Reservations · Morning readiness
Morning reservations, floor plan, and opening checks
Learn how to confirm the service date, understand expected covers, inspect booking details, review table assignments, and finish the remaining opening checks before lunch.
- Duration
- 6 minutes 18 seconds
- Guide
- Sepsut
- Audience
- Owner, manager, or host
- Required access
- Permission to view reservations, the floor plan, and opening checks in the assigned company workspace.
- Chapters
- 8 · English captions and transcript
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Chapter 1 of 8 · What this lesson covers
What this lesson covers
Welcome. In this lesson, I’ll show you how to prepare for service using reservations, the floor plan, and opening checks. We’ll confirm the correct date, review the expected covers, inspect the bookings, make sure the tables are assigned, and finish with the jobs that still need attention before lunch.
Confirm the service date
Start by opening Reservations and checking the service date. This sounds simple, but it prevents the most common kind of confusion: reading yesterday’s bookings or preparing the room for the wrong service. Once the date is correct, use the daily summary to understand how many guests are expected and when the first pressure point begins.
Read bookings and expected covers
Here we have three lunch bookings: four guests at eleven thirty, four at twelve, and four at twelve thirty. Together, that gives us twelve covers before one o’clock. The number matters, but the timing matters just as much. A steady arrival pattern gives the host, bar, and kitchen a clearer view of when they need to be ready.
Inspect a booking
Open a booking when you need the details behind the summary. Confirm the arrival time and party size, then look for the information the team actually needs: the booking status, the assigned table, and any relevant note. Use fictional guest information in demonstrations, and keep sensitive customer details out of training recordings.
Check floor-plan capacity
Next, check the floor plan. The goal is not to fill every table as early as possible. The goal is to place each booking sensibly while protecting enough flexibility for walk-ins, timing changes, and larger parties. These three four-person bookings should sit at appropriate four-top tables, with a clear sequence the host can follow when the doors open.
Save and verify table assignments
Before leaving this screen, look for anything that is not ready. An unassigned booking, an unclear note, or a table that cannot be used should be resolved before the guest is standing at the door. Make the correction in the demo workspace, then confirm that the schedule and floor plan now agree.
Review preparation tasks
Now open Tasks and review the remaining preparation jobs. Reservations tell us who is coming. The opening checklist tells us whether the room and team are ready to receive them. Focus on the jobs that are still open, who owns them, and whether any issue needs to be escalated before service.
Review the saved schedule
With the service date confirmed, twelve covers understood, the tables assigned, and the remaining checks reviewed, the team has one calm picture of the morning. That is the purpose of the workflow: find the problems while there is still time to solve them. You can return to any chapter in this lesson whenever you need a refresher.
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