Cap how many covers land in any fifteen minutes, hold bigger tables longer, and let ClickBook join tables for a party of six on its own. The diary stops writing cheques the pass can't cash.
the window we pace against, so forty covers never arrive at once because the tables happened to be free.
Most booking systems only ask one question: is a table free? That is how a kitchen ends up with thirty covers ordering at half seven because the room technically had thirty seats. ClickBook asks the second question too. You set the most guests who may arrive in any fifteen, thirty or sixty minutes, and once that is reached the online diary quietly offers the next time instead — while your staff can still override it on the phone, because a regular ringing up is a different situation from a stranger clicking a button.
Set the most covers that may land in a window. The booking page offers around it automatically; nobody sees a rejection, they just see the next sensible time.
A couple and a table of eight do not take the same time. Set a turn per party size and the diary stops double-booking a two-hour table on a ninety-minute rhythm.
A party of six with no six-top gets two fours joined automatically, in the same area, choosing the tightest fit so you don't lose a big table to a small party.
It moves them, it does not refuse them. A guest sees the next time that works instead of the one that would have buried your pass. You keep the booking and the kitchen keeps the night.
Always. Every limit has an override on the staff side, because someone ringing up to add two to a table of six is not the situation the cap was written for.
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