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learn the host stand.

Plain-English guides to running your restaurant on Dinesty Host. No tech talk — every guide takes a minute or two, with pictures from the real app.

Start here

your first day

New to Dinesty Host? Read these in order — about ten minutes — and you’re ready for your first shift.

Before the doors open

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.

Every shift

during service

The things you do all night, one small guide each. Open the one you need — each takes a minute or two.

Guests & numbers

your guests and your numbers

Who your regulars are, what guests thought of their visit, and how tonight is going.

Managers & owners

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.

Set up your restaurant

New to Dinesty Host? The order to do things in, from an empty account to a first service.

2 minManagers & owners

Design your floor

Draw your dining room the way it really looks — tables, booths, bars, the buffet, the plants, the pool.

4 minManagers & owners

Set opening hours

When the doors are open, day by day. The services you sell inside them — lunch, dinner — come next.

2 minManagers & owners

Set your services

Lunch, dinner, a late seating — the services guests can reserve for, and the days each one runs.

3 minManagers & owners

Tune service timing

How long you hold tables, how long parties stay — the clock the floor and the reservation screen both run on.

2 minManagers & owners

Pace your service

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.

3 minManagers & owners

Set reservation rules

Which reservations you take — pausing them, same-day, the bar, phone numbers for big groups, how far ahead.

2 minManagers & owners

Set up guest tags

The labels your team puts on guests — VIP, Regular, Allergy, Birthday.

1 minManagers & owners

Invite your team

Get everyone on the same floor — and give each person the right level of access.

2 minOwners only

Switch features on or off

Don't run a waitlist? Don't want the team screens? Turn off what you don't use and it leaves the app.

1 minOwners only

Put QR cards on your tables

One card per table: guests scan it to read your menu or rate their visit — and the rating lands on the right table.

3 minOwners only

Open your reservation page

Your own page where guests reserve a table themselves — in your colours, in English and Arabic, straight into Host.

4 minOwners only

Share your reservation page

One link, everywhere guests find you — and every reservation shows where its guest came from.

4 minOwners only

Send guests messages

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.

4 minOwners only

Several branches

Run more than one restaurant? Switch between them in two taps — and see all of them at once.

2 min
Print it

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.

Open the cheat sheet