A Pub Booking System That Understands How Pubs Actually Work
Pubs aren't restaurants. You've got walk-ins at the bar, table booking for food service, a beer garden that's either rammed or empty depending on the weather, and a Friday night that looks nothing like a Tuesday lunch.
simpleERB is a restaurant reservation system built to handle all of it - not by forcing you into a restaurant-shaped box, but by letting you set different rules for different parts of your venue.
Your bar stays open for walk-ins. Your restaurant floor takes bookings. Your beer garden has its own rules. Maybe bookings at weekends, walk-in only midweek. simpleERB lets you manage an area's online availability, set minimum booking size on certain days or change availability to sittings for a Sunday roast.
One diary. Multiple areas. Configured the way you manage bookings or different services. Staff see everything in one view. Customers only see the slots you've made available to book online. No confusion, no double bookings, no phone calls you didn't need.
Most pubs don't take bookings for every seat. You want the restaurant section bookable and the bar area left open. Maybe the snug is bookable on weekends but not midweek. simpleERB can handle that with controls on an area's booking availability.
Set which areas accept online table booking and which don't. Set minimum and maximum party sizes per area. Set different turn times for lunch and dinner. You control what's bookable, when, and for how many. The table booking system does what you tell it.
Customers book through your website, Facebook or Instagram. The booking lands in your diary. Your team doesn't have to answer the phone, copy anything across, or worry about clashes.
Beer gardens are unpredictable. Sunny bank holiday? Every table's gone by noon. Rainy Wednesday? Tumbleweeds. You can't run a beer garden the same way you run an indoor restaurant floor.
simpleERB lets you set up your beer garden as a separate area with its own rules. Open it for bookings when the weather's right. Close it when it's not. Limit online bookings to certain times. Change the setup on the fly - it takes seconds, not a phone call to a support team.
You can also build a separate table plan for the garden. Different layout, different table sizes, different capacity. When someone books an outdoor table, your team knows exactly where they're going.
A no-show on a Saturday night when you've turned other bookings away costs real money. For a table of 4 at £20 a head with a 70% gross margin, that's £56 gone. Multiply it across a busy weekend and you've lost hundreds.
simpleERB gives you the same no-show tools that restaurants use. Hold credit cards at the point of booking. Set a cancellation policy. Send automatic SMS and email reminders so people actually show up or cancel in time for you to fill the table.
Your waitlist is right there in the system. When a cancellation comes in, you've got a list of people ready to take the slot. The best restaurant booking system doesn't just fill tables - it keeps them filled.
Your staff are pulling pints, not answering the phone. Customers book when it suits them - 10pm on a Sunday, during the school run, on the bus home from work. If you're only taking bookings by phone, you're losing the ones that happen outside opening hours.
simpleERB's online restaurant reservation system is available around the clock. Embed a booking widget on your website. Connect Facebook and Instagram. Customers pick a date, a time, a party size - and the booking's confirmed before your team even knows about it.
No app to download. No platform taking a cut. Just a table booking website that works for your pub and looks like part of your own site.
Tuesday quiz night doesn't need the same setup as Saturday dinner service. Sunday roast is a different animal from Friday drinks. simpleERB's venue scheduling software lets you set different configurations for different days, different times, different events.
Create separate sittings for lunch and dinner. Block out areas for private functions. Set up special table plans for event nights. Change capacity on the fly when you know it's going to be busy - or quiet.
The table booking system is free to try (250 covers, no credit card) and month-to-month after that. No lock-in. Pause when you need to. That matters when your trade is seasonal.
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