A table booking system for food-led pubs
Take lunch, dinner and Sunday bookings on your own page and link, pace the kitchen, and keep phone bookings and walk-ins in the same live book. No commission on any booking, and a straight list of what it does not do yet.
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By TableTango · Last checked 2 November 2026
The short answer
TableTango gives a food-led pub its own booking page and link for its website, Google Business Profile and social pages. Guests book 24/7 by AI chat or a simple form, and your team adds phone bookings and walk-ins to the same live book. It costs £9 per venue a month, or £90 a year paid upfront, after your first 30 days, with no per-booking or per-cover commission and no contract. If your trade is mostly drinks and events, or guests must be able to choose the garden or the snug, read what it does not do yet first.
What it does for a pub
- Your own booking page and link. Put it on your website, Google Business Profile, Facebook and Instagram, and on a printed QR poster for the bar or the tables. Guests book with you, not through a marketplace.
- Lunch and dinner as separate services. Give any day two service windows, such as 12:00 to 14:30 and 17:30 to 21:00, and bookings can't be made in the gap between them.
- Sundays, bank holidays and special dates. Set opening hours for each day of the week, give a special date its own hours (Mother's Day or Christmas Eve, say) and close whole days.
- Kitchen pacing. Cap the covers that can start in each 15, 20, 30 or 60-minute window, so a dozen tables don't all arrive at one o'clock on a Sunday. Online table bookings stay within the cap; your team can still add a booking over it.
- Large groups. Choose the largest party guests can book online, up to 20. Bigger groups are asked to call you, and table combinations you set up let a larger party sit at tables pushed together.
- Set-menu nights and Christmas menus. Put set-menu nights, tasting evenings or a Christmas party menu on your booking page as events, with spaces left and recurring dates. There is no per-ticket fee.
- Private hire. An optional private functions diary records whole-room bookings, such as a function room hired for a party.
- Optional waitlist. An optional waitlist, which uses guest texts: when switched on, a freed table is offered to the next matching guest with a tap-to-claim link.
- Phone bookings, walk-ins and staff devices. Phone bookings and walk-ins go into the same live book in a couple of taps. A shared tablet or phone behind the bar can be a staff device that each team member unlocks with their own PIN.
- Confirmations and reminders. Guests get an email confirmation and a reminder the day before. Guest texts are optional and use prepaid SMS credit.
- Card details for the bookings that matter. No-show Shield and deposits are included at no extra cost and switched on on request. They run through your own Stripe account, so a no-show fee is yours, less Stripe's processing fee.
What it does not do for pubs yet
- One sitting length for the whole venue. The time a table is held is a single setting, from 45 minutes to 2½ hours. A Sunday lunch cannot hold tables longer than a weekday dinner; events can set their own length.
- One set of opening hours. Bookings follow one set of hours for each day, so kitchen hours cannot be set separately from bar hours.
- Guests cannot choose an area. Guests can't choose the garden, the snug or the dining room when they book. They can ask in Special requests; tables are assigned by party size, and you move the booking to another table yourself.
- Guest pages say “restaurant”. The booking page and the booking assistant still describe your venue as a restaurant in places, for example when a large group is asked to contact the restaurant directly.
- One venue, alongside your till. It is built around a single venue's book, with no central reservations across several pubs. It runs alongside your till rather than inside it, and it does not answer the phone for you.
If one of these rules it out for you today, our UK booking systems comparison links to each provider's own pages.
What pub owners ask
Can we take Sunday lunch bookings separately from dinner?
Yes. Give Sunday two service windows, such as 12:00 to 16:00 and 17:30 to 20:30, and guests can only book inside them. The time a table is held is the same for every service, though, so a longer Sunday sitting is not possible yet.
Can guests book a table in the garden?
Not yet. Guests can't choose an area when they book. Tables are assigned by party size, and you can move a booking to a garden table yourself.
Does TableTango take commission on pub bookings?
No. There is no commission and no per-cover fee on any booking. It is £9 per venue a month, or £90 a year paid upfront, and your first 30 days are free from go-live, with no card to start.
Can we take deposits for large groups and Christmas parties?
Deposits and No-show Shield are included at no extra cost and switched on on request, once your venue is live. They run through your own Stripe account under your own policy; Stripe's processing fees apply and TableTango takes no cut.
Does it connect to our till?
No. TableTango runs alongside your till rather than inside it.
See it for yourself
Try the owner demo to see the live book, the floor plan and the booking rules. Planning Sundays? Read our Sunday roast bookings guide. Running set-menu nights? See event booking. Questions? Email hello@tabletango.co.uk.
Your pub's bookings, on your own page.
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