Tasting menus, supper clubs, set-menu nights, wine dinners, live-music brunches — the nights that fill your room when you sell the seats, not just the tables. TableTango runs them straight from your own booking page, beside your normal reservations: pick a seating, watch the spots count down, sell it out. No ticketing platform, no per-ticket cut, no separate listing to manage.
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A normal booking takes a table. An event sells a place at a specific thing on a specific night — so it needs spots-left, a price per head and a way to sell out. These are the nights independents make real money on, and the ones a plain booking form or a phone diary handle worst.
There's nothing extra for a guest to download or sign up to. On your booking page they tap from "Reserve a table" to "Special events", pick a night and a seating, and book — the same flow as a normal table.
One night or a whole run. Give an event a single date, several seatings (say 6pm and 8.30pm), or repeat it every week — each date tracks its own spots independently.
Every guest sees how many places remain and a running total as they fill. When a night's gone, it shows sold-out — no awkward "actually, we're full" replies.
Hold the whole venue for a private night, hold specific tables while the rest of the room takes normal bookings, or hold nothing and just count heads. Your call, per event.
Hold specific tables and TableTango gives each party a best-fit table for the event's own duration — and never sits two different parties on the same table.
Event bookings get the same confirmation text/email and day-before reminder — named for the event. Sold out? Switch on an event waitlist so keen guests can register.
Guests get a tap-to-add calendar invite (.ics). If you ever have to call a night off, one action cancels it and texts every booked guest automatically.
On the dashboard you get an event roster for each night — every guest, party size, contact details and whether their reminder's gone out — plus the usual seat and manage buttons, so an event runs exactly like the rest of your service.
Ticketing platforms exist to take a slice of every ticket you sell — that's their model. TableTango's isn't. Events are included in the same flat £49 a month as your normal bookings, with no per-ticket or per-cover fee, so a sold-out supper club costs you exactly the same as a quiet Tuesday. The guest list is yours, the door price is yours, and the night you worked hard to fill stays entirely yours.
A note on payment, honestly: today an event booking reserves the seat and shows the price per head, but the guest doesn't pay online — you take payment your usual way. Online payment and card deposits for events are on our roadmap for when we launch card payments. More on the flat-fee thinking on the no-commission booking system page.
Three ways to sell a night out — but only one of them lives inside your restaurant's actual book. (Specific platform prices move around and are often quote-only, so we've stuck to the models, not anyone's numbers.)
| TableTango | A free form | A ticketing platform | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where the event lives | On your own booking page, beside your tables | A separate form | A separate listing off-site |
| Fee per ticket sold | None — included in £49 flat | Free | Typically a per-ticket fee |
| Live spots-left & sold-out | Yes | No | Usually |
| Knows your floor & tables | Holds whole venue or specific tables | No | No — sits apart from your book |
| Multiple seatings & recurring dates | Built in | No | Varies |
| Confirmation + reminder texts/emails | Included | Manual | Varies |
| Event waitlist when sold out | Yes | No | Varies |
| If you cancel the night | Booked guests texted automatically | You ring round | Varies |
| Your attendee data | Stays 100% yours | Yours (your spreadsheet) | The platform may hold it |
Ticketing platforms have a genuine strength — discovery, putting a one-off night in front of strangers. Where TableTango wins is the everyday: events sold to your own audience, on your own page, with no slice taken and the booking sitting right next to the rest of your service.
In your dashboard you name the event, set the date (or a recurring schedule), the seatings, how many spots and an optional price per head, write a short description, choose how it holds tables — and publish. It appears on your booking page straight away under "Special events". You can edit it in place, see the roster, and switch on a waitlist whenever you like. There's an AI setup helper if you'd rather be walked through it. — Graham
£49/month flat, per restaurant — events included, no per-ticket fee. 30-day free trial, no card up front, no contract, cancel anytime. Questions first? sales@tabletango.co.uk — a real person replies within a working day.
Anything you sell a seat to rather than just take a table booking for: tasting menus, supper clubs, set-menu nights, wine dinners, themed nights, live-music brunches, quiz nights, masterclasses, festive menus. You set the date, the time (or several seatings), how many spots there are and an optional price per head, and it appears on your own booking page next to your normal tables.
Not yet — and we won't pretend otherwise. Today an event booking reserves the seat and shows the price per head, but the guest doesn't pay online; you take payment your usual way, on the night or however you already do it. Online payment and card deposits for events are on our roadmap for when we launch card payments.
You choose how the event holds space. Hold the whole venue and normal bookings pause for that slot. Hold specific tables and those tables drop out of normal availability for the event's window while the rest of the room keeps taking reservations — TableTango then gives each party a best-fit table and never sits two different parties on the same one. Or hold nothing and just track a headcount. Each event also has its own duration, defaulting to your normal turn-time.
Yes. An event can repeat on a schedule — every Sunday, say — or run on a list of specific dates, and each date can have more than one seating. Guests pick the date and seating that suits them, and each one tracks its own spots-left independently, so a sold-out Sunday doesn't affect the next one.
A full date shows as sold-out, and you can switch on an event waitlist so keen guests register interest. If you ever have to call a night off, you cancel it in the dashboard and TableTango texts every booked guest automatically — no ringing round, no awkward gaps.
No per-ticket or per-cover fee — events are part of the flat £49 a month, and confirmation and reminder messages are included under the same fair-use guide as your normal bookings. To a guest it's just a tab on your booking page: premium event cards, spots-left, a calendar invite and the same confirmation they'd get for a table. Prices exclude VAT — none is added while we're not VAT-registered, and most restaurants reclaim it if it ever applies.
Events, seatings, recurring dates, spots-left and a waitlist — included in £49/month flat. 30 days free, no card, no per-ticket cut.
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