Slot Capacity & Pacing
Spread the rush across the kitchen.
A restaurant doesn't break because it's full — it breaks because twenty covers land at the same minute. The dining room can handle volume, the kitchen cannot absorb a spike. The pass slows, tickets stack, tables sit with empty hands, and a fully-booked night turns into a badly-served night.
Slot Capacity & Pacing puts a ceiling on how many covers the booking system will accept in each time slot. Set 30 at 12:00, 30 at 12:15, 25 at 12:30. Once a slot is full, the form and every connected channel — Google, Instagram, Facebook, the embedded widget — stop offering it. Guests pick the next open slot instead. No one is turned away; the arrival curve just smooths itself out.
The rule works at two levels. A venue-wide cap throttles the total kitchen load, and per-area caps let you pace each section independently — the garden at 10 per slot, the indoor at 20, the bar at 5. Change the numbers for a lunch shift versus a Saturday dinner, or punch up the caps during a quiet Tuesday to fill seats faster.
This is the difference between a reservation system that books everyone and one that actually protects your operation.
Key benefits
No more 8:00 pile-up
Set a hard cap per slot. Once 30 covers are booked for 12:00, the form moves guests to 12:15. The kitchen breathes.
Per-area throttling
The garden paces differently than the indoor room. Configure each area's slot cap independently — reflect how your line actually plates.
Every channel respects it
Website form, Google, social, widget — one source of truth. You can't get overbooked via a back-door channel.
Shift-specific rules
Lunch pace is not dinner pace. Tuesday is not Saturday. Switch caps by day-of-week and time window without editing the schedule.
Protect revenue without turning guests away
Full slots don't block bookings — they shift guests to the next slot. Covers still land; the rhythm is just yours to set.
How it works
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Pick the scope
Venue-wide cap, per-area cap, or both — layered rules per shift.
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Set the numbers
Enter max covers per slot interval. 15-minute granularity, per day-of-week.
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Apply to schedule
Attach the pacing rule to a shift or a date range. Exceptions live alongside (holidays, events).
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Every channel reads it
Website, Google, Instagram, Facebook, and embedded widgets all pull live availability with caps baked in.
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Watch the arrival curve flatten
The dashboard shows covers-per-slot for the current day. Compare to last week — see pacing work.
Stop the 8 o'clock rush
Pace arrivals so the kitchen stays sharp all night. Configure slot caps in minutes.
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