Practical advice to manage your reservations, reduce no-shows and grow your restaurant.
Forget the lists of 25 random tips. Here is a prioritized action plan to attract more customers to your restaurant: start with your Google profile, turn visitors into bookings, bring guests back, then squeeze more out of every service.
Yelp Guest Manager has a great waitlist and no cover fees, but the best price requires annual billing and the Basic plan caps your covers. Here are 6 alternatives with verified pricing.
Tock now belongs to American Express and starts at $289 per month plus a 3% fee on prepayments. Here is an honest look at what it does brilliantly, what it costs, and the alternatives worth considering.
Toast Tables only makes sense inside the Toast ecosystem. Here is an honest look at what it does well, what it really costs, and the alternatives for restaurants that want reservations without the POS lock-in.
Quote-based pricing, a fee on every diner the marketplace seats, and a discount culture driven by Yums: why UK restaurateurs look for an alternative to TheFork, and what an honest comparison actually shows.
SevenRooms is a powerful CRM and reservation platform built for restaurant groups, hotels and nightlife venues, with pricing only available by quote. For an independent restaurant in the US or the UK, there is a simpler, transparent, commission-free way to take bookings.
Resy now starts at $289 per month and belongs to American Express, alongside Tock. Here is an honest look at what it costs, what it does well, and the alternatives worth considering.
resOS is one of the cheapest ways for a UK independent to start taking online bookings, but its free plan stops at 25 bookings a month and every growth step raises the bill. Here is an honest, source-checked look at the alternatives.
ResDiary is a commission-free veteran of UK hospitality, but its core plans are quote-only and the useful extras are paid add-ons. Here is an honest, source-checked look at the alternatives, including a free one.
Quandoo has officially announced it is ceasing operations: the platform takes bookings only until 30 September 2026. Here are the dates to note, the real alternatives for UK restaurants and how to migrate without losing bookings or guest data.
Per-cover fees on every network reservation, $149 to $499 a month, a one-year auto-renewing contract: here is an honest, numbers-first comparison between OpenTable and a flat-price alternative for US and UK restaurants.
Eat App's free plan caps you at 100 covers a month, and the first paid step is $99. Here is an honest, dated comparison with a reservation system whose free plan has no cover limit at all.