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The guest selects a location, date, preferred time, party size and dining service.
Guest starts searchPickTables helps UK restaurants manage online reservations with a powerful restaurant reservation system designed to improve table availability, booking efficiency, and guest experience. Give guests a fast way to find and reserve an available table while your venue stays in control of dates, times, party sizes, service periods and confirmation rules. PickTables connects the public booking journey with one venue-owner dashboard, allowing restaurants to manage reservations, monitor table availability in real time, organise booking schedules, reduce missed opportunities, and streamline reservation management from one easy-to-use platform. Whether you run a small café, pub, fine dining restaurant, or multi-location venue, PickTables provides a complete table booking solution that helps UK restaurants attract more guests and manage every reservation smoothly.
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Make it easy for diners to move from restaurant UK search to booking confirmation & table availability without calling your venue or waiting for a reply.
Guests select their preferred location, date, time, party size and dining service to find venues with suitable availability UK.
Diners can review the restaurant’s UK public profile, menu information and table availability booking slots before continuing.
The guest enters the required contact and booking details, completes email verification and receives the appropriate booking status.
See how PickTables takes a guest from table availability search to booking confirmation while your venue remains in control of tables, service times and approval settings.
The guest selects a location, date, preferred time, party size and dining service.
Guest starts searchPickTables displays suitable venues and booking times based on live configured availability.
Availability displayedThe selected table is temporarily protected while the guest completes the required booking details.
Table temporarily heldThe guest confirms their email and provides any occasion or special-request information.
Guest details verifiedThe reservation is confirmed instantly or sent to the venue for approval, depending on its booking settings.
Confirmed or pendingA short temporary hold protects the selected table while the guest completes verification and booking details, helping reduce competing allocation during busy periods. This advanced reservation system helps UK restaurants manage table availability efficiently by providing real-time updates, preventing double bookings, and improving the overall reservation management process. Guests can quickly check available tables, secure their preferred dining time, and complete their booking with confidence, while restaurants gain better control over seating arrangements, guest flow, and online table reservations.
Your online table availability is created from the rules configured by your venue. PickTables UK lets you manage tables, service periods, capacity and confirmation settings from the owner portal.
Create bookable tables with their names, dining sections, table types and minimum or maximum guest capacity.
Configure separate booking periods for breakfast, brunch, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner, late-night dining or all-day service.
Set how frequently new booking times are offered and how long each reservation should occupy its assigned table.
Confirm suitable bookings automatically or require owner approval where your team needs to review the request.
Set booking lead time, booking horizon, cancellation rules and no-show information. Add closures for holidays, maintenance or private use.
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Send booking confirmation, scheduled reminders and status updates. Customers can request cancellations or reschedules according to the venue policy.
Keep the initial UK restaurant search simple, then collect relevant information when the guest completes the reservation system.
This gives your team useful context without making diners complete unnecessary fields before seeing table availability.
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Collect the guest’s name, email and relevant booking contact information.
Let guests indicate a birthday, anniversary, business meal or another supported occasion.
Collect dietary, table accessibility, seating or other relevant requests for venue review.
Record communication permissions separately rather than assuming consent from a booking.
Use the PickTables owner dashboard to review upcoming bookings, covers, pending requests and recent reservation activity.
The dashboard keeps everyday booking information together so your team can identify what needs attention before each service.
See future bookings and the next guests expected to arrive.
Review the number of guests currently expected for today’s reservations.
Track pending, confirmed, seated, completed, cancelled and no-show outcomes.
View a short operational summary of recent and upcoming reservation activity.
Identify bookings that require owner review before confirmation.
Review recent bookings and open the relevant reservation for further action.
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Configure your restaurant profile, tables, service periods and reservation policies, then give guests a clear route to find availability and request or confirm a table.
Configure bookable tables, capacities, dining sections, service periods, booking intervals, turn times, pacing limits and closures.
Create a useful venue profile and make suitable availability discoverable by location, city, cuisine, neighbourhood, amenities and meal period.
PickTables calculates availability from your configured tables, table capacities, active service periods, booking intervals, turn times, party-size rules, pacing limits, existing reservations, closures and temporary checkout holds.
Yes. Guests can search available restaurants and booking times online at any time. The times displayed depend on the availability and booking rules configured by each venue.
Yes. Venue owners can create separate service periods for breakfast, brunch, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner, late-night dining or all-day service. Each period can have its own times, booking intervals, turn duration and party-size rules.
Yes. A venue can use instant confirmation for suitable bookings or request-to-book when the reservation needs to be reviewed by the venue before confirmation.
PickTables temporarily holds the selected table while the guest completes their booking details and email verification. The hold expires when the allowed checkout period ends.
Customers can request cancellation or rescheduling according to the restaurant’s configured booking and cancellation policy. The venue can then manage the request through the reservation workflow.
PickTables supports booking confirmation, scheduled reminder and reservation-status emails. Email delivery depends on the website’s transactional email configuration.
Eligible venue-owner plans can support more than one restaurant location. Each venue requires its own profile, tables, service periods, availability and booking settings.
Setup time depends on the number of venues, tables, services and policies you need to configure. Before accepting live bookings, complete the venue profile, tables, availability, booking rules, closures and public booking tests.
Whether you’re exploring PickTables for your restaurant or need more information about booking, onboarding or account support, tell us about your requirements and our team can direct your enquiry appropriately.
PickTables is a UK restaurant reservation and table booking platform helping diners book tables online and helping hospitality businesses manage reservations, guests, reviews, and growth from one connected system.
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