages, text, email and transfer to your team. They are billed from prepaid AI minutes at $0.25 per minute, identify themselves as AI, and may only place outbound calls to people who consented, between 8am and 9pm.