A full dining room and an empty one are not run the same way.
We learned it by watching a full one, from behind the bar, on a Friday at nine.
A service doesn’t fall apart all at once.
It falls apart over a table somebody thought was free. Over a booking written on the next page of the book. Over two minutes looking for a name while four people stand at the door and the pass starts shouting.
None of it shows up anywhere. No figure records it and nobody talks about it the next day. But it happens every night, and every night it costs money.
Your bookings live in three places at once.
An independent restaurant keeps its bookings in a notebook, in the notes on someone’s phone and in the head of whoever picked up. The tools exist, but none of those three places knows what the other two hold.
With few people, it works. When it fills up, it stops working, and that is exactly when nobody has two minutes to check.
That’s why Resvity starts with the floor plan.
A booking tool on its own tidies up the notebook, but nobody on the floor can see what’s in it. We wanted the tables, the bookings and the work that eats up time without anyone noticing, all in one place.
So each table’s status comes from the day’s bookings: the floor plan and the booking list can’t disagree, because they read the same information.
The rules anything has to meet to get in.
Time is the cost that never shows up on an invoice
Everyday actions take three taps at most and none asks for confirmation, because every one can be undone for five minutes. Something done forty times a service cannot cost six taps.
No figure that hasn’t been measured
Covers, no-shows and turnover come from real bookings, with each figure’s definition written next to it. When a measure doesn’t have enough history yet, it says “not yet” instead of showing half of one.
We only build what we can do well
No charging your guests, no POS, no multiple venues from one account. We’d rather do bookings and the floor properly than do everything halfway.
Guests see your restaurant, not Resvity.
Whoever books doesn’t open a booking app: they open the restaurant’s page, with its logo, its colours and its typefaces, as the house chose them. Resvity only appears in small print at the bottom of the page.
The name they should remember is the place they had dinner. If they leave without knowing we exist, we’ve done our job.
We’ll show you Resvity with your own tables.
One call: you tell us how bookings reach you today, and we show you how your restaurant would look on Resvity, Pro or Basic. Nothing is signed on the call.