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Restaurant

Every table, every ticket, every guest message, running as one system.

We built a restaurant an operations platform that unifies the floor, the kitchen, guest messaging and the books, live table status, AI-handled guest requests, and a kitchen display that never loses a ticket.

Owner interfaceLive operation
app.flowatik.com/restaurant
Restaurant dashboard with tonight's covers pace, revenue and service-time KPIs, and a live table map.
Before the system

One dining room. Five disconnected tools.

01

A host tracks reservations and walk-ins from memory while the kitchen runs its own paper tickets, the till handles payments on its own, and guest messages pile up across WhatsApp and Instagram with no one clearly owning them.

02

By the time a manager wants to know what actually happened tonight, covers, stockouts, who was overloaded, the moment has already passed and the only record is whoever remembered to write it down.

Module 011/3

AI guest concierge & reservations

Every guest message and booking, one home.

Flow answers on WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger and web chat, drafts replies for incoming requests, and keeps reservations, the waitlist and table assignment in the same flow.

  • Unified inbox across WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger & web chat
  • AI-drafted replies for incoming requests, ready to send
  • Reservations, waitlist and table assignment in one flow
module.flowatik.com/guestconcierge
Restaurant unified guest inbox across WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger and web chat.
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Live floor & kitchen sync

The floor and the kitchen, always in sync.

A real-time table map, a kitchen display timed to target, and staff scheduling all live in the same system, so nothing gets lost between the dining room and the pass.

  • Real-time table map with status, server and elapsed time
  • Kitchen display grouped by ticket status, timed to target
  • Staff rota and live crew workload in the same view
module.flowatik.com/liveservice
Restaurant real-time table map by section showing table status, server, and time elapsed.
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Menu, payments & insights

What's selling, what's owed, what's next.

Ingredient tracking flags a dish before it runs out, every bill and payment is logged automatically, and reporting rolls it all up, revenue, dish performance and reviews, in one place.

  • Live ingredient tracking that flags dishes before they run out
  • Every open bill, payment method and void logged automatically
  • Revenue, dish performance and guest reviews in one report
module.flowatik.com/menuinsights
Restaurant analytics with a revenue-by-hour heatmap and dish popularity plotted against margin.
Full walkthrough

Every screen in the system.

No mockups. All 21 screens are the actual product the team and their customers use.

Dashboard

Dashboard

The daily command centre: tonight's covers-per-hour pace, revenue and service-time KPIs, a live table map by section, a prioritised action queue, and a running feed of orders and messages.

Service

Live Floor

The real-time table map by section, showing each table's status, assigned server and time elapsed, with a detail panel for the selected table's order, running bill and guest profile.

Reservations Book

Waitlist

Service Planning

Order Queue

Life after

One dashboard instead of forty chats.

  • One live floor map, host and kitchen always aligned
  • Ingredient stockouts flagged before a dish gets 86'd
  • Flow drafts guest replies across every channel instantly
  • Manager sees revenue, incidents and staffing in real time
Decision engine

The intelligence between every action.

A guest messages to book a table, or a walk-in joins the waitlist. Flow drafts the reply, holds the table, and keeps the kitchen, the floor and the books updated as the night moves, service reports and shift summaries follow automatically.

Example run · Resolved automatically

Trigger

WhatsAppWhatsAppInstagramInstagramMessengerMessenger

Table for 4 tonight around 8?

Triage

Reads the message and checks the guest's history and preferences.

Seat or hold

Assigns a table, joins the waitlist, or holds a reservation slot.

Run the ticket

Sends the order to the kitchen display and tracks it to the pass.

Close & report

Reconciles the bill and rolls it into the shift report.

Resolved to

Google CalendarReservationsStripePaymentsShift report
System footprint

Connected tools.

Every channel, calendar and payment tool the team already uses, wired into one system.

Messaging

WhatsAppWhatsAppInstagramInstagramMessengerMessenger

Scheduling

Google CalendarGoogle Calendar

Payments

StripeStripe

Records

Google SheetsGoogle Sheets
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