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 and what the room actually seats: how restaurant layouts change the covers you can sell, and the resturant layout decisions that quietly cost 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 compared: what a restaurant floorplan for a small room has to do differently, and the resturant floor plan errors that lose covers

  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.