Live drag-to-seat floor map
Your actual room, drawn once. Pick up a booking, drop it on a table, done — and every other screen in the building already knows.
Host stand
Built for independents · Founding venues opening now
Your floor plan, live, on every screen in the building.
Tablemint is the reservation book, the table map and the kitchen pass in one app — for restaurants that don't have a head office, and never wanted one. Runs on the tablet already behind the bar.
- No per-cover fee
- Unlimited staff logins
- Your guest list stays yours
Tonight’s book
Reservations, walk-ins and the waitlist sit in the same list — because on the door they are the same job.
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19:45
Haddad · 4 covers · T7
Anniversary. Table away from the door — noted last visit.
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20:00
Okonkwo · 2 covers · T4
Confirmed by SMS at 11:02 this morning.
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Walk‑in
Ava · 2 covers · waiting
Quoted 15 minutes at 19:37. Texted when T6 clears.
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20:15
Party of 8 · T12
Set menu B. Kitchen already has the count.
Illustrative view with sample data.
The live floor map
One map. The host, the servers and the pass are all looking at it.
Drag a booking onto a table to seat it. Everyone’s screen changes at once — no shouting across the pass, no second copy of the truth in someone’s notebook.
- Seated — with time down
- Reserved — with name and time
- Held for the waitlist
- Free
Illustrative product view with sample data. Tablemint is in build; screens shown are the working design, not a shipped release.
8–40
Tables per venue is the room we design for — not the 400-cover chain.
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Screen the whole team works from, on the tablet you already own.
$0
Per-cover fee. Not at launch, not later. It is not in the model.
Yours
Guest list, notes and contact details. We never market to your regulars.
The problem
A paper book, a WhatsApp group, and whoever is on the door.
That system works. It works right up until 19:40 on a Saturday, and then it costs you a table, a regular, or both. None of it is anyone’s fault — it is just three copies of the truth in three places, and only one of them is standing at the pass.
“The book said 8pm. The pencil said 8pm. The party arrived at 7:30 and the table had walk-ins on it who’d just ordered starters.”
The reason we started building this
What existing systems get wrong for a room your size
- Priced for a head office. Per-cover commission turns a good Saturday into a bigger invoice.
- Designed for a regional manager. Dashboards for people who are not in the building. Nothing for the person actually seating.
- They rent you your own regulars. The booking portal collects the guest, then sells them back to you as a “discovery” cover.
- The kitchen is not in the loop. The pass finds out about the twelve-top when the twelve-top sits down.
Saturday, one service
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19:12
Two books, one table
A phone booking goes in the paper diary. An online booking lands in the inbox. Both are for T7 at 20:00 and nobody finds out until 19:58.
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19:31
The walk-in that costs you a booking
Four people at the door, T4 looks empty, so you seat them. T4 is booked for 20:00 and the party is already parking.
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19:47
The waitlist lives in a head
Three groups quoted “about twenty minutes” by three different people. Two leave. Nobody records that they left.
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20:04
The kitchen is ambushed
A twelve-top sits and the pass sees it for the first time. Every ticket behind it goes out five minutes late for the rest of service.
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22:50
Nobody can answer the only question
How many covers? What was the turn? How many no-shows? The honest answer is a guess, and next week you plan the rota from that guess.
The solution
One state of the floor. Four places to see it.
Seat a table on the host stand and the server’s phone, the pass display and the owner’s phone all change at the same moment. There is no syncing step, because there is only ever one book.
The host stops guessing
Free, reserved, held and seated are four different colours. The next booking on every table is on the table. Quote a wait and the guest gets a text when it clears.
The kitchen stops being surprised
Seating a table sends its course clock to the pass. The twelve-top is on the display before the twelve-top is in the chair.
The owner stops guessing too
Covers, turn time, no-shows and revenue per seat come out of what actually happened on the floor, not out of a memory of Saturday.
What’s in it
Eight things a room your size actually needs.
Not eighty. We cut everything that only makes sense when you have a regional manager and a marketing budget.
One book for everything
Reservations, walk-ins and the waitlist in a single list, in time order. Because on the door they are one job, not three.
The book
SMS confirmations and no-show tracking
Confirm on the morning, text when the table clears, and keep an honest count of who never came. Templates you can rewrite in your own voice.
Guests
Course pacing to the kitchen display
Seating starts a clock. Starters, mains and dessert land on the pass in the order the room needs them, with the covers count attached.
The pass
Guest notes that follow the guest
Coeliac, hates the window, always orders the Barolo, celebrating the same anniversary every March. Attached to the person, not to one booking.
Guests
Shift handover summary
At service change, one screen: what is still down, what is booked, who is waiting, what broke. The thing the closing manager currently says out loud and hopes lands.
Team
Covers, turn time and revenue per seat
By service, by day, by section, by table. Enough to plan a rota and settle an argument — not so much that you need a data analyst.
Reporting
Runs on what you already have
A browser on the tablet behind the bar, the phone in your apron, the screen at the pass. No till swap, no installer, no hardware order.
Setup
How it works
Watch a service run.
Here is one table, from the phone ringing on Tuesday to the report on Sunday morning. Four moves, and none of them is “update the other system”.
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The booking lands
Phone, walk-up or your own booking page — it goes in the same book. Tablemint suggests a table that fits the party and the turn, and texts a confirmation.
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The host seats it
Drag the booking onto the table. The map goes green, the clock starts, and the server’s phone shows it in their section within a second.
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The pass gets the pacing
Covers and course timing appear on the kitchen display as the table goes down. Fire starters, hold mains, push dessert — all from the floor, no shouting.
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The night writes itself up
Table clears, turn time is recorded, handover summary builds itself. Sunday morning you read what happened instead of reconstructing it.
Setup is an afternoon
Draw your room from a set of table shapes, import your book from a spreadsheet or your current provider, and run one quiet lunch on it before you trust it with a Saturday.
Training is a shift
Everyone gets a login — unlimited, at no extra cost, because charging per user in an industry with turnover is a tax on hiring. Most staff need one service to be fluent.
If the internet drops
The floor map keeps working on the device it is already loaded on, and reconciles when the connection returns. A dead router should not close your door.
Why we’re different
No per-cover commission. Ever.
Booking portals charge you for every head that walks through a door you already own, then market your regulars back to you as new business. It is a strange arrangement and everyone in the industry has quietly accepted it.
Tablemint charges a flat monthly fee to the restaurant and leaves the guest relationship exactly where it belongs. Your guest list is your asset. We will not email it, we will not rank you against the restaurant down the road, and we will not sell your Saturday to the highest bidder.
- Flat fee, unlimited covers. A full room costs the same as an empty one, which is the only fair way round.
- Unlimited staff accounts. No per-seat licence in an industry with real turnover.
- Export everything, whenever. Guests, bookings, notes and history in a plain file. Leaving should be as easy as arriving.
- Monthly, no lock-in. Cancel at the end of a month. No two-year term to sign at the pass.
Do the arithmetic yourself
What a busy month costs, two ways
An illustrative 40-table room doing roughly 1,800 covers a month. Portal rates vary; substitute whatever yours actually is.
| Month | Per-cover model | Tablemint |
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| Quiet — 900 covers | $1,350 | $89 |
| Normal — 1,800 covers | $2,700 | $89 |
| December — 2,600 covers | $3,900 | $89 |
Per-cover column assumes an illustrative $1.50 per seated cover. We are not quoting a named competitor’s rate — check your own statement, the number is usually on the last page.
The part that isn’t about money
The guest who books through a portal belongs to the portal. They get the email, the offer, the “restaurants near you” list with your competitor on it. When your regulars book through Tablemint, the only person who ever contacts them is you.
Pricing
One price, per venue, per month.
Everything is included. There is no starter tier missing the floor map, and no enterprise tier that unlocks the reports you already needed.
Single venue
One room, everything in it
For the independent restaurant, café, wine bar or hotel dining room running its own book.
$89/ month, per venue
- Live floor map, unlimited tables
- Reservations, walk-ins and waitlist
- Kitchen display and course pacing
- SMS confirmations and reminders included
- Unlimited staff accounts
- Covers, turn time and revenue-per-seat reporting
- Your own booking page, no commission
Billed monthly. Cancel at the end of any month. Fair-use SMS allowance of 500 messages a month, then billed at cost.
Small group — 3 sites or more
Two or three rooms, one owner
For the local group that grew sideways rather than upwards, and still has no head office.
$69/ month, each venue
- Everything in the single-venue plan
- Guest notes shared across your sites
- Send an overflow party to your other room in one tap
- One report across every venue, one invoice
- Staff who work across sites keep one login
Price applies from the third venue onwards, to all of them. Hotel dining rooms without a corporate PMS count as a venue.
What is never extra
Staff logins, the floor map editor, the kitchen display, your booking page, data export and support. If it is in the product, it is in the price.
What could cost more
SMS beyond the monthly allowance, billed at what our carrier charges us with no margin. That is the entire list, and we will tell you before you cross it.
Founding venues
The first cohort helps us shape the product and keeps their launch price for as long as they stay. We would rather have twenty rooms that argue with us than two hundred that don’t.
Where we actually are
We haven’t launched. Here is what we’ll be judged on.
Tablemint is in build with a founding cohort of independent rooms. We have no customer logos to show you and we are not going to invent any. What we can show you is the product, and the three numbers we have agreed to be measured against once those rooms have run a full quarter on it.
Covers seated
Every cover, recorded when the table actually goes down rather than when someone remembers to write it up. The baseline for everything else, and the number most rooms are currently estimating.
Measured from day one
Average turn time
Seated to cleared, by table and by service. If pacing the kitchen properly does not move this number, the feature does not deserve to exist and we will say so.
Before and after, same room
No-show rate
Counted honestly, including the ones you would rather not count. Compared against the same room’s rate before confirmations were automatic.
Before and after, same room
Who is building it
A small team with more Saturday nights behind us than funding rounds. We have run doors, worked passes, and lost tables to a double-booked pencil line. Tablemint is the tool we kept describing to each other at 1am while cashing up.
What a founding venue gets, and gives
Gets: the launch price locked for as long as you stay, your floor plan drawn for you, and a direct line to the people writing the code.
Gives: honest feedback after real services, permission to publish your covers and turn-time numbers once you are happy with them, and the patience to be early.
Questions
The things people ask at the pass.
Do I have to replace my till?
No. Tablemint sits alongside your POS rather than on top of it. It runs in a browser on the tablet, laptop or phone you already have. If you want covers and revenue per seat to line up exactly with the till, we can import a nightly sales file — but you do not need that to start.
What happens to the bookings I already have?
We import them. Send us a spreadsheet, a CSV export from your current provider, or in the worst case a photograph of the book, and we will get the next few weeks in before your first service. Guest notes come across too where the export includes them.
Who owns the guest data?
You do. We process it on your behalf so the product works — sending your confirmations, storing your notes — and that is all. We do not market to your guests, we do not build a cross-restaurant diner profile, and you can export or delete everything at any time.
What if the Wi-Fi goes down mid-service?
The floor map keeps working on any device that already has it open, and changes queue locally until the connection comes back. You lose live sync between devices while it is down, which we would rather be honest about than pretend otherwise. When it reconnects, the state reconciles and flags anything that conflicted.
Can guests book online?
Yes — you get a booking page on your own domain that writes straight into the same book. No commission, no listing on a marketplace next to your competitors, and no third party in between you and the person who wants a table on Friday.
Is $89 really the whole price?
For one venue, yes: every feature, every staff account, and 500 SMS a month. Beyond that allowance we bill messages at what our carrier charges us. There is no setup fee, no per-cover charge, and no annual contract.
When can I actually use it?
Founding venues are being onboarded now, in small batches, so that we can draw each room properly and sit through a service with you. Tell us your table count and when your quiet shift is, and we will tell you honestly where you sit in the queue rather than promising a date we cannot keep.
We are a hotel dining room. Does that work?
It works if you are running your own book rather than taking covers through a corporate property-management system. Plenty of hotel restaurants are in exactly that position — a separate room with its own service and no useful software. Tell us the setup on the contact form and we will be straight with you about fit.
Founding venues
Send us your floor plan. We’ll draw it and show you your own Saturday.
Tell us how many tables you have and how you take bookings today. We’ll build your room in Tablemint, walk you through a full service on it, and you can decide from there. No demo script, no sales call disguised as a discovery call.
Or email us directly: hello@gettablemint.com