Restaurants

The Restaurant Booking System Built to Help You Grow

ResDiary helps you take table bookings 24/7 without paying costly commission fees.
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Why your restaurant needs ResDiary

ResDiary's bookings and table management system is built to serve your success.

Our platform is packed with features to help you showcase your restaurant where people want to book, and bring everything together towards a smoother service for your staff and customers. Whatever the shape or size of your business, we're here to help you grow, supporting you every step of way.

Trusted by 10,000+

hospitality venues worldwide

75 million bookings per year

Made through ResDiary's website widgets, Google, social media, and third party booking platforms

255 millions covers per year

Well served with ResDiary supporting restaurants to delight their diners
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Be seen everywhere, attract diners, and keep your profits

ResDiary empowers you to take bookings from multiple channels free-of-charge.

This includes your own custom website widget, Google, Facebook and Instagram, ensuring maximum exposure for your venue to attract diners where they're looking online. Our platform consolidates all bookings into one easy-to-use reservation diary, simplifying management and helping you retain more of your revenue - with fixed costs and 0% commission. 

  • Customisable website booking widget

  • 0% commission on all bookings - including Google, Instagram, and Facebook

  • Manage multiple booking channels in one place
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Get your venue featured on Dish Cult 

Dish Cult, powered by ResDiary, is the online booking platform that allows you to highlight your venue and be found online. It features spotlights, guides, and news articles on top dining experiences, and offers real-time availability straight from your table management system. 

Best of all, you can get listed on Dish Cult for free when you join ResDiary! 

Table management so simple it practically runs itself 

Managing reservations can be time-consuming and stressful.

With ResDiary, you can automate and control your bookings using smart rules that ensure a smooth service. Our system maximises table bookings while preventing staff from being overwhelmed during peak times, creating a better dining experience for everyone. 

  • Manage volume of bookings by time-slot, covers, and areas
  • Reduce no-shows with automated booking reminders via email or SMS (Silverstreet subscription required for SMS)

  • Securely store card details and accept deposits, or full payments 
  • Cloud-based web-app and available on smart devices for easy access
  • ResPhone: Never miss a booking call 
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Boost your revenue with our marketing tools

Promote special events and sell gift vouchers.

ResDiary makes it easier to entice table bookings and boost sales with its powerful marketing tools. Capitalise on special events like Valentine's Day or the Festive Season, or even wine tastings, by creating wonderful email campaigns you can send directly to your database.  You can also boost sales by selling gift vouchers, all available from your booking system - but custom-made to fit your brand.

  • Create and send promotional emails

  • GDPR compliant

  • Sell and manage gift vouchers

Get your just desserts for great customer experience 

Make the most of your booking data with our reporting suite.

Keeping track of how things are going in your business can be tricky, especially when you run a busy restaurant. ResDiary’s reporting tools can help you deepen your understanding by bringing together key analysis of booking trends, email campaign performance, and sales (when paired with POS). So you can make data-led decisions on delighting your diners and turning them into life-long regulars!

  • Analytics suite giving you data driven insights
  • POS integrations for full visibility of bookings and sales data
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Systems working together to help you grow

ResDiary is partnered with more than 60 hospitality systems to share vital data and streamline your operations
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Running more than one restaurant?

Discover how ResDiary helps restaurant groups

ResDiary’s smart, cloud-based tools can make bookings and table management more simple for restaurant groups with multiple venues. Our group central reservations hub allows you to see table bookings, events enquiries and pre-orders, and review key from anywhere.

  • Group central reservations for managing reservations across multiple restaurants

  • Cloud-based website app, tablet, and smartphone access from anywhere

  • Custom booking widgets for every venue, with cross-selling options

  • A central space to handle events enquiries and pre-orders for large parties

Scalable solutions for hospitality venues

ResDiary’s smart tools are designed to help your business run more smoothly and squeeze more value from every booking.

Many of our customers have been able to adapt to new challenges and handle exponential growth with our help. Just like The DRG, a restaurant group that grew its portfolio across 15 years with ResDiary. 

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Buying back precious time with ResDiary

ResDiary can help independent restaurants run more efficiently, giving their operators and stuff much-needed support and control.

Learn how 51 Cornmarket, a popular independent restaurant in Ireland, uses ResDiary’s booking system to manage customer flow, maximise seating space, and reclaim valuable personal time for its staff and owners—while securing half of their bookings from repeat diners.

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See ResDiary in action to understand how you can:

  • Increase your bookings and revenue with ResDiary 
  • Manage reservations and reduce no-shows 
  • Take reservations from your website, social media, Google, and Dish Cult at 0% booking commission

Each demo is personalised so you see ResDiary addressing your specific needs.

Simply fill out the below form and our team will be in touch.

 

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Learn why 10,000+ venues around the world choose ResDiary.

Find out how ResDiary, the smart and simple online booking system, can help your hospitality business grow.

Meet the ResDiary Booking & Table Management System

Got a question about ResDiary?

Read through the frequently asked questions below or get in touch.

What is ResDiary?

ResDiary is a hospitality venue reservation and table management software system. Built for hospitality operators by hospitality experts, ResDiary powers over 9000+ hospitality venues across the globe.

We’re built for growing hospitality businesses, so if you are a fine dining restaurant, a bar or cafe, a club or hotel, ResDiary has the tools you need to streamline your venue’s operations. 

Whether you are looking to accept online bookings, become more profitable with turning tables, managing events effortlessly, running promotional campaigns, automate your phone booking, offer vouchers or accept payments online, ResDiary can take care of it all. 

ResDiary offers commission-free bookings. That right! Regardless of where the booking is made, via your website, social media channels, Reserve with Google, or Dish Cult, you won’t pay a commission-fee.

What integrations does ResDiary offer?

ResDiary partners with hundreds of global technologies businesses to help your venue run more efficiently.

If you are looking to integrate your POS, marketing communications, PMS or with complimentary booking partners, we can support your venue's needs.

Check out our existing integrations here.

Looking for something a bit more bespoke?

What is Dish Cult?

Dish Cult is a diner discovery and booking platform, powered by ResDiary. By joining ResDiary every venue will receive their complimentary Dish Cult listing to increase your venues exposure. Showcase the best your venue has to offer by adding text, images, menus, link to your website and social media, and sell gift vouchers directly from your page on Dish Cult.

Reservations made via your Dish Cult listing are automatically synced with ResDiary – you can view all bookings and cancellations in your diary in-real time.

With local editorial teams, Dish Cult is constantly looking for new restaurants, menu items and experiences to share with our diners, so they are plenty of opportunities to be featured in our content.

What is the difference between ResDiary’s plans?

ResDiary offers a range of plans to suit the needs of every venue. ResDiary Express, Pro, Connect and Ultimate offer the same core features as the full ResDiary, with the only difference being the number of bookings per plan.
ResDiary offers greater flexibility to the needs of your venue(s), including:
  • Ability to set up promotions
  • Allows you to take payments
  • Integrates with Pre-orders, SMS, and Events
  • Yield management control (number of bookings/covers per time interval).

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How is ResDiary different from other reservation and table management systems?

Built for hospitality operators by hospitality experts, ResDiary puts you in control of your venue with a forward-thinking enabler that helps your venue unlock its full potential to be in full swing, while cultivating great customer connections.

ResDiary does not charge a commission on your booking, regardless of where the booking is made - your website, social media channels, Reserve with Google, or via Dish Cult, you won’t pay a commission-fee on any of your bookings.

Who owns my customer's data?

The short answer is it’s you, the venue who is the controller of the data. 

ResDiary is the processor who will carry out processing under instructions of the controller for the purpose of sharing with the venue and analysis. At times, ResDiary may anonymise data to explore booking trends and user behaviour in order to inform product enhancements and communications. This allows us to stay on top of our ever-changing industry and provide you with a solution to fit your venue’s growing needs.

We do recommend you read our Clause 14 in our Terms of Service for further details.

Does ResDiary offer customer support?

Absolutely we do!  Our customers receive dedicated local support from dedicated hospitality tech professionals who are  on hand to support your venues needs.

To connect with your local support team check out our Customer Hub

Is ResDiary available around the world?

Yes, ResDiary operates across 60 countries around the world. With regional teams located in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Indonesia and North America.

See it in action

See how ResDiary brings it all together and how we can help you in managing your busy venue. Let’s do this.

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