G-Guest for restaurants & cafés
Direct reservations that confirm themselves.
Guests see real table availability and are confirmed on the spot, without anyone answering the phone mid-service. Want them to confirm, or to leave a deposit first? Switch it on. We build the reservation page it runs on, and build it so an AI assistant can read it and complete a booking too.
€49 a month per location, and nothing per cover
No card. No call. We set it up for you.
Taking real bookings in a working restaurant todayWant to try it yourself? The demo below is ours, and it books for real.G-Guest takes the booking, holds the table and remembers the guest. It does not hold your money or run your POS: a prepayment, if you want one, goes straight to your own Stripe.
- Tables & seatings
- Party sizes
- Waitlist
- Guest book
- Reviews
At a glance
The first 25 reservations are on us, because we’re sure
We set your page up in a day and place the link on Google, Instagram and your site. Your first 25 confirmed reservations are free, for up to 60 days; then €49 a month, no commission. No card, not a cent until then. And the page is yours to keep: it stays online even if you don’t stay. Your page, the form and every letter to a guest speak eight languages, and the guest gets theirs: we translate, you do nothing.
Live on this page, not a mockup
Book a table right now
The real G-Guest widget, running against a demo restaurant. Pick a night, a time and a party size, exactly what your guests would see.
A two-seat table is never offered to a party of six, and a taken slot cannot be booked twice. Your tables, your seatings, your rules.
Your side of it
And this is what you see
One screen for the evening. It opens by a link, with no password and nothing to install, on whatever phone is behind the bar.
Tonight, at a glance
Who is coming, at what time, for how many, with their note. Add a walk-in in two taps.
Two buttons that matter
Done when they leave, and the review ask goes out by itself an hour later. No-show keeps your book honest.
Closing early on Monday
Close the window and it stops being offered. Anyone already booked is told, without you writing to them.
And the second screen, the one that pays for the first
Every direct booking builds your guest list by itself. The system counts visits and marks the people worth greeting by name.
returned after the second visit, regular once they are properly yours. Export the whole list to CSV any time you like, including the day you leave.
An evening at your place
Three moments that cost restaurants money
19:40 · mid-service
The phone rings, and a table waits
Every call answered during service is a guest ignored in the room. G-Guest confirms bookings by itself, instantly, by email or Telegram, while your floor stays with the people who already came.
17:00 · before service
A four-top cancels for prime time
Prime slots don't refill themselves. The waitlist works the queue oldest-first, and the table is back on sale before the first seating, and nobody on your team phones anyone.
every month
Your regulars belong to a platform
Marketplace bookings keep the guest's history on their side. Direct bookings build your book: visits, usual table, “window seat, no nuts”, exportable in one click and yours for good.
The whole guest journey
Book. Fill. Know. Review. Return
01Book
Real table availability, instant confirmation by default, for guests and for their AI assistants.
02Fill
A cancelled table goes to the waitlist queue, oldest request first.
03Know
Covers and visits, not just bookings: who's new, who's becoming a regular.
04Review
After dinner, a quiet ask, routed across the platforms you choose.
05Return
With consent, invite the right guests back, and stay silent when it's too soon.
Your rules
Not every reservation needs a deposit
If instant reservations work for you, keep them. When a night calls for it, ask guests to confirm, or take a prepayment per reservation or per guest. Unpaid holds expire by themselves.
Instant booking
DefaultConfirmed on the spot
- Picks a time
- Confirmed
Nothing to switch on. This is how G-Guest works out of the box.
Guest confirmation
One tap from the guest
- Picks a time
- Taps the link in the email
- Confirmed
Not tapped in time? The slot goes back on sale by itself.
Prepayment
Confirmed by the payment
- Picks a time
- Pays into your Stripe
- Confirmed
The payment is the confirmation. No second step, even with guest confirmation on.
Not paid in time: the slot goes back on sale, nothing is charged.
* Online prepayment needs your own Stripe account, available to venues in every EU country, the UK, Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein and the US. Stripe's processing fees apply; G-Guest adds no fee of its own. You don't need Stripe to use G-Guest.
Measured, not promised
Built for people. Ready for their AI
AI assistants already recommend restaurants. Booking is where they stop, and we measured exactly where, on 200 Amsterdam restaurants, one method, one week.
Measured, Amsterdam 2026
Every step loses half the restaurants
We ran 200 Amsterdam restaurants through the same checks, in the same conditions, on the same day. This is how far each one gets before an assistant runs out of road.
↓ 84 drop out here
↓ 47 drop out here
↓ 16 drop out here
↓ 16 drop out here
G-Guest sits on this last rung. Not one restaurant in the sample publishes a booking interface an assistant can call. Ours does, and independent agents have used it to create confirmed reservations.
n=200 · random sample, fixed seed · Amsterdam municipality · July 2026 · no reservation was ever submitted
People asking AI to find a local business
6%
a year ago
45%
this year · BrightLocal, 2026
?
next year
And yet: of 163 random restaurants’ websites in our field study, 0% could be booked by an assistant.
Right now those assistants cannot see you, so they recommend the place next door instead. Not because it is better: because it can be booked. We make you readable, and bookable, from day one.
No implementation project
How it starts
One short message from you. The rest is ours.
Tell us what gets booked
Your tables and how many they seat, your hours, your seatings: one message or a photo of the floor plan is enough.
We set everything up
Your public page, your real availability, confirmations and reminders, all configured for you. Nothing to install.
You're live in a day or two
We run a test booking together, and from then on bookings confirm themselves.
One flat price. No fee every time you succeed
G-Guest is a restaurant booking system: direct table bookings, a waitlist and a guest book, flat at €49 a month + tax. Cancel any month.
Flat means the busier you get, the cheaper it gets: a hundred bookings a month is €0.49 a booking. Every model that charges per booking works the other way round.
A reservation platform
Hundreds a month. Some also take a fee for every seated guest they send you, so a full house becomes your most expensive night; others skip the cover fee and sell you the demand itself. Either way the bill grows with the room.
A request form
Free, and it books nothing: somebody still reads every request, checks the book and writes back, usually you, usually at eleven at night.
G-Guest
€49 flat however full you get. Direct table bookings, a waitlist that refills cancellations, a guest book that is yours, deposits only if you want them, straight into your own Stripe, and we set it all up for you.
- Tables, seatings and party sizes, never over-booked
- Your own booking page, live from day one, no website required
- The same form on your own website: a widget you style to match it, your colours, light or dark, inline or a button, and in the language your page is written in
- A waitlist that resells cancelled tables
- A guest book of visits, tables and notes, yours to export
- Review requests after dinner, across the platforms you choose
- Return invitations with consent, and a silence rule
- Optional prepayment, per reservation or per guest, straight into your own Stripe (confirmed automatically, nothing to check by hand)
- Booking alerts on the phones that run the floor
- Readable and bookable by AI assistants
- Your concierge: a human on Telegram, tables, hours and the widget set up for you
€49 /mo + tax
Local tax added at checkout where it applies. Cancel any month, and your guest base exports with you. Everything stays yours.
One month of bookings
G-Guest
The same at the end of the month as at the start.
€49
A per-booking model
and climbing
A monthly fee that rises with every one of these, by cover fee or by a bigger plan.
A good month costs you more everywhere else. Here a good month is just a good month.
FAQ
Restaurant booking system: questions owners ask
I already take bookings somewhere else. What happens to them?
Nothing, and that is the point: you do not migrate anything on day one. Keep taking bookings where you take them now. One rule: never offer the same table in both places. Nothing syncs between us and your current book, and a table sold twice is the worst first night you could have. Give G-Guest its own tables or its own quieter days, and leave the rest where it is. Your existing reservations stay where they are; the ones that come through here start building a book that is yours. When you are ready to switch the link on your site and your Google profile, we do that part for you.
Google and Instagram give me a booking link for free. Why pay for a booking system?
A link is not a booking system. A free form takes a request; somebody still has to read it, check the book and write back, and until they do the table is neither held nor sold. What €49 buys is the part after the request: real availability, a table that cannot be booked twice, a waitlist that resells cancellations, reminders that cut no-shows, and a guest book that is yours. And it is the same €49 whether you take ten bookings or four hundred.
Who owns the guest list?
You do, without an asterisk. Names, contacts, visits, tables, notes: export it as a CSV whenever you like, including on the day you leave. We do not sell your guests back to you, and there is no marketplace here that could.
Can it handle table sizes and seatings?
Yes, that is the core of it. Tell it a table seats two and it will never be offered to a party of six; a taken slot cannot be booked twice. Seatings, party sizes and your own dining-room logic are the rules the system runs on.
Our site is in two languages. What happens to the booking form?
It follows the page. On your English page the form is in English; on the other one it is in that language, and if a guest switches language halfway through, the form switches with them without losing what they have already typed. You set nothing up and paste nothing extra: we build a language once, and from then on it is there for every venue in that country. Your own words stay yours , the name of the place, your tables and seatings, and anything you wrote yourself is never machine translated. Days and months come out in the right language by themselves. Eight languages today: English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Indonesian and Bulgarian. And the guest's confirmation, the reminders and the page where they change or cancel arrive in the language they booked in.
What happens when somebody cancels a table?
The table goes back on sale immediately, and if anyone joined the waitlist for that night the queue is worked oldest first, one guest per opening. A cancellation is also not counted as a visit, so your regulars list stays honest.
Do we have to take deposits?
No. Leave prepayment and guest confirmation switched off and every guest gets an instant confirmation. You can run G-Guest without a Stripe account at all; Stripe only comes in if you decide to take prepayments.
Can guests confirm without paying?
Yes. Guest confirmation and prepayment are separate switches. Ask guests to confirm with one tap and take no money, or take a prepayment, in which case the payment itself is the confirmation and there is no second step.
Where does a prepayment go, and who refunds it?
Straight into your own Stripe account. G-Guest does not hold or forward the money and takes no percentage; Stripe's own processing fee applies. Guests see your refund terms before they pay, and refunds are yours to make in Stripe, where every payment carries the booking's reference.
Can we charge a card if someone doesn't turn up?
No. G-Guest takes a payment at the moment of booking, it does not keep a card on file to charge later. Reminders with a one-tap *“I'll be there”* and a waitlist that resells the table are what handle no-shows.
What does it do about no-shows?
Day-before and hour-before reminders with a one-tap *“I'll be there”* cut them down, and the ones that still happen are marked. They never inflate anyone's visit history.
We take bookings by phone and Instagram. Why change?
Keep both. This does not replace your phone. It removes the need for it: a booking confirms itself at midnight as easily as mid-service, and a walk-in is added in two taps. What changes is that every direct booking now builds your guest list, ready to export anytime.
Will my guests cope with it?
There is nothing to cope with. No account, no app, no password: pick a date, a time and how many, leave a name and a phone, and the table is confirmed on the spot, with a link in the email that moves or cancels it without phoning you. It is simple enough for an AI assistant to do, which is why a person can do it in twenty seconds.
How long until it is actually working?
A day or two, and almost none of it is yours. Send one message with your tables, your hours and your seatings, or a photo of the floor plan. We set the rest up, run a test booking together, and from then on bookings confirm themselves.
And if I want to leave?
Cancel any month, no notice and no call to keep you. Your guest list exports with you. The page we built stays online with your name, address and hours, so nobody lands on a dead link, and it stops taking bookings until you come back and switch it on again, which you can do any time.
For restaurants & cafés