Business phone system for limited-service restaurants in Cody, WY

The limited-service restaurant market in Cody, WY

County Business Patterns counts 23 limited-service restaurants (NAICS 722513, Limited-Service Restaurants) in the Cody, WY micropolitan area for 2023. Together they reported 350 mid-March employees and $7,145,000 of payroll for the year. That ranks 790th of the 925 metro and micropolitan areas where Census published a count for this industry.

With 31,082 residents in the Census 2024 estimate, that is 74.0 limited-service restaurants per 100,000 people, 6.8% below the national rate of 79.4. Establishments average 15.2 employees, 17.2% below the U.S. average of 18.4. Payroll per employee comes to $20,414, 2.1% below the national $20,857.

How big limited-service restaurants in Cody, WY are

Of the limited-service restaurants in Cody, WY that had employees in March 2023, 18.2% had fewer than five (the U.S. share is 24.3%). 40.9% had fewer than ten. For a business of a few people, phone coverage is a staffing question as much as a technology one: someone has to be free to pick up, or the call needs somewhere sensible to go.

Calls a limited-service restaurant in Cody, WY has to catch

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.

Calls a limited-service restaurant in Cody, WY might handle in a typical week include:

• A customer calls about an order mistake.
• A delivery driver calls for directions.
• An office calls about catering for a meeting.

Calls after closing time

After-hours callers usually want hours or catering information.

With business-hours routing, calls after closing can go to transcribed voicemail or an optional AI receptionist instead of ringing an empty room.

Phone system pricing for a 15-person limited-service restaurant

The average limited-service restaurant in Cody, WY has 15.2 employees, so a 15-person team is a reasonable benchmark. Priced per seat, 15 users would run $450.00 a month on RingCentral RingEX Core and $374.25 on Ooma Office Pro (month-to-month list prices, checked September 28, 2026). On Callata the same 15 people cost $299.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.

The annual difference against RingCentral's monthly list price comes to $1,812. Some vendors discount annual contracts; the table shows month-to-month prices.

Which area code to use in Cody, WY

The exchanges in the area's named cities and towns are all in area code 307 (26 exchanges in NANPA's file). Callata's plan includes up to 3 local numbers; you can pick them in the area codes your customers recognize, subject to carrier inventory, or port the number you already have for free.

What limited-service restaurants in Cody, WY get with Callata

For $99 a month, Callata puts a team of up to 5 on one plan ($20 for each person after that): up to 3 local numbers, unlimited inbound calls, a pooled allowance of 1,500 outbound US and Canada minutes per user, browser and cell calling, voicemail transcription with urgency triage, recorded calls with AI summaries and business-hours routing, with E911 on every number.

If you already have a number in Cody, WY, 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.