# 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.

## 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.