Article Summary: This tutorial explains how to structure your restaurant by creating your dining rooms and tables in the Reservit Restaurant manager. You will learn how to define table types with their seating capacity and quickly build your table inventory with the duplicate feature. Optimize your floor setup to manage your reservations smoothly every day.
The 4 key steps to create and set up your tables:
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Set up the rooms: Go to Managing my activity > My tables to add, name and save the different dining areas of your restaurant.
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Add table types: Create table categories by setting their capacity (minimum and maximum number of persons) and the arrival times allowed for each service.
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Set up the tables: Add your tables with a name or number (5 characters maximum) and check the days they are available (Monday to Sunday, plus holidays).
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Duplicate to save time: Use a table's duplicate button to create several tables at once, then edit them one by one with the pencil as needed.
Why follow this guide? Structuring your rooms and table capacity carefully in the manager is essential to maximize your occupancy and prevent overbooking. The duplicate tip also saves you valuable time during the initial setup of your restaurant and limits data entry errors.
Create a room
1. Go to Managing my activity > My tables.
2. Click ADD A ROOM.
3. In the CREATION OF MY ROOM window, enter the NAME of your room, then click TO SAFEGUARD.
Add a table type
4. For the room concerned, click ADD A TABLE TYPE.
The Essential information for setting up a table page opens: each field has its own TO VALIDATE button.
5. In Name, enter the name of the table type.
6. Click the TO VALIDATE button of the Name field.
7. In Minimum number of person(s), enter the minimum number of guests allowed at the table and click its TO VALIDATE button.
8. In Maximum number of person(s), enter the maximum number of guests allowed at the table and click its TO VALIDATE button.
9. In Arrival times, check for each service the times allowed for this table type, then click TO VALIDATE.
The All and None buttons check or uncheck all the times.
Before saving, you can fill in the Optional settings:
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MODIFY MY RESERVATIONS: child / adult ratio, grouping with another table to accommodate more people;
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RESOURCE STATUS: Open by default.
10. Click TO SAFEGUARD, then BACK TO LIST.
Add your tables
11. Click ADD A TABLE: the MY TABLE window opens.
12. In Name, enter the name or number of the table (5 characters maximum).
In Features, you can also select the table's characteristics (for example Quiet). See How to Apply Characteristics to Tables.
13. In Applicable days, check the days when the table is available: Monday to Sunday (Mo, Tu, We, Th, Fr, Sa, Su), plus Holiday for public holidays.
The All and None buttons check or uncheck all the days at once.
14. Click TO SAFEGUARD.
Duplicate a table
15. On the table's row, click the duplicate icon: the DUPLICATE window opens.
16. In Number of tables to duplicate, enter the number of copies you want.
17. Click CONFIRM.
18. Then edit the new tables as needed by clicking the pencil on their row.
19. Add as many rooms, table types and tables as you need.