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Logic Table is being built. That is the whole of what we can prove today.

Reservations and table management for restaurants: the book, the floor plan, the covers, the walk-ins and the no-shows. It is the second row of the register and it is not for sale.

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Design impression A woman in a black uniform works at a tablet on a stand at the host desk of a dark, warm dining room; laid tables, a wine wall and daylight through the front doors behind her.
The host desk twenty minutes before service, which is the room Logic Table is being designed for. The screen in this picture is deliberately unreadable — see below.
There is no feature list, no price and no launch date on this page, and the images are not screenshots. They are design impressions: the room, the moment and the mood the product is being designed for. Every screen in them is deliberately illegible, because the product does not exist yet and we are not going to draw an interface we have not built. Publishing a fake screenshot before a product has run a real Saturday night is how software gets sold to people it then disappoints. Logic Table gets a product site — with real screens — when it has earned one, the same way Logic SAT did.

The problem it starts from.

Every reservation product is written from the point of view of the diner. This one starts from the pass at 20:40 on a Saturday, which is a different room with different problems.

Three channels, one head

The phone, the website and the marketplace all take bookings, and the only place they are genuinely reconciled is the memory of whoever is on the door. That works until the person on the door has a night off.

The floor plan is the truth

A booking is not a row in a list, it is a table, for a duration, next to other tables. A tool that cannot see the shape of the room cannot tell you whether 21:15 is actually possible.

No-shows have a number

Empty covers have a number attached to them. If the software cannot show that number at the end of the month, it has not helped anyone decide anything.

Design impression A maître d' in a black suit with an earpiece touches his ear as he takes a call, holding a tablet at the host stand; behind him a full dining room mid-service and a red-shaded lamp.
Mid-service, one hand on an earpiece and the other on a tablet. Anything that needs two hands or a quiet minute has already failed here.

What is already decided.

Features are still moving. These are the house standards Logic Table inherits before a line of it is written, and they are the same ones Logic SAT is held to.

It works when the wifi does not
A dining room does not stop because the router did. The floor state stays usable offline and reconciles when the connection returns.
Guest data stays in the European Union
Diner records are personal data with a marketing temptation attached. They are stored in the EU under GDPR, and erasure is a button in the product.
The restaurant's name on everything
Confirmations and reminders go out from the restaurant, not from a platform the guest has to be introduced to.
The book is yours to take
Bookings and guest history export in full. A reservation system that holds your customer list hostage is a lock-in product wearing a hospitality badge.
Design impression A tablet lies on a dark wooden host stand beside a brass keyring, a paper reservation book with a gold pen, and a glass of foliage.
The paper book is still on the stand, and it will be for a while. Anything that replaces it has to be faster than a pen on a Saturday.
Design impression Over the shoulder of a man in a navy jacket holding a phone at the edge of a busy, softly lit dining room.
The owner is not at a desk. Whatever the room is doing has to be legible on a phone, at arm's length, in this light.
Design impression A man sits alone at a dark wooden table in an empty restaurant after service, holding a tablet showing charts; a glass of water and a closed black notebook beside him.
After service, in an empty room. This is the moment a reservation system either earns its subscription or does not.

The month is where it gets judged.

Any reservation tool looks fine at 20:00 on a Tuesday. The question we are designing against is the one asked in an empty dining room at midnight on the last day of the month: how many covers did we actually turn, what did the no-shows cost, and which nights were we wrong about.

If those three answers are not in the product, everything else it does is bookkeeping. It is also why Logic Table will not ship on the day the floor plan works.

Restaurants shape it. That is stage three.

Before Logic Table is sold to anyone, it runs real services in a small number of real dining rooms. If you would rather be one of those than a customer later, tell us what your room looks like: how many covers, how many channels, and what breaks now.

We will write back to say whether you are a fit, and we will not add you to a mailing list.

Put your restaurant forward What stage three means
Design impression Three staff in black gather around a tablet before service: a manager between two servers, pointing at the screen, with the laid, empty dining room behind them.
The pre-service briefing. If the software cannot survive being read out loud to three people in ninety seconds, it is too complicated.

Nothing to buy here yet.

If you need something today, Logic SAT is the row of the register that is finished, and it is a different problem entirely.

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