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In recent few years, technology is touching almost everything we think. It becomes more powerful with the attachment of the Internet that facilitates access to anything from anywhere. You just need a medium like a smartphone, tablets, laptops, computers or other electronic devices that connect you with the entire world.

Today's world is based on mobile applications that become much in demand due to its versatile needs in every sphere of users' life. Also, it promotes a facility to get things online, booking tickets, cabs, and even aids the booking of seats at your favourite restaurants that evade you to stand on the long queues.

Now the new trend of online restaurant & table booking platforms is in the market that meets the needs of today’s mobile generation perfectly. With the addition of this new trend, the app OpenTable came into existence. The growing popularity of OpenTable forms an enormous difference in online restaurant & table booking platforms. It’s not a food delivery app. It is an app that facilitates users to make reservations of a table at restaurants as per preferences of time and seats. It claims to cater to more than 16 million people across the world per month.

What features are in OpenTable that become an example of other Restaurant's Reservation Apps?

• OpenTable helps diners to swiftly find a good place from more than 46,000 restaurants.
• It facilitates location-based search, booking history, and user-generated reviews.
• It facilitates quick registration by email address, phone number, Facebook or Google account that attracts local restaurants to connect with OpenTable.
• It uses filters that allow users to choose dining preferences as per location and cuisine.
• It also facilitates location tracking and offers users to search for a restaurant for a specific place.
• OpenTable also allows other restaurant directories, food blogs, and movie venue websites to earn revenue by participating in the OpenTable affiliate program.
• According to a report showed by OpenTable, in the third quarter of 2018, the company seated more than 755 million diners worldwide through its mobile solutions.
• OpenTable users can share their dining experiences and review restaurants on the website and the mobile app that help other diners when choosing restaurants.
• It allows iOS and Android users to pay for their booking via debit card, credit card, Apple Pay or Google Pay.

Understanding of Restaurant Reservation System

A dedicated restaurant app can keep things organized, limit the number of open tables, and as well on reduce waiting time for their customers. Thus developing and maintaining an efficient and reliable Restaurant Reservation System is the key to a successful reservation app. The following are some facts that help you to develop a Restaurant's Reservation App:

• An efficient reservation app gives restaurants owner advance information about how many people will come and at what time.
• The advance information helps the owner to get time to prepare special meals demanded by the diners and facilitate an on-time order on the diners' table.
• It helps the owner to reduce the chance of open tables, thereby reducing their cost and improve profit margin.
• A restaurant app allows the owner to send confirmation detail online so that the owner can send a ‘not available message’ directly through the app.
• It allows the owner to engage with the customers in a more personalized way.
• A dedicated restaurant mobile app helps the owners to market their service in a better way and get better revenue.

Major components of a Restaurant Reservation App

While you are going to develop a restaurant booking app, all the components must be displayed clearly and come with a user-friendly solution. The restaurants' app consists of two major components with specific features:

User Panel

This component of the app is for the user where he/she can avail of the app facility as per requirement.

1. The app must contain the home page that has a signup option for new users and a log in option for already-registered users.
2. After a successful login, the app must offer options to the users to browse the restaurants, its menu, and seat availability.
3. Then the app must display the price, location or specialties as per selected restaurants.
4. After that, the user must get the facility to book a table in advance and submit the number of persons.
5. After confirming the booking, the app users should get the confirmed notification of the reservation.

Admin Panel

The admin panel is as essential as the user panel. It permits the service provider to control the overall operation from a central location.

• The essential work for the admin panel is to update the real-time table (Occupied or unoccupied table options) options onto the system.
• The admin panel needs to make a strategy for schemas that increase revenue.
• The admin panel must come with the proper solution for payment methods (debit/credit card, Paytm, mobile wallet, internet banking, and so on).
• Another major feature for the admin panel is to keep the records for booking.
• The admin panel must contain the messaging section where email or SMS are sent to the customers to confirm their booking.
• The admin panel has to watch the cancel bookings and update accordingly into the app.

Final Views

With the above features/ components, it is clear that the Restaurants Reservation app has a dedicated mobile app that delivers several benefits to both the owner of the restaurant and the customers. Thus, for creating a Restaurant Reservation App, make sure that you choose the proficient application developer who has the expertise and experience in developing the Restaurant Booking Apps like OpenTable.