It's eight on a Saturday night. WhatsApp has four unopened messages, Instagram has two, and the phone rang while nobody could pick up. Whoever is working the floor has no hands free to reply, and the booking ends up at the restaurant next door.
This is how your customer books. No app, nothing to install.
Receiving requests was never the problem. Having them scattered across different places, with nobody looking at the whole picture and no idea which went unanswered, is.
Every request that comes in becomes a booking with a time, a party size and a confirmed service, within the capacity your room actually has. When a service fills up, it stops accepting. Nobody turns up at the door for a table that no longer exists.
This isn't a chatbot returning text. It's a real booking, with time, party size and service, landing in your dashboard while the customer is still typing on WhatsApp.
If you take requests by message and your team is on their feet working, this problem is yours.
Where dinner service is decided at the pass and nobody has time to hop between apps confirming tables.
Requests that arrive at any hour, many outside reception hours, that can't wait until the next morning.
For anyone running it alone or with a small team, who can't be glued to a phone all day.
There's no new software for the team to learn. Customers keep writing where they already write.
WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and email all start landing in the same dashboard. Your customers notice no difference at all.
Tell us how your service runs: opening times, sittings, how many people fit. Bookings then respect that.
Bookings show up organised and the usual questions are already answered. The team steps in only when something needs deciding.
Start today with every request organised in a single dashboard, without changing how you work.