OpenTable for Restaurants

I am a hostess and a very very busy restaurant . One of the top rated in the country. Love love this system . So far my only concerns would be that if I could have access to the floor plan on my phone so I can set up the servers section before hand, assign tables or even see what tables reservations are assigned to. Also would love if some of the tags had Icons matching/fitting what it stands for . Example : “business meeting”should have a “brief case”💼 logo or “graduation”should have a graduation cap or graduate wearing a cap 🎓👨🏾‍🎓👩🏽‍🎓logo etc... over all everything else works great.

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Not mobile friendly at all. There’s no use for the phone app other than seeing guest lists. There’s nothing else to utilize. Would be nice if we could utilize floor chart or respond to reviews

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I used this system for Easter and it was a nightmare. It takes too many steps to do simple things like seating guests. I think some of the old open tables good points can be brought over to the new version. Have drag and hold easy switch floors plan tabs. Now you have to click each floor plan individually instead of dragging ur finger and holding. Then it automatically would switch for you. Before I could drag and drop to seat in the patio and bar area. Now I have to “preassign” then seat. In a rush this takes too long. Another thing is get rid of all the different tabs such as seated, removed, etc. Make it a simple list with icons for canceled, seated etc. If you are going to have the reservation list page at least keep it in 1 row with notes showing beside each reservation instead of having to individually click each one to see what’s in their notes. I also called about an issue with making floor plans via the app and safari. It won’t allow me to copy or create a new floor plan. Lastly I noticed you can’t simply block future date reservations using the app without using safari. You can only do the current working shift.

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Our restaurant switched over to Guest Center last summer and we have had continuous problems with the system. It seems great with all of the “improvements” it tries to make, however we have encountered countless glitches (most of which just so happen to occur in the middle of our very busy dinner rushes!). As a hostess (being the one that uses the system most frequently) I would consider this update a down grade. The system requires multiple refreshes just to get it back to how the screen should look. It hides reservations from initial view, “deletes guest history”-as in it won’t show a guest’s history and then when I add the guest back in, it will sync with it’s old information, so the information was in there all along. The reservation list glitches and makes it so that you cannot drag the reservations, you have to search it in the bar and then drag it. Overall, with all the issues we have been having, it makes it very difficult to use this system on busy nights, which is just about every night. Please fix these issues soon!!

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This takes way longer and twice as many key strokes than the old/original version on a computer; not the app version. This is glitchy and we have found several times that the information overlaps other guest information, guest visits wrong from one visit to the next, have called the help desk for major issues and have been told that the issues we have only happen to 3% of the OpenTable community. Issues reported were never resolved even months later. Feedback option seems to go nowhere as none of the issues are ever fixed. Look into a different program and dump OpenTable Guest Center. I think they made a deal with Apple, so they don’t have to pay for equipment anymore. Then they hired a bunch of young app designers who have zero restaurant experience to develop this and save money. Oh, and you will need to buy new iPads every 4 years or so. What a great deal between OT & Apple!