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The room fills without anyone picking up the phone.

Your bookings arrive at precisely the hour you cannot answer, and the tables that never turn up cost more than anyone admits. Here is how a sitting comes to protect itself.

4 min readServices and durations set up with youLive within 48 hours
In short

Online booking capped per sitting, an AI receptionist taking tables through the rush, confirmation the day before, a deposit on the large tables, and Google reviews asked for the next morning.

Typical serviceDurationDeposit
Table for two1 hr 30none
Table for four1 hr 45none
Large table (8 and over)2 hr 30€10 a head
Set menu for a group3 hrs30% of the menu
Exclusive hireevening€500
An example setup. Your durations and your amounts are your own, agreed when we install it.
01

The covers the kitchen can hold

A sitting is won on how it is spread: eighteen covers at 7.30pm and sixteen at 8.30pm, and the kitchen keeps up. Thirty all at once at 8.30pm and it goes under, the plates run late, and you collect a two-star review.

You set the covers allowed per slot. Once it is full, online booking closes and offers the other sitting. The kitchen knows in the morning what the evening holds, and the forecast is finally worth something when you order.

  • Covers capped per slot and per sitting
  • Large tables held for you to approve
  • The evening's forecast readable from the morning
02

The 8pm calls nobody misses

Mid-service, a call costs two plates running late. Letting it ring costs a table of four on Saturday. Both are bad, and it is the choice you make twenty times a sitting.

The AI receptionist answers in the restaurant's name, knows what is genuinely free, takes the number of covers, the name and the allergies, and writes the table in. It can also say no when you are full, and offer another evening.

A real example

Friday, 8.40pm, four calls during service: three tables written in for the weekend, one diner sent to the late sitting. Not one was missed.

03

No-shows, and the food bought for them

A no-show costs twice: the empty covers, and everything bought for them. On a full Friday, two absent tables are enough to wipe out the margin on the sitting.

The confirmation text goes out the day before with a cancellation link. Tables given back go straight out online again. On large tables and group menus, the deposit settles the question for good.

  • Confirmation the day before, cancelling takes one tap
  • A cancelled table back online immediately
  • A deposit per head on groups
04

Recent reviews, and regulars

Nobody reads reviews from three years ago. What counts is this month: a steady score, recent reviews, honest photographs of what you are cooking now.

The request goes out the next morning by text, with the link to your listing. Anyone unhappy reaches you privately first. And your regulars get the weekend menu or the themed evening, if they have agreed to it — which is what fills a Tuesday.

“We stopped picking up during service, and the bookings still come in.”

Illustrative example · 45-cover restaurant, Nantes

Common questions

It doesn't. Traxo handles the number of covers and the slots; the floor plan stays yours, in your book or on your tablet, exactly as you have always done it.

The right plan for this trade
Plan 02 · ProWebsite, Google listing and booking by sitting: what you need when filling the room without a middleman is the whole game.

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