Set up your restaurant — Dinesty Host guides

Everything below lives under Settings (and Floor plan). Do it once, in this order, and your first service runs itself.

Check your restaurant's details

Settings: the list of sections on the left

Open Settings and tap Restaurant, the first section on the left: name, cuisine, address, phone, website, Instagram — and the time zone, which every reservation time runs on. Tap Save changes.

Set your opening hours

When the doors are open, day by day. Set opening hours

Set your services

Lunch, Dinner — when guests can reserve, and on which days. Set your services

Draw your floor

Every table, bar and plant, room by room. Design your floor

Tell the app how long tables take

How long parties stay, and how early a table is held for a reservation. Tune service timing

Invite your team

Managers and hosts get their own accounts. Invite your team

When you're ready for more

Stop everyone arriving at once, or close a room when it rains — Pace your service.
Which reservations you take — Reservation rules.
VIP, Regular, Allergy — Guest tags.
Waiters and sections — Tonight's team.
Let guests reserve on their own — Your reservation page, then put it on Google, Instagram and Facebook.
WhatsApp confirmations, reminders and "your table is ready" — Guest messages.
Menu and ratings from a card on every table — QR cards.
Switch off what you don't use — Features.
On a tablet or phone: Display under Settings sets 24-hour time and the size of the table tags on that device.

set up your restaurant, start to finish.