Restaurant & Food Service
Build a restaurant reservation system
Kliv is an AI app builder. Describe the restaurant reservation system you need — table map, seatings, reminders, waitlist, prepaid counter seats, and guest notes — and it builds it on your own domain.
Just enter your idea into the text box and AI will build it for you
What is Kliv?
Kliv isn’t a booking product you configure — it’s an AI that builds software for you.
You describe the app you need in your own words, and Kliv builds it: the database, table rules, booking flow, reminders, waitlist, checkout, guest pages, and admin screens. What you get is a real web app that’s yours, on your own domain. You can use it, change it later by asking for changes, and run it on your own accounts, including your own Stripe account for prepaid seats. It isn’t a template with your name on it.
On this page, that app is a restaurant reservation system. Kliv builds all kinds of web apps; this is one example.
Why build the book around your dining room
A 12-table restaurant with a chef’s counter needs more than a generic booking form. It needs the two seatings kept straight, the 8-top protected from double-booking, allergy notes in front of the kitchen, a waitlist that refills cancellations, and prepaid seats where the no-show policy matters.
Kliv builds the book as your own app. Tables, seatings, guests, reminders, waitlists, and counter seats are records in your database, on your own domain, with your rules enforced by the system.
What the book keeps straight
For a 12-table room, these are the facts under every service.
Tables and floor
Each table has its size and place. A second booking for the same table and seating is refused by the database.
Seatings and service periods
Lunch, early dinner, late dinner, and counter seatings can each have their own timing and capacity.
Reservation records
Party size, allergy notes, anniversaries, and regular status ride the booking onto the night’s sheet.
Prepaid counter seats
A tasting counter can sell like a ticket: eight stools per seating, paid at booking on your own Stripe account.
Reminders and waitlist
Day-before emails with confirm-or-release links catch forgotten bookings. A cancellation can offer the slot to the waitlist by email.
An example: Bea’s 12-table restaurant
Here’s how one restaurant might use it. It’s only an example — you would describe your own floor, seatings, reminders, waitlist, prepaid seats, and guest-note rules.
The room fills without false openings
At noon, the last online booking takes table nine at 19:00. The floor is full, so the site offers the waitlist instead of another reservation.
A cancellation refills from the waitlist
At 15:10, a four-top cancels through the link in their confirmation. The slot offers itself to the waitlist, and 11 minutes later it is booked again.
Reminder emails protect tomorrow’s room
At 17:00, every Saturday booking gets a reminder with a confirm-or-release link. Two release overnight, and the waitlist fills both.
Prepaid counter seats protect the tasting menu
At 18:00, eight prepaid counter seats have eight names and allergy notes. If one guest does not show, the seat was paid at booking.
The chef gets tomorrow’s sheet
At 22:30, tomorrow’s covers, notes, allergies, and regulars arrive in the chef’s inbox on schedule.
Describe what you want to build
Kliv builds from your description, so the more detail you give, the closer the first version. Include table layout, seatings, capacity rules, reminders, waitlist behavior, prepaid seats, and guest notes. Here are three to build on:
Chef’s counter bookings
Two seatings and prepaid stools.
“Build a reservation system for my 12-table restaurant with a chef’s counter. Run two nightly counter seatings at 18:00 and 20:30 with eight prepaid stools each at $165 per seat, send day-before reminders with confirm-or-release links, keep a waitlist, and prevent overlapping bookings for the same table and seating.”
Izakaya table board
Weekend slots and cancel links.
“Build a booking system for my izakaya with tables and counter seats, 90-minute slots on Friday and Saturday, party-size table matching, reminder emails with one-tap cancel links, and a host view showing allergies, birthdays, and regulars.”
Sunday brunch waitlist
Standby list that fills cancellations.
“Build a brunch reservation page with two seatings, party-size table matching, a standby waitlist that fills cancellations automatically by email, and a weekly no-show report for the manager.”
How it comes together
Capacity is arithmetic the database owns. Tables, stools, and seatings are rows with counts, and bookings consume them inside transactions. The room cannot be sold twice.
The counter is commerce. Prepaid tasting seats run through checkout on your own Stripe account. Promotion windows, refund approval, and no-show rules can be part of the same app.
Email handles the front-desk memory. Confirmations, day-before reminders, waitlist offers, and the chef’s morning sheet go out on your templates by scheduled jobs.
You can rehearse service first. Before removing the phone number from the website, a Scenario test can drive the booking flow in a real browser, fill the room, try one more booking, and show what was accepted and refused.
The rest of the main-street picture — local search, regulars, the neighborhood business around the room — starts from the local-business page.
Common questions
What exactly is Kliv?
Kliv is an AI that builds custom web apps from a description. For reservations, that can mean table maps, seatings, booking rules, reminders, waitlists, prepaid seats, guest notes, and admin screens.
Do I get a real app, or a template?
A real app. Kliv builds the database, booking flow, reminders, checkout, and host screens around your dining room.
Can I change it after it’s built?
Yes. You can change table layout, seating times, reminder wording, waitlist rules, counter prices, or guest-note fields later.
Can it stop double-bookings, really?
Yes. A booking consumes a specific table and seating inside a database transaction, so a second booking for the same slot fails.
How do prepaid seats handle no-shows?
A tasting-counter seat is paid at booking, so a no-show forfeits by default unless someone with the right role approves a refund. Ordinary table bookings can stay free.
Do reminders go by text message?
The source flow uses email reminders and waitlist offers on your templates, with confirm and cancel links.
Can guests cancel without calling?
Yes. Confirmations can carry a cancel link, and a cancellation can immediately offer the slot to the waitlist.
Does Kliv take a cut of prepaid seats?
No. Payments run through your own Stripe account. Kliv does not take a percentage of each booking.
Do guests need their own Stripe accounts?
No. Guests just pay by card. Stripe is how money reaches your account.
Can the chef get a daily sheet?
Yes. A scheduled email can send covers by seating, allergy notes, anniversaries, regulars, and counter seat names.
Can I use my own domain?
Yes. The reservation system can run on your own domain.
Do I need a separate booking platform?
No. The public booking page, host view, reminders, waitlist, checkout, and admin can be one app.
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Build the book around the room you actually run
Describe the floor, seatings, counter seats, reminders, waitlist, guest notes, and no-show rules. Kliv builds the reservation system around them.