Taking online reservations from your website is a highly rewarding decision. Guests love the ability to Book Online in real-time 24/7. You can guide Guests to available times easily, allowing you to maximise your Table Yield. You are automatically adding your guests email address and other details to your database for future marketing. You are making your guests part of a simple but sophisticated automatic communication process (with your own corporate design), and designed to maximise your reputation and business, as well as ensuring No-Shows are minimised.
Two very important things to do are firstly ensure your website is mobile optimised across all platforms and devices.
Secondly ensure the it is very obvious that you take online reservations from the moment the guest sets eyes on your website. There are some clever integrations of booking widgets on restaurant websites.
Visibility is even more important, we have seen online bookings double overnight by just a simple addition of another Book Online link in a Website top corner.
2 restaurants that do this very well are Merah Putih, Petitenget & Seminyak Italian Food, Double-Six Beach
Merah Putih
2 pages links to Reservations Widget - most prominent is Top Banner
Seminyak Italian Food
3 pages links to Reservations Widget - most prominent is Right Hand Sidebar and Top Banner menu.
Our ResDiary widget has some very clever features. Firstly once a guest has selected a Service and a Date, they are only shown available times. This stops them having to fish around back and forth to find available times. Aids quick decisions when desired time is not available. In addition, you can add a stage with available menus and promotions. These Menus and promotions can be linked by time, dynamic pricing and specific areas within your restaurant.
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