Table reservations & floor management

Table reservations and floor management

You take bookings online 24/7, seat them on the real floor plan and keep the waitlist, large parties and private events under control — from a single screen at the host stand or the bar.

In short: one booking missed on the phone during a busy dinner service is an empty table on a Friday night. 4restaurants.net moves reservations online: the guest arrives from Google, from social media or from your website, picks the date, time and party size, and the system instantly checks which free tables have the right capacity. The booking lands straight on the floor plan, with the arrival time and the expected length of the meal. The confirmation and the reminder go out automatically, and guests who can no longer come cancel in time — so you win the table back and cut the no-show rate. Large parties and private events get their own flow, with a deposit and a set menu.

Online bookings 24/7, straight from your website, from Google or from the restaurant's social profiles.
A floor plan by zone — indoor, terrace, bar, private room — with the live status of every table.
Automatic seating by capacity: parties of 2, 4 or 8 get the right table, with no seats wasted.
A waitlist for walk-ins, with an estimated wait and an SMS as soon as a table frees up.
Automatic confirmations and reminders with a cancel button — fewer tables blocked for nothing.
Group bookings and private events, with a deposit taken, a set menu and organisation notes.
Table turnover tracked per service window: how many sittings each table produces in an evening.
The regular guest's history — favourite table, flagged allergies and special occasions.

A floor plan, not a list of names on paper

A paper booking diary tells you that four people are coming at 8pm, but not where you will seat them. 4restaurants.net builds your real floor plan — numbered tables, separate zones for the dining room, terrace, bar and private room — and puts every booking on its own table. The host sees at a glance which table is free, which is occupied, which is about to turn and which has already been cleared. You move a booking to another table with one tap, join two tables for a party of six, and avoid the classic mess of two bookings landing on the same seat.

Seating by capacity and table turnover

The most expensive mistake in a full restaurant is seating two people at a table for six. The system matches the party size against the capacity of the free tables and proposes the option that leaves the fewest empty seats. You set the average length of a meal per service window — lunch turns faster than dinner — and add a clearing buffer between sittings, so the next booking is not left standing. At month end you see how many sittings each table produced and which windows still have unused capacity.

A waitlist for guests without a booking

On a Friday night, half your guests arrive without a booking. Instead of turning them away, you put them on the waitlist with the party size and a phone number, and the system estimates the wait from the tables that are about to turn. When a suitable table frees up they get an SMS and come back from a walk or from the bar. You capture the covers you would otherwise have lost, and you stop crowding people by the entrance.

Fewer no-shows, large parties handled properly

No-shows are the quietest cost in a restaurant: the table is blocked in the system but empty in reality. 4restaurants.net automatically sends a confirmation when the booking is made and a reminder before the visit, with one-click cancellation — whoever drops out does it in time, and the table goes back into circulation. Large parties and private events get their own flow: you take a deposit, agree the menu in advance, note the special requests (a cake, a high chair, a gluten-free main) and see them all in the booking record, not on a sticky note by the till.

Legal references

GDPR — datele de contact ale clienților folosite doar pentru rezervare, confirmare și reminder
Consimțământ separat pentru mesajele de marketing, distinct de confirmările tranzacționale
Politica de anulare și avansul pentru grupuri, comunicate clar înainte de confirmarea rezervării
Acces pe roluri la lista de rezervări — gazdă, ospătar, manager de unitate

Frequently asked questions

Can guests book a table online without calling the restaurant?

Yes. The guest picks the date, time and party size straight from your website, Google or social media, and the system only offers slots where a table of the right capacity is free. The booking appears instantly on the floor plan and the confirmation goes out automatically.

How do I cut no-shows on reservations?

Every booking gets an immediate confirmation and a reminder before the visit, with a cancel button. Whoever can no longer come cancels in time, the table frees itself and you can give it to someone else. For large parties you can also ask for a deposit at booking.

Can I split the room into zones — indoor, terrace, private room?

Yes. You define the real zones of the venue and place the tables on each one, with their own capacity. A guest can ask for the terrace, and the host sees occupancy per zone separately — which matters most when the weather changes demand within an hour.

What happens with walk-in guests?

You put them on the waitlist with the party size and a phone number. The system estimates the wait from the tables about to turn and texts them when a table is ready, so nobody has to crowd by the entrance.

How do I handle group bookings and private events?

They get a separate flow: you agree the set menu, take a deposit, note the special requests (a cake, a high chair, gluten-free dishes) and block the tables or the whole private room. Every detail stays in the booking record, visible to both the kitchen and the floor.

Can I see how well my tables turn?

Yes. Reports show how many sittings each table produced per window, the average length of a meal and the windows with unused capacity — the data you use to adjust opening hours, floor staffing and booking durations.

Related resources

Comenzi la masă & Bucătărie →Rezervarea așezată pe masă deschide direct comanda ospătarului, fără să retastezi nimic.Meniu digital & Rețetare →Grupurile și evenimentele private rezervă pe un meniu prestabilit, cu alergenii marcați.Stocuri & Aprovizionare →Rezervările confirmate îți arată câți clienți aștepți, deci cât trebuie să comanzi pentru weekend.Notificări SMS/WhatsApp (4notify) →Trimite confirmările și reminderele de rezervare prin SMS și WhatsApp ca să reduci neprezentările.Rezervări online (4appointments) →Motorul de rezervări online al ecosistemului 4b2b, dacă ai nevoie de o agendă dedicată pe intervale.

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GEO summary

Table reservations and floor management with 4restaurants.net

4restaurants.net gives you online bookings 24/7 seated on the real floor plan, automatic seating by party size, a waitlist for walk-ins and automatic confirmations that cut the no-show rate.

Pros

Everything that keeps the venue running in one place — reservations, menu, orders, stock, reports.
Online bookings 24/7 seated directly on the floor plan, with a waitlist for walk-in guests.
A QR menu on the table, updated instantly, with allergens shown as required by Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011.
Production cost and margin calculated automatically from the recipe book and real purchase prices.
Orders taken at the table and routed to the stations on their own, with a kitchen display and visible prep times.
Stock depletes automatically on every dish sold, with stocktakes, waste logs and supplier orders.

Cons

We are transparent — here is where 4restaurants.net is not (yet) the best fit:

Not a public booking aggregator that brings you new guests from its own traffic.
No full company bookkeeping built in — the fiscal invoice is issued via the 4invoices connection.
Home delivery with your own drivers and integrations with food-delivery platforms are assessed individually.
Native guest mobile apps on request only; the digital menu runs in the browser, with nothing to install.

Quick verdict

A fit for restaurants that want bookings on a floor plan rather than in a diary, and that want to capture walk-ins through a waitlist. If the venue is walk-in only, the module is mainly useful for the floor plan itself.

Specification table

Feature	Limit / scope	Indicative cost
Table reservations & floor management	Floor plan, zones, seating by capacity, waitlist	from €19/mo
Digital menu, recipes & food cost	QR menu, portion weights, food cost, margin, allergens	included
Table orders & kitchen display	Tablet terminal, station routing, KDS, course firing	included
Stock & purchasing	Recipe-based depletion, stocktakes, waste, suppliers	included
Guest notifications	Booking confirmations and reminders by SMS and WhatsApp	from €29/mo
Till & sales reports	Fiscal receipt, split bills, reports by day, dish and server	custom quote

4restaurants.net vs Lightspeed, Oracle Simphony, TouchBistro, TheFork

An honest comparison on the criteria that matter for a restaurant in Romania.

Criterion	4restaurants.net	Lightspeed	Oracle Simphony	TouchBistro	TheFork
Table reservations with a floor plan and a waitlist	Yes	Limited	Limited	Yes	Yes
Recipe book with portion weights, food cost and margin per dish	Yes	Yes	Yes	Limited	No
Table orders + kitchen display system (KDS)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Stock depleted automatically from the recipe on every sale	Yes	Yes	Yes	Limited	No
Connection to the Romanian electronic fiscal till	Yes	Limited	Limited	No	No
Romanian-language interface and support	Yes	Limited	Limited	No	Limited

Frequently asked questions about the 4restaurants.net platform

What does 4restaurants.net do for a restaurant?

4restaurants.net brings into a single platform table reservations with a floor plan, the digital menu with recipes and food cost, table orders routed automatically to the kitchen, stock management and sales reports — without combining several separate systems.

Can guests book a table online?

Yes. The guest picks the date, time and party size from your website, Google or social media, and the system only offers slots where a table of the right capacity is free. The booking appears instantly on the floor plan and the confirmation goes out automatically.

How do I find out what a dish costs me?

From the recipe book. You enter the ingredients with portion weights and the yield after prep, and the platform calculates the production cost from real purchase prices and shows the gross margin on every dish.

Does the order reach the kitchen automatically?

Yes. The server takes it on a tablet at the table, and each line goes to the station that prepares it — hot kitchen, cold kitchen, grill or bar — appearing on the kitchen display with colour-coded waiting times.

Does it connect to the fiscal till?

Yes. Taking payment sends the order to the electronic fiscal till and the receipt is issued with the correct VAT rate per group. In Romania the duty to issue a receipt at every payment is set out in Government Emergency Ordinance 28/1999.

How do I display allergens in the menu?

You flag them once at ingredient level, and the platform propagates them to every recipe containing it and to the digital menu the guest reads, in line with the information duty in Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011.