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Available Seating is a 100% web-based reservation system that fits seamlessly into your current restaurant configuration. The bulky hardware required by other reservation systems is expensive, cumbersome and simply unnecessary. With Available Seating, as long as you have an internet connection, any device will do. From the moment you join, you’ll have 24/7 access to all of the easy-to-use tools that Available Seating has to offer. Such as…
Create Restaurant & Locations
Whether you have 1 location or 40, with a single brand name or dozens, you can setup all of your restaurant locations under one account. Just create each one individually and customize it to match the locations’ features – seating arrangement, hours, bar area, etc. Your virtual restaurant is now at your fingertips and is available to you virtually anywhere – your phone, coffee shop, home computer, or hostess station. No matter your location, logging into AvailableSeating.com will give you full access to view and update the daily activities occurring at each restaurant location. Thought you could only be in one place at a time? Problem solved.
Add Wait Staff
Now that your restaurant is setup in your online Available Seating account, you’ll want to add in the profiles of your wait staff and hostesses. You can get as detailed as you’d like, but keeping a running list of your staff will make scheduling and table assignments a breeze. Once your staff is added to the account, just select those who are covering your current shift and you’re ready for the dinner rush to begin!
Create Seating Arrangement
What’s a wait staff without tables to serve? Add in your seating arrangement to keep perfect inventory of your available tables. Creating tables within Available Seating gives a great baseline for a “normal” day in business, but also allows on-the-fly updates and rearrangements to accommodate large groups or special events. With the wait staff and seating arrangement in the system, your organized hostess is fully equipped to assign eager diners to prepared servers. Win. Win. Win.
Online Reservation Calendar
Now that the restaurant is organized when YOU login, let’s do the same for your customers when they visit your website. By simply embedding some code on your website, you can implement the reservations calendar on the landing page of your choosing. Wah lah! Now your customers can book a reservation at your restaurant online, hassle free. Since you’ve already setup the seating layout, customers will only have the options you created to choose from. And instead of being redirected to a 3rd party website like other reservations companies require, Available Seating keeps your valued diners at YOUR website. You got them there, let’s keep them there! Menu browsing, anyone?
Send Diner Reminders
Their reservation is booked and the eager diners are scouring your online menu to select their future dessert. Beep Beep Beep. That’s Available Seating sending a confirmation text to the diner’s phone, reminding them of their reservation time and location. That extra touch point exemplifies customer service, lowers the risk of a no-show, and provides the impression that you’re efficient, friendly and organized.
Manage Tables
Just as your future diners are finalizing their dessert choice, you receive a notice that they have requested a table for two at 8pm. You check the system, decide that Table #4 with the romantic lighting would be a perfect fit, and assign them to the table. When the couple arrives later that evening, your hostess greets them by name, checks them in and assigns their table to one of the servers scheduled for that day. And it’s all done online.
