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your first day
New to Dinesty Host? Read these in order — about ten minutes — and you’re ready for your first shift.
What the app does, and a map of the home screen — so you always know where to look.
Get in for the first time with the invite email your restaurant sends — then sign in on any device.
What the colours, timers and alerts on the floor are telling you.
Where to find help from inside the app, change the name people see, switch restaurants, sign out — or delete your account.
Covers, turns, services, sections — the handful of words you'll see on every screen, in plain English.
getting ready for service
Ten quiet minutes before the rush: check tonight’s reservations, say who’s working, and change tonight’s hours if you need to.
during service
The things you do all night, one small guide each. Open the one you need — each takes a minute or two.
A party at the door with no reservation? Four taps and they're at a table.
The phone rings, someone wants a table on Friday. Book it in under a minute.
A booked party is at the door. Get them from the list onto their table.
The room is full. Take a name, note the wait you gave them, and keep the line fair.
Their table is ready — move a waiting party onto it in a couple of taps.
The party's leaving. Close the table, get it cleaned, get it back in play.
Too close to the door, too sunny, wrong table? Move a seated party in two taps — their timer keeps running.
Look up any reservation in seconds — then change it, give it another table, or cancel it.
Party of ten? Push tables together in the app the way you do on the floor.
Wobbly leg, private setup, short-staffed corner — take a table out of play.
The Wi-Fi went down mid-service. What keeps working, what waits, and what to write down.
your guests and your numbers
Who your regulars are, what guests thought of their visit, and how tonight is going.
Find a guest, see how often they come, tag your regulars and VIPs — and book them again in two taps.
How many guests are in, how many are coming, how fast tables are turning — tonight at a glance.
Every rating guests leave from the card on their table — who served them, what they said, and which ones need an answer.
setting up your restaurant
The settings behind the night — the room, your hours and services, the timing the whole app runs on, and your team.
New to Dinesty Host? The order to do things in, from an empty account to a first service.
Draw your dining room the way it really looks — tables, booths, bars, the buffet, the plants, the pool.
When the doors are open, day by day. The services you sell inside them — lunch, dinner — come next.
Lunch, dinner, a late seating — the services guests can reserve for, and the days each one runs.
How long you hold tables, how long parties stay — the clock the floor and the reservation screen both run on.
Stop the whole book landing at 8pm, set a last reservation time, keep part of the room for the door — and close the terrace when it rains.
Which reservations you take — pausing them, same-day, the bar, phone numbers for big groups, how far ahead.
The labels your team puts on guests — VIP, Regular, Allergy, Birthday.
Get everyone on the same floor — and give each person the right level of access.
Don't run a waitlist? Don't want the team screens? Turn off what you don't use and it leaves the app.
One card per table: guests scan it to read your menu or rate their visit — and the rating lands on the right table.
Your own page where guests reserve a table themselves — in your colours, in English and Arabic, straight into Host.
One link, everywhere guests find you — and every reservation shows where its guest came from.
A confirmation, a reminder and "your table is ready" on WhatsApp — plus an email for guests who give one — sent for you, in your restaurant's name.
Run more than one restaurant? Switch between them in two taps — and see all of them at once.
the one-page cheat sheet
The colours, the timers, the alerts and the six moves of a shift, on one page. Print it and tape it to the host stand.
