Break point 1
Guest context disappears
Preferences, visit history, VIP notes, and service recovery details live in separate systems or in a manager's memory.
For restaurant groups, breweries, event venues, and multi-location operators
Restaurant CRM that connects every guest journey.
We build a custom restaurant CRM around the way your team takes reservations, manages events, serves regulars, handles tasks, and follows up—without forcing you to replace every tool at once.
Custom software and AI built around your team. Start with the customer records, scheduling, follow-up, or reporting that would make the biggest difference.
YOUR BUSINESS. WITH AI BUILT IN.Watch AI do the work
Juniper & SaltNEIGHBORHOOD KITCHEN
DINNER SERVICE / MAIN DINING ROOM
AI remembers the guest. Your team makes the moment.
Morgan · party of 47:30 PM · Anniversary dinner
Voice noteAI assistantYour app
INCOMING GUEST CALLNEW
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Morgan · Guest voicemailVoice → text · Example transcript
Could we book for four at 7:30? It’s our anniversary. We loved the window table last time. One of us is vegetarian.
VOICE NOTE
Request captured. Connecting the useful details…
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Best fit
Independent restaurants, restaurant groups, breweries and beer gardens, event venues, and multi-location operators whose guest and operating data is split across the POS, reservation system, spreadsheets, and staff messages.
The operating problem
Where work gets lost between your tools
Your POS records the sale, your reservation platform records the booking, and your team carries the context between them. That leaves managers without one reliable view of the guest, event, task, or next action.
Break point 2
Events require manual chasing
Inquiry details, proposals, deposits, menus, room assignments, and follow-ups move through email threads and spreadsheets.
Break point 3
Managers react too late
Inventory exceptions, open tasks, missed follow-ups, and location performance are difficult to see before they affect service.
One connected workflow
Guest inquiry to repeat visit
One record moves forward. Each stage has a current status, a responsible owner, and a next action.
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Capture
Collect reservations, event inquiries, guest details, and source attribution.
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Coordinate
Assign the table, event, task, owner, deadline, menu, and deposit status.
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Serve
Give front- and back-of-house teams the current context and next action.
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Retain
Trigger review requests, service recovery, loyalty, and return-visit follow-up.
Recommended modules
Modules we can build for your restaurants & bars business
These are examples of what we can build and connect around your customer and work records. Together, we choose the modules that address your biggest need and confirm integrations before work begins.
MODULE 01
Guest Profiles & Preferences
Automatically build rich guest profiles from every touchpoint — online orders, reservations, loyalty check-ins. Know their favorite dishes, dietary restrictions, and visit frequency without asking.
MODULE 02
Reservation & Waitlist Management
Custom booking system with real-time table availability, automated confirmation texts, waitlist management, and no-show tracking — all branded to your restaurant.
MODULE 03
Order Pipeline & Kitchen Display
Track every order from placement to plating. Kitchen display integration shows your team exactly what to prepare, with timing coordinated across courses.
MODULE 04
Loyalty & Rewards Engine
Design your own rewards program — points per visit, birthday perks, VIP tiers. Customers engage with YOUR brand, not a third-party app, and you own every data point.
MODULE 05
Marketing Automation Hub
Send targeted campaigns based on actual behavior — re-engage lapsed customers, promote slow nights to regulars, trigger birthday offers automatically. No more spray-and-pray.
MODULE 06
Revenue & Performance Dashboard
Real-time sales by day, item, server, and channel. See what's working, what's not, and make decisions with data instead of gut feeling.
Business benefit
What changes for the owner, the team, and the customer
A clearer shift
Managers see what is booked, what needs attention, and who owns each action without chasing multiple channels.
A more personal guest experience
Staff can act on visit history and preferences instead of treating every reservation like a first visit.
More usable operating data
Connect guest, event, task, and revenue context so owner reporting answers operational questions.
AI-first Restaurants & Bars CRM
AI does the CRM busywork—and turns the record into an operating advantage.
The intelligence is built into the workflow. It captures context, prepares the next step, watches for risk, and helps operators investigate the business without losing human review or audit history.
AI workflow 01
Event Inquiry Follow-Up
When a private-dining or event inquiry has no proposal, reply, or deposit after a set window, AI drafts the next follow-up from the inquiry details — date, headcount, room, and menu — and flags it for the events lead to approve and send.
CRM context includedHuman review when neededOutcome written back
AI workflow trace
Monitored Signal detected
An event inquiry has no reply or deposit after 48 hours
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AI prepares action
Event Inquiry Follow-Up
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Reviewed outcome
Update the Coordinate stage and keep the record auditable.
AI workflow 02
Automated Customer Re-engagement
When a regular hasn't visited in 3 weeks, AI triggers a personalized offer via text. Not a generic coupon — a message referencing their usual order and a reason to come back.
CRM context includedHuman review when neededOutcome written back
AI workflow trace
Monitored Signal detected
A regular hasn't returned on their usual cadence
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AI prepares action
Automated Customer Re-engagement
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Reviewed outcome
Update the Retain stage and keep the record auditable.
AI workflow 03
AI-Powered Review Responses
AI drafts personalized responses to Google and Yelp reviews in your brand voice. Your manager reviews and sends in seconds instead of spending 30 minutes writing from scratch.
CRM context includedHuman review when neededOutcome written back
AI workflow trace
Monitored Signal detected
A new Google or Yelp review is posted
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AI prepares action
AI-Powered Review Responses
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Reviewed outcome
Update the Retain stage and keep the record auditable.
Ask the operation, not just the dashboard
Owners can ask questions across connected CRM records. Answers show the underlying signals and can open the affected customers, jobs, visits, matters, orders, or properties.
“Which event inquiries are most likely to stall before a deposit?”
“Which regular guests have not returned on their normal cadence?”
“Where are open tasks putting tonight's service at risk?”
Keep useful systems connected
The CRM can connect communication, payment, scheduling, accounting, analytics, and industry systems when their APIs support it.
Toast POSOpenTable / ResyMailchimp / KlaviyoTwilio SMS & VoiceSendGrid EmailStripe PaymentsSquare POSGoogle Business APIOpenAI GPTGoogle AnalyticsDoorDash Drive API
Integration access, data permissions, confidence thresholds, and regulated actions are validated during discovery.
Your current tools
What stays, what we add
Most restaurant groups, breweries, beer gardens, event venues, and multi-location operators do not need to rip out their POS or booking tools. Our approach: keep what works, connect it where the vendor's API or exports allow, and build the guest and event layer those tools do not share. What syncs live is confirmed during scoping, before we quote.
Toast stays
Keep Toast as your POS. We connect guest and check data where its API or exports allow, so the CRM knows who your regulars are.
OpenTable or Resy stays
Keep them for tables. We add direct inquiry capture, a private-event and buyout pipeline, deposits, and follow-up on top.
Mailchimp or Klaviyo: connect or replace
Sync guest segments to the list you already send from, or move sends into the CRM if one system is simpler for your team.
What we add
One guest record across locations and venues, an event pipeline from inquiry to deposit to post-event follow-up, and owner reporting across every site.
Hospitality work
Hospitality work in our portfolio
Restaurant, resort, venue, and casino sites we have built, plus the direct-booking system and CRM we built for a charter operator. Ask for a walkthrough of any of these on the call.
Johnny D's: Restaurant website with online ordering, menu management, and local SEO optimization.
See Johnny D'sALPK Restaurant: Restaurant website with menu, online ordering, and reservation system.
See ALPK RestaurantThe Milestone: Harrisburg restaurant and event venue website with booking and events.
See The MilestoneAllenberry Resort: Complete resort website redesign with booking engine integration, event management, and hospitality-focused UX.
See Allenberry ResortSand Hills Casino: Casino & resort website with gaming info, event calendars, and booking integration.
See Sand Hills CasinoSouth Beach Casino: Casino resort website with entertainment calendar and booking system.
See South Beach CasinoA direct booking website and captain's CRM for Sand Bar Joe's: inquiries, quotes, follow-up, reporting, and content in one connected system.
See the Sand Bar Joe's case study
Restaurants & Bars FAQ
Restaurant CRM questions decision-makers ask
What does custom restaurant operations software manage?
It can connect guest profiles, reservations, private-event inquiries, deposits, staff tasks, inventory exceptions, feedback, and follow-up in one workflow. We scope the modules around the operating problem you need to solve rather than shipping a generic bundle.
Do we have to replace our POS or reservation system?
Usually not. Keep Toast, OpenTable, or Resy if they work for you. A custom operations layer connects to the tools you keep where their APIs or exports allow, centralizes the missing guest and event context, and replaces spreadsheets or manual handoffs first. We confirm what syncs live during scoping.
Does this work for breweries, beer gardens, and event venues?
Yes. The same guest record and event pipeline fit taprooms, beer gardens, and venues that run private events and buyouts. Seasonal hours, large-party inquiries, and several venues under one owner are scoped into the first release where they matter.
Can the system work for multiple restaurant locations?
Yes. We can design location-level permissions, shared guest records, standardized workflows, and owner dashboards while preserving the differences each location needs.
Can it manage private dining and event inquiries?
Yes. An event module can track the inquiry, proposal, menu, room, headcount, deposit, documents, internal tasks, and post-event follow-up from one record.
How do you decide which restaurant modules to build first?
We map where information changes hands, identify the highest-cost gap, and define a first release around that workflow. The goal is a useful operating system that can expand in phases—not a disruptive replacement project.
How does an AI-first CRM help restaurants & bars operators?
An AI-first CRM can maintain the operating record and support workflows such as Event Inquiry Follow-Up, Automated Customer Re-engagement, AI-Powered Review Responses. Actions can use approval rules, confidence thresholds, and audit history. Owners can also investigate connected data with questions such as “Which event inquiries are most likely to stall before a deposit?”
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No generic software pitch
Map the restaurant workflow that is costing you the most attention.
We will review the handoffs between inquiry, reservation or event, service, payment, and follow-up—and identify the smallest useful system to build first.