Restaurant
Configure restaurant areas, booking types, tables, seating, availability, and offers in Simple Mode
Restaurant Simple Mode separates the choices a guest books from the tables and seats staff operate. The workspace contains Booking setup, Dining availability, Offers, and Tables & seating.
Preset at a Glance
| Setting | Restaurant behavior |
|---|---|
| Booking choices | Booking types, optionally split by restaurant area |
| Availability | Shared dining availability, with optional hours on each booking type |
| Physical inventory | Tables and individually bookable bar seats |
| Whole-venue bookings | Optional staff-only Private Hire |
| Offers | Scheduled promotional booking prices |
Configure Booking Areas and Types
Open Booking setup to define what a guest can choose.
Restaurant areas are optional. Use them when guests should choose a space such as Indoors, Terrace, Bar, or Private Dining. If no areas are created, every booking type uses the shared seating pool and the guest is not asked to choose an area.
At least one Booking type is required. Examples include Lunch, Dinner, Drinks, or Brunch. For each type, configure:
- Customer-facing name
- Booking duration
- Preparation buffer before the booking
- Reset buffer after the booking
- Whether it uses all Dining availability
- Its own days and start and end times when it should use only part of Dining availability
- How booking starts are generated: from the booking duration, at a selected custom interval, or by optimising starts around existing bookings and buffers
When a booking type has its own schedule, a time is offered only when it falls inside both the booking type schedule and Dining availability.
Where areas are configured, Tiquo combines each area with each booking type to create the choices shown to customers. For example, Terrace + Drinks and Indoors + Dinner can have distinct availability while continuing to use the same table workspace.
The suggested setup can add common starter areas and booking types. Review every suggestion before publishing it so the names, duration, buffers, and hours match the venue.
Add and Configure Tables
Open Tables & seating and select Add Table. Configure:
- Its ID, name, and active status
- Minimum and maximum guest capacity
- Floor plan assignment
- Table shape: round, square, or rectangle
- Number of chairs shown on the floor plan
Tables not assigned to a floor plan are marked Not on floorplan. During service, the floor plan can suggest a table that fits the party or let staff combine more than one available table.
Add Bar Seating
The Bar seating section contains individually bookable seats. Each bar seat has capacity for one guest and appears as a chair on the floor plan. Standalone bar seats can be booked and moved in the same way as tables.
Add Private Hire
Select Add Private Hire when staff need to reserve the whole venue. A Private Hire booking checks that every active table and bar seat is available for the full period and then reserves them together.
Private Hire is staff-only by default. Open its advanced service settings only when it needs different pricing, duration, access, or availability rules.
Configure Dining Availability
Open Dining availability to set the venue's bookable days, hours, and breaks. This is the outer availability window for restaurant bookings; a booking type can use all of it or a narrower schedule.
Configure Booking Offers
Open Offers to publish a scheduled booking promotion. An offer can have its own name, price, image, details, terms, eligible booking choices, days, date range, and time window. It appears only when both the offer schedule and normal booking availability match.
Booking Flow and Advanced Mode
Use Booking Flow to configure the customer journey, customer details, payment, policies, appearance, localisation, notifications, and deployment.
Use Advanced Mode only when the restaurant needs booking structures or connections that Simple Mode cannot represent. The business type remains locked while services or inventory exist.