Automation

Automation for Restaurants

A busy restaurant runs its reservations, supplier orders, and staff scheduling in separate places, and the connection between them is usually a manager remembering to update all three. Automation removes the retyping, not the judgment calls that still need a person.

Where the manual work actually is

It is rarely the till or the booking widget that wastes time. It is the reservation that needs a table combined manually, the supplier order rebuilt from last week's usage by memory, and the schedule that gets texted around a WhatsApp group every Sunday night.

What automation actually removes

Reservation-to-floor sync. Large parties, allergies, and VIP notes flow from the booking system into the floor plan or POS, instead of being read off a printed sheet.

Supplier ordering. Recurring orders generate from recent sales patterns or par levels, with a human approving before it sends, cutting the Sunday-night guesswork without removing the check.

Staff scheduling and swaps. Shift requests and swaps get requested and approved in one place, with hours totals visible to whoever runs payroll, instead of a WhatsApp thread nobody can search later.

Review and feedback loop. Post-visit review requests go to guests who opted in, timed a day or two after the visit, not blasted to everyone in the reservation system.

Systems we typically connect

CoverManager, TheFork, GloriaFood, common POS platforms (Square, Lightspeed), WhatsApp Business, Google Sheets for supplier par levels where no dedicated tool exists yet.

What we would not recommend

Automating supplier orders with no human check before they send, a demand spike or a data error becomes an expensive mistake fast. Replacing a POS that already works just to enable automation, we build around it instead.

Delivery

Reservation sync plus one other workflow (ordering or scheduling) typically ships in 3-5 weeks for a single location; multi-site adds 1-2 weeks. InfoWebPlus, Costa del Sol.

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Automation

Automation for Restaurants - FAQ

Will this replace our POS system?
No, we build the connections around your existing POS and booking system rather than replacing tools that already work for your team.
Is automated supplier ordering safe, what if demand spikes unexpectedly?
We always keep a human approval step before an order sends. Automation prepares the order from real usage data; a person still reviews it against what they know about the week ahead.