Works with your current checkout system
Waitlist and reservation tools for busy restaurants.
Waitlist and reservations, live today. Guests book or join from their phone, get SMS or WhatsApp updates, and share one guest history across both.
- Built for food service operators
- Mobile-first for busy shifts
- EN/FR ready for Canada
- Email, SMS, WhatsApp
- Privacy-first guest history
Service nights shouldn't be this hard.
Four daily pains we built StoveOps to remove.
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Walk-ins and bookings split everywhere
Phone calls, DMs and walk-ins create a guest flow your team has to reconcile during service.
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Chaotic waitlist
Guests stand at the door without ETAs and turn into 1-star reviews before tasting the food.
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Manual messaging
Hosts spend the rush typing the same SMS over and over instead of greeting people.
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Forgotten regulars
Guest preferences live in your head — when staff turns over, the relationship resets.
The virtual waitlist built for a packed house.
Guests join in seconds, wait wherever they want, and get an SMS or WhatsApp the moment their table is ready — with ETAs from real seating speed, not guesses.
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Live queue
Add guests in seconds. Status changes propagate to your team instantly.
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Automatic notifications
Email, SMS and WhatsApp — with safe fallbacks so no one stands in the cold.
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ETAs that adjust
Quote times update from real seating speed, not optimistic guesses.
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Mobile-first host
Designed for the device in your host's hand during service.
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Guest history
Recognize repeat guests, preferences and allergies — privacy-first.
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Multi-location ready
Small chains can run several doors without juggling spreadsheets.
Modular by design — add what you need, as you grow.
Waitlist, digital menu, links and reservations are available today — each ships standalone, no big migration.
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Waitlist
AvailableLive queue with multi-channel notifications. Available today.
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Digital menu
AvailableQR menus, allergens, multi-language. Available today.
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Links
AvailableLinktree for restaurants — single source of truth for your guest journey. Available today.
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Reservations
AvailableBookings from your own link, automatic reminders, and arrivals that join the queue without re-registering. Included in the Business plan.
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How it works in 3 steps.
Built to work during service, not only during setup.
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Create your location
Start a 7-day trial and activate the plan that fits your restaurant.
- Basic, Professional and Business plans
- No new hardware required
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Invite your team
The front desk signs in with a magic link — no passwords mid-rush.
- Role-based access for front desk and managers
- Works on the phone or tablet you already have
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Start serving guests
Guests join by link or QR and get notified when their table is ready.
- Live queue: waiting, notified, seated
- Updates by SMS, WhatsApp and email
Built around how you actually work.
Pick the closest workflow to see what StoveOps changes for you.
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Urban bar
- Cut wait-list chaos on Friday nights
- SMS notifications when seats free up
- Multi-host shifts without crossed signals
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Small restaurant
- Run walk-ins and reservations on the same floor, with one guest history
- Quote realistic ETAs from real seating data
- Privacy-first guest history per location
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Coffee shop
- Manage the morning rush with a QR join link
- Text guests when tables turn without shouting names
- Keep repeat-guest notes private and location-aware
Reach guests where they are.
Plans include SMS/WhatsApp allowances plus unlimited email, so hosts can reach guests without turning the rush into manual texting.
- SMS
- Usage tracking
- Host alerts
Bring guests back — coming to the ecosystem.
The CX module will automate follow-ups, reminders and feedback so guests come back — no extra work for your team. In build — join the list to be notified.
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Email follow-ups
Automatic thank-you and win-back emails after each visit, so guests remember you.
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SMS reminders
Timely text reminders that cut no-shows and keep tables turning.
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NPS surveys
One-tap satisfaction surveys that surface unhappy guests before they post a review.
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Simple pricing. Real value.
Start a 7-day trial. Upgrade when your locations, messaging or marketing needs grow.
StoveOps Basic covers one location with 500 SMS/WhatsApp messages a month. Professional and Business add more locations, rollover, campaigns and better messaging economics.
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Basic
One location, live waitlist, mini-site and enough messaging to prove value.
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Professional
Three locations, campaigns, guest CRM and stronger messaging limits.
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Business
Ten locations, priority support, team roles and the best overage rate.
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The roadmap, no fluff.
Built with operators — what fixes your floor ships first.
- Now Waitlist
- Now Digital menu
- Now Links
- Now Reservations
More modules in the oven — they ship when they're ready:
No date promises, no fake countdowns — each one ships when it's genuinely ready.
- CX
- Staff
- Payments
- Rewards
Frequently asked questions
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What is StoveOps?
StoveOps is an operations platform for restaurants and bars. Today you run a live virtual waitlist, a QR digital menu and a guest links page — all sharing one guest history.
Everything runs in the browser on the phone or tablet you already have, so there’s nothing new to install.
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What kind of venue is StoveOps for?
Restaurants, bars and cafés — from a single room to small multi-location groups — especially teams still running the waitlist on paper, a clipboard or scattered apps.
It fits independent venues and small groups, not only large chains.
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Do guests need to download an app?
No. Guests join the waitlist from their own phone through a link or a QR code at the door — no app to install and no account to create.
Anyone with a phone browser can join, which keeps the line moving and the doorway clear.
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How are guests notified?
By email, SMS, WhatsApp and browser push — for example when they join the queue, when their table is almost ready, and when it's time to come back.
Email is unlimited on every plan; SMS and WhatsApp use your plan’s monthly allowance, and guests confirm with one tap.
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Does StoveOps help reduce no-shows?
Yes. Guests get timely updates, confirm their spot with one tap, and visit history flags repeat no-shows — so fewer tables sit empty during a full service.
Over time you can see who reliably shows up and plan a busy service around it.
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Can I start with just the waitlist?
Yes. Every module works on its own. Most venues start with the live waitlist and switch on the digital menu or links page later — no migration needed.
Start with the one problem that hurts most today; the rest is there when you’re ready.
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Do I need to replace my POS?
No. StoveOps runs alongside the checkout system you already use — it doesn't replace it and doesn't handle payments. It can also run on its own.
It manages your front-of-house flow while your checkout system keeps ringing up payments — no new hardware, no migration.
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Does it work for more than one location?
Yes. Professional covers up to 3 locations and Business up to 10, with guest history, team roles and reporting in one account.
Each location runs its own service, but managers see the whole group from a single login.
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How do guests book a table?
They pick a date, time and party size on your restaurant's booking link — no app and no account. The slot is held for a few minutes while they finish, and they confirm with a name plus a phone or email.
Your team can also take a booking at the host stand, so calls that come in during service land in the same place as the ones guests make themselves.
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Is it hard to learn, and how many people can use it?
No. It's simple enough that most teams run it the same night with no long training, and your whole team can use it at the same time — each from whatever device they have, whether a phone, tablet or computer.
Access is role-based, so managers, hosts and the front desk each see only what they need, and several people can work at once during a busy service.
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How does the team sign in during service?
With a magic link sent to their email — one tap, no passwords to type or reset mid-rush — and access is role-based, so the front desk and managers each see what they need.
No sticky-note passwords on shared devices, and you decide who can change settings.
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How much does StoveOps cost?
Three self-serve plans with monthly or annual billing. Annual billing saves 20%, and every plan includes a 7-day trial.
You start on the trial and move up only when your locations or messaging actually grow.
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Is my guest data private and secure?
Yes. Your guest data is yours and we don't sell it. It stays isolated to your account, sensitive personal details are cleared automatically on a schedule, and every access is logged.
It’s built around modern privacy regulations — like the GDPR, Brazil’s LGPD and Quebec’s Law 25 — and you stay in control of what’s kept and for how long.
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What if the monthly SMS allowance runs out?
Nothing breaks. Notifications fall back to WhatsApp, email and browser push automatically, and the front desk is alerted to call the guest if a message really needs to land.
Email is unlimited on every plan, so running out of SMS usually just means it’s time to size up a plan.
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Why don't you ask for a credit card up front?
Because you should see it work first. You start a 7-day trial with no credit card and no sales call — you only add payment if the waitlist proves itself on a real service.
Decide after a real busy night, not before.
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Can I cancel anytime, and what happens to my data?
Yes, you can cancel anytime — there's no lock-in contract. Your guest data stays yours, so you can export it or ask for it to be deleted.
Export your guest list before you go, or ask us to delete it — either way the data is yours, not something you rent back from us.
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Can guests change or cancel a reservation themselves?
Yes. Every booking gets its own link where the guest can cancel, move to another time, or check in on arrival — no phone call and no waiting on a host.
Rescheduling only ever offers times you actually have open, so a guest changing plans can never oversell the floor. Cancellations inside your cutoff — two hours before the table by default — go to the restaurant instead of happening silently.
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How far ahead can guests book, and for how many people?
Out of the box, up to 60 days ahead, at least 30 minutes before the table, for parties of 1 to 12 online. Every one of those limits is yours to change, per location.
Bigger parties and last-minute exceptions stay possible — your team can book them from inside the restaurant even when the public form would turn them away.
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What do I need to set up before opening reservations?
Five things — a bookable area, an active table, a service period, a turn time and a pacing rule. StoveOps refuses to publish public booking until all five exist, so you never open a broken form.
The setup screen shows which of the five are still missing and links straight to where each one is fixed, so a first-time setup is a checklist rather than a guess.
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What happens when the time a guest wants is full?
The guest can register interest in that date and time. When a table opens up, StoveOps sends an offer with a deadline, and the first guest to confirm takes the slot.
That turns a cancellation into covers instead of an empty table. It is opt-in — a guest only hears from you about the slot they asked about, and can opt out from the same link.
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Do reservations and the waitlist work together?
Yes. When a booked party arrives and the table is not ready, the host puts them in the queue without re-registering anyone — same visit, same guest history, same message thread.
Leaving the queue and cancelling dinner are deliberately different actions. A party that gives up waiting still has its reservation, and a cancelled booking never leaves a stale queue entry behind.
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Can I move my existing reservations into StoveOps?
Yes. Upload a CSV from your current system, map your columns to StoveOps fields, and review exactly what will be created before anything is applied.
Nothing is written until you approve the review step, so a bad column mapping is something you catch on screen instead of in your dining room.
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Which plan includes reservations?
Reservations come with the Business plan. Waitlist, digital menu and links are on every plan, so you can start smaller and move up when you want to take bookings too.
Because each module stands alone, moving up is an upgrade rather than a migration — your guest history, menu and links stay exactly as they are.