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Table booking for pubs: how Tablez works
A friendly tour of Tablez for a busy pub, from walk ins and phone bookings to no shows and Christmas.
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Sunday lunch, walk-ins, phone calls and a Christmas diary that fills fast. Here is how Tablez helps a busy pub. Open today first thing. You see the day's bookings and covers and who is arriving next. The day view shows each service with the tables in use. The floor plan is your room, live, free, booked soon, seated and needs cleaning all show in colour. Tap a table to seat a walk-in. If nothing is free, add them to the waitlist and they get a text when a table frees up. Taking a booking on the phone? Press Add booking. Type their name, number and party size and mark it as taken by phone. It goes in the same diary as your online bookings. To cut no-shows, switch on texts. Tablez can send a confirmation, a reminder the day before and a still coming check on the day. Anyone who has not answered shows with a question mark on the floor plan. plan. Pro plans can take card deposits too. For Christmas, use events. Set a date, a capacity, a price ahead and a deposit. It fills up separately from your normal tables and you can attach a set menu. That is tables for a busy pub. There is a free plan and no fee per diner. Start free at tablez.co.uk
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