SimpleHost
SimpleHost
Only open the patio on weekends, keep the back room for Friday nights, or shut a section when you are short-staffed. Simple Host closes the tables for you, on the floor plan and on your online booking page.
Close an entire room in one step, or tap the exact tables you want closed right on your floor plan.
Pick the days and the hours for each day in 30-minute steps. Hours can run past midnight, like 7:30 PM to 2 AM.
Add single dates or date ranges from a calendar for holidays, private events, renovations, or seasonal closings.
Choose what each closure blocks: online booking, reservations your staff make, walk-in seating, or any mix of the three.
Busier than expected? Open a closed section for today with one tap. Quiet night? Close it for today instead.
Closed tables are dimmed on the floor plan, or hidden completely if you prefer, so hosts never seat a closed section by mistake.
Create a closure from the Close Tables panel
Pick a whole room, or switch to Select Tables and tap the tables you want closed on the floor plan.
Tap the closed days and set the hours for each one, or add closed dates and date ranges from the calendar.
Turn on Online, In-house, and Seating to decide whether guests can book online, staff can reserve, and hosts can seat walk-ins.
The closure applies right away on every device and on your online booking page. Edit, pause for today, or remove it any time.
Open the patio only on weekends or in summer without remembering to block it every day.
Close a room for a party on a specific date so no one books it online or seats walk-ins there.
Close a section when you are down a server and keep the floor manageable.
Guests booking online are only offered tables that are open at the time they want.
Closed tables are left out of wait-time quotes, so you do not promise a table that is not available.
Each closure shows reservations already booked during its closed hours, so you can move them before the night starts.
Yes. Choose Select Tables and tap the tables you want closed on the floor plan. The rest of the room stays open.
No. When a closure is set to block Online, your booking page only offers tables that are open at the time the guest picks. A booking that starts before the closure begins is still allowed.
Yes. Set the hours from, for example, 7:30 PM to 2 AM and the tables stay closed until 2 AM the next morning.
The app warns that the table is closed and asks before seating. You can also turn on a setting that blocks seating at closed tables completely.
Yes. Tap Open for today on the closure. It goes back to its normal schedule tomorrow. Close for today works the same way.
Yes. Closing tables is its own permission in staff logins, so you decide who can create, edit, or remove closures.
Yes. A closure made on one device shows up on every iPad, phone, and computer signed in to your restaurant right away.
Set up your first closure in under a minute. Free 7-day trial.