Turn wait time into sales time.
Bookings, a live floor plan, and a walk-in waitlist that seats itself, all from one host stand with no per-cover fees. While guests wait, their phone shows your cocktails and specials, so the bar fills up before they've sat down.
Waiting Area
Get a buzzer and track your place in line from your phone.
Book a table for a future date and skip the wait entirely.
Instant confirmation · Email reminder
Everything your host stand needs
One place to run it all, from the moment a guest books to the moment you seat them.
In-Wait Upsells
Every guest watching their place in line is looking at a screen you control. Put your cocktails, specials, and events on it, so more of them order at the bar before they sit down. This is the part that pays for the software.
Online Table Bookings
A customizable public booking page where guests reserve their own table, pick where they sit (indoor, outdoor, bar), and get an automatic calendar invite for Google or Apple.
Drag-and-Drop Floor Plan
Design your restaurant layout with custom tables, seating capacities, and layout rules. Track real-time table statuses (Available, Seated, Cleaning) and occupancy timers from any POS or tablet.
Week & Timeline Booking Diary
Manage your reservations in a full week calendar view or visual table timeline. Quickly resolve double-bookings and view detailed guest profiles.
Auto Waitlist Seeding
Bzz drops each upcoming reservation onto your live waitlist 30 minutes before arrival, so bookings and walk-ins sit on one list instead of two.
Shift Hours & overrides
Define your weekly operating hours, slot durations, and advance reservation limits. Set holiday hours and capacity overrides in a couple of clicks.
Confirmation Flows
Trigger automated reservation confirmation emails and real-time browser alerts without paying expensive flat fees per cover.
Verified Presence (GPS)
Cut no-shows by requiring guests to be at your restaurant to join the waitlist — or simply get notified when they arrive. Opt-in, permission-based, and off by default; no extra hardware.
What does Bzz do for restaurants?
It runs your bookings, floor plan, and walk-in list on one screen instead of three, so the host can see who's booked, who just walked in, and which tables are still being cleared without flipping between apps. Double-bookings stop slipping through. And because every guest waiting for a table is watching a screen you control, that's where your cocktails and specials go to work before they've sat down.
Stop paying for guests you already earned
Big reservation networks can charge up to $1 for every guest seated — even the ones who would have found you anyway. Bzz is one flat monthly price with unlimited covers, so a busy night doesn't mean a bigger bill, and your guest list stays yours.
No commission on covers
However many guests book, you pay the same flat fee. Keep every euro from the bookings you bring in.
One screen for everything
Bookings, the live floor plan, shift hours, and the walk-in list all sit on the same host-stand dashboard.
Make money during the wait
Show waiting guests your cocktails and specials on their phones, and turn a crowded lobby into bar orders.
What changes when you switch
$0
Per-cover fees
Swap per-head reservation commissions for one flat monthly price — for a busy room that can be hundreds back in your pocket each week.
More
Drinks at the bar
Guests watch their place in line on their phone and browse your cocktail list while they wait, so more of them order before they sit.
Faster
Table turns
Live table timers and a "needs cleaning" status on the floor plan tell your team which tables are ready, so guests get seated sooner.
The Hidden Cost of Waiting
in Restaurants
The wait is your best ad slot
Clearing the host stand is table stakes. What actually moves the number is the ten or fifteen minutes a guest spends waiting for a table. They check in, book, and get their table-ready buzz on their own phone with nothing to install, using the same digital tracking link that put the plastic coaster out of a job.
That screen is yours. Put your cocktail list, a tasting menu, or tonight's special on it and you're working the psychology of upselling at the one moment a hungry guest is glad to say yes. A full bar before anyone sits down is the difference between covering the subscription and making real money on it.
Dining Room Floor Plan Map
Real-time table states: Seated (Red), Cleaning (Yellow), Available (Green).
Monetizing Wait Times in Restaurants
Customer wait time isn't just an operational bottleneck—it's captive attention. A digital buzzer turns the screen your restaurants customers are already watching into space for your own highest-margin offers, with no extra staff and no hard sell.
- Displaying high-definition images of chef specialties and cocktails to waiting guests.
- Capturing premium online bookings directly on your business landing page with custom seating rules.
- Reducing no-shows by automatically seeding reservations into active walk-in lists and triggering confirmation alerts.
Ready to clear your lobby?
Stop paying per-cover fees, design your floor plan, and let guests book online in seconds. Start free — no card needed.
Reservation Networks & Hardware Pagers vs. Bzz
How Bzz compares to OpenTable / Resy-style networks and physical table pagers for an independent restaurant.
| Feature | Reservation networks & hardware | Bzz |
|---|---|---|
| Cost per seated guest | Up to ~$1 per cover on booking networks | No per-cover fees — ever |
| Monthly price | Tiered fees + cover commissions | Free plan, then from $11.99/mo flat |
| Contract | Often annual lock-in | Month-to-month, cancel anytime |
| Physical pager hardware | $800–$2,000+ for coaster buzzers | None — guests paged on their phone |
| Bookings + walk-in waitlist | Usually separate tools | One unified host stand |
| Earn revenue during the wait | Not possible | Show specials & cocktails in-wait |
| Best fit | Large, established venues | Small, independent restaurants (<5 sites) |
*Competitor fees and hardware costs are industry estimates and vary by provider and region. Paid plans from $11.99/mo.
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