Guides to running restaurant bookings

Practical guides for independent restaurants. Each one answers the question for any restaurant first, whatever you use to take bookings, then shows how Tables & Floors handles it.

• How to take bookings on your restaurant's own website

  What the booking form should ask, how to offer only times you can seat, and how to let guests change or cancel without calling.

• How to stop double bookings in your restaurant

  Why two parties end up booked on the same table, and the habits and tools that stop it happening.

• How to plan which tables each booking will use

  Matching parties to tables, allowing for sitting length and clearing time, joining tables for groups and keeping room to move.