Restaurant reservations on your own site

Party size, service windows and how long a table turns decide what is genuinely available. The page never offers a table for six at eight o'clock if there is no table for six at eight o'clock.

You set the shape of the room and the rules of the service, and the availability follows from that rather than from a number somebody typed in.

A Friday table for eight that does not arrive is not a small loss, it is the whole evening for that table. A deposit changes who carries that risk, and it filters the bookings that were never serious.

You set the amount, the window in which it is refundable, and what happens when somebody does not turn up. Guests who respect the booking never notice it exists.

Reservations share the POLICY layer with appointments: the same deposits, the same reminders, the same inbox, the same calendar. They do not share the booking engine, which is built around one subject of capacity per offering. That is an honest limit rather than a missing feature, and it is why the policy behaves predictably from day one.

A QR code on the table can show the menu, take the next reservation, or collect a tip. The cheapest marketing you own is the customer already sitting in your dining room.

Repeat guests build a history in your own client list: what they booked, how often, whether they showed. That is yours, not a marketplace's, and it is what lets you treat a regular like a regular.