Restaurant Pre-Order and Party Booking System
Rediscover the joy of menu pre-orders
A restaurant pre-order system lets every guest in a party choose their courses before they arrive. You send one link to the organiser, each guest submits their choices and dietary requirements, and the kitchen gets a single consolidated prep sheet — so a table of twenty is served as fast as a table of four.
Favouritetable's solution delivers smooth, seamless and worry-free group and party bookings in one system.
Increased efficiency
Do away with endless emails and calls with guests when managing pre-orders for party bookings. Get rid of all the spreadsheets, word documents and costly manual labour involved in completed the pre-ordering process and let your booking system do the work for you. The lead booker receives a link with an easy to complete pre-ordering form, sends this link to the rest of the party who fill in their own order. Et voila… Job done!
Automated reminder emails
With our party booking system, for each party booking, you can set a ‘submission date’ for the order to be completed with all guests’ menu item choices. The system will automatically send a reminder email to the guest at regular intervals until the order has been completed in full.
Protect your revenue
Party menus pre-ordering can be set to include a deposit (per guest or per booking) or credit card details to secure the deposit. This is a great way to reduce instances of no-shows and late cancellations, based on the booking’s terms & condition that you define.
Kitchen sheets
Our Restaurant Pre-Order System provides pre-order reports that can be printed for the kitchen team. This helps your kitchen to manage orders with suppliers more efficiently, improve mise en place requirements on busy party days and as a result reduces wastage as your supplier ordering reflects the level of items that need to be purchased for large party bookings.
Place cards
The Pre-Order System for Restaurants provides the ability to print place cards for each guest, with the name of the guest and their menu selection. These cards can be placed on the table to provide a nice extra ‘personal touch’.
Create unlimited party menus
All menus can be created ahead of time and apply to specific party booking size, selected dates or date range, specific times or time range. You can therefore create the right party menus to suit different budgets and pace for your kitchen.
Menu pre-ordering is a dream come true
Favouritetable combines a range of proven tools designed to delight owners and customers of restaurants, bars and pubs by automating processes, eliminating messy paperwork and significantly increasing efficiencies. By using our personalised online portal, the customer is able to plan their event and menu choices before submitting them electronically to the Favouritetable reservation system. There’s no more chasing customers’ selections or deposits or payments, so you can rediscover the joy of online pre-ordering the way it should be.
Designed for restaurateurs. Loved by party organisers.
At the heart of the menu pre-ordering module is an easy-to-use personal online portal for the party organiser. From there they can manage their guests' menu choices in their own time, at their own pace. Additions and amendments are sent in real time to the restaurant's Favouritetable Reservation System so there are never any errors or lost details.
Just look what you get with favouritetable
We've designed the best-in-class tool to redefine how your restaurant manages menu pre-ordering. By re-engineering the traditional manual menu pre-ordering process and utilising powerful online technology, we've eradicated pinch-points and created an environment where you will once again love dealing with party bookings. Once you've tried it, you'll never go back - it is the pre-order and party booking system you always promised yourself.
A perfect on-the-day experience
The Favouritetable pre-ordering experience doesn't stop after making a booking, it's designed to deliver perfectly organised group and party bookings on the day. Automatically create place cards to welcome guests and reduce turnaround time; use system-generated chef sheets for complete brigade control and ensure diners receive exactly what they ordered.
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Part of a fully integrated restaurant management system
With the right restaurant pre-order system you can reach more diners, improve customer satisfaction and reduce costs. We believe restaurants need a complete range of management tools - all in one highly flexible system. That’s why Online Booking is one of the three key pillars of a Favouritetable subscription, which also comprises the Reservation System, and full, caring support.
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Frequently asked questions
You create a pre-order menu for the booking and send the organiser a single link. Each guest opens it, picks their courses and flags any allergies, and everything lands in your Favouritetable system as one consolidated order before the party arrives.
Yes. You can request a per-head deposit or full pre-payment at the time of booking, with the money paid directly into your bank account. Deposits are the most effective protection against large-party no-shows.
Yes. Set a cut-off — for example 48 hours before the booking — after which guests can no longer change their choices, so your kitchen can order and prep with confidence.
Each guest records their own requirements when they submit their choices, and those notes travel with the order to the kitchen sheet and the table plan. Nothing depends on a handwritten note behind the pass.
No. The pre-order system is used for everything from a table of six to full-venue Christmas bookings across multiple sittings.
Yes. Because you know exactly what has been ordered before service, you buy and prep to a confirmed number rather than an estimate, which reduces both waste and over-ordering.
No. Guests use a web link on any device. There is nothing to download and no account to create.
Yes. Build fixed set menus, festive menus or event menus, attach them to specific dates or bookings, and take the pre-orders and deposits against them.