Sittingly answers
Every answer below is aimed at a question people measurably search for, is written from named sources, and links to the page that handles the job itself. None of them is a landing page in disguise.
The guides on this site are all about one thing: the room, and what the booking book can do with it. They cover what a table management system has to encode about joins, holds and pacing, how a restaurant layout and its table mix decide which bookings you can accept at all, and how to read a floor plan as covers and sittings rather than as a picture. Each one points at the free worksheet that does the arithmetic on your own figures, and none of them is about anywhere to eat.
- Table management software: what it has to do on a Saturday, and what a table management software restaurant shortlist should be judged on
What table management software actually does between a booking being taken and a party being seated, and the four things to judge a shortlist on.
- A restaurant table management system, or restaurant table management software: what restaurant table management is actually doing between the booking and the chair
What a restaurant table management system does that a diary cannot: joins, holds, pacing and the walk in, explained for the person running the pass.
- Restaurant seating software, and what a restaurant seating system has to know about your room before it can seat anybody
What restaurant seating software needs to know about your room, and why seating is a room problem before it is a software problem.
- Restaurant layout: what the room actually seats, and what it costs a sitting
How a restaurant layout decides the covers you can sell: table mix, circulation, the service route, and why the same floor seats very different numbers.
- Restaurant table layout: how a restaurants layout of twos, fours and sixes decides which parties you can say yes to
How the mix of twos, fours and sixes in a restaurant table layout decides which bookings you can accept, and how to read your own book for the answer.
- Restaurant floor plans: what to compare them on, covers rather than seats
How to compare restaurant floor plans on covers and turn rather than looks, and the three errors that cost a small room a sitting a service.
- Restaurant floor plan template: the restaurant floor plan layout worth filling in, and what a small restaurant floor plan layout has to get right first
What a restaurant floor plan template should ask you for, in what order, and why the numeric half matters more than the drawing.