Launch offerR10 a month for your first 6 months, then R2,000 flat. No per-cover fees.
Restaurant bookings, reinvented for South Africa

Turn diners into regulars.

Regulars is booking, guest intelligence and an AI front-of-house in one. Take reservations from your own site, know every guest who walks in, and let an AI host work WhatsApp around the clock. No marketplace, no per-cover fees.

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The Orchard
Service dashboard
Settings
Sat 27 Jun
TODAYLive · 15:05
Bookings
18
Covers
65
Seated
3
No-shows
0
Cancelled
0
Covers by sittingSeated ■ · Upcoming ■
18:00
18:30
19:00
19:15
19:30
19:45
20:00
All 18Upcoming 15Seated 2+ Add booking
18:00Web
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SeatedR1 600
18:45WhatsApp
TG
Tobias GovenderReturning
ConfirmedSeat
19:15WhatsApp
TV
Tariq van der Merwe
ConfirmedSeat
19:30Phone
JM
Johan MahlanguRegular
ConfirmedSeat
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Book a table
When would you like to come?
TODAY27Jun
SUN28Jun
MON29Jun
How many guests?
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Regulars host · WhatsApp
Any tables for 2 on Saturday night?19:42
Evening! We've 19:15 or 20:30 open on Sat 27 June. Which suits?19:42
19:15 please19:43
✓Table booked
Sat 27 June, 19:15, party of 2. We'll send a reminder the day before.19:43
Make it yours
See every screen in your restaurant's name and colour.
Type your name and pick a colour. The booking widget, dashboard and WhatsApp host above all update live.
Why restaurants are switching

The booking stack was built for the marketplace, not for you.

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No-shows quietly bleed you.
They run 10 to 20% of bookings, and a few empty held tables can wipe a night's profit, yet most reminders still go out by SMS or email.
The marketplace owns your guests.
The incumbent rents you access to its diner app and charges per booking, so the platform, not you, owns the guest relationship and the data.
Your guests live on WhatsApp. Your tools don't.
Around 96% of South African internet users are on WhatsApp, yet no reservation platform here is natively conversational.
A guest list is not guest intelligence.
You can't see who your VIPs are, what they spend, what they order, or what a no-show actually costs you in rands.
One platform, three jobs done

Everything the front of house needs, and nothing it doesn't.

01 · Direct booking

Reservations that come straight to you.

  • ✓An embeddable booking widget that drops into your own website. Guests book on your page, not a marketplace.
  • ✓A pacing engine that protects your kitchen and prevents overbooking by capping covers per slot.
  • ✓A live service dashboard: see the day at a glance, seat tables, capture the bill from a photo, add walk-ins, and move bookings.
  • ✓Automatic confirmations and reminders that cut no-shows, with a one-tap cancel link so freed tables come back to you.
No marketplace in the middle · no per-cover fee
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The Orchard
Book a table
When would you like to come?
TODAY27Jun
SUN28Jun
MON29Jun
How many guests?
1
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See available times  →
✓
You're booked, Sam.
A table is waiting. We can't wait to host you.
DateSat 27 Jun
Time19:15
Party2 guests
Confirmation sent on WhatsApp
02 · Guest intelligence

Know every guest, not just their name.

Every guest is recognised by phone number across visits, so a profile builds itself. Spend, favourites and the rand cost of no-shows all come straight from a photo of the bill.

1Snap the bill
THE ORCHARD · TABLE 7
Burrata185.00
Margherita x2580.00
Carbonara175.00
TOTAL1600.00
Photograph it at the table
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2Items read automatically
1× Burrata AntipastoR185
2× Margherita PizzaR580
1× Carbonara PrimiR175
1× Fillet steak SecondiR295
TotalR1 600
✨ Categorised and priced in seconds
→
3Onto the guest and your menu
S
Sam
+ R1 600 spend logged
Lifetime spendR2 340
FavouriteMargherita
FeedsMenu mix & demand
Automatic segments
146 guests, sorted for you
★ VIP
27
Regular
45
Returning
30
New
21
At risk
3
Lapsed
3
Menu mix
Revenue by category · read from bills
Pizza NapoletanaR35 725 · 21%
Secondi PiattiR30 850 · 18%
Primi PiattiR30 525 · 18%
AntipastoR28 470 · 17%
DolciR20 200 · 12%
ContornoR18 020 · 11%
✦ Ask your data
Plain questions, answers from your live data
Top 5 dishes by revenue, and which are rising?
How many covers should I expect next Saturday?
Which guests are at risk of lapsing?
Ask about covers, dishes, guests...➤
03 · AI front-of-house

A front desk that never clocks off.

  • ✓A native WhatsApp host that answers questions and books tables 24/7, on the channel your guests already use.
  • ✓It confirms and reminds automatically to cut no-shows, so freed tables come back to you.
  • ✓It gives a small team a maître d' that never sleeps, capturing bookings while you run the floor.
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The Orchard
Regulars host · online
Hi, any tables for 2 this Saturday night?19:42
How it works

From booking to a returning regular, on one rail.

1
Guests book
On your site or over WhatsApp, in their own time.
2
Pacing protects
The pacing engine caps covers per slot so the kitchen never drowns.
3
One live view
Every booking lands in one dashboard you run service from.
4
Profiles build
Each visit adds to the guest's profile, spend and favourites.
5
They come back
Reminders and the AI host bring regulars through the door again.
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Try the booking widget · it really works
Date & party
When would you like to come?
TODAY27Jun
SUN28Jun
MON29Jun
TUE30Jun
WED1Jul
How many guests?
1
2
3
4
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See available times  →
This opens the real booking widget. Rename it and recolour it above, then book a table.
Why Regulars

Regulars vs the incumbent.

Regulars
The incumbent
Model
Flat monthly fee, no per-cover charge
Marketplace, charges per booking
Guest relationship
Stays with you and your data
Held in its diner app
Channel
WhatsApp-native AI host
SMS and email reminders
Guest data
Segments, spend, no-show cost, favourites, forecasting
Auto-populated contact list
Built
AI-native and POPIA-aware from day one
Predates both
Pricing

Simple, flat pricing.

One fee, every feature. No per-cover charges and no commission, ever.

LAUNCH OFFER
R10/ month
for your first 6 months
Then R2,000 a month, flat, after that.
✓Every feature included
✓Unlimited bookings & covers
✓No per-cover fees
✓No marketplace commission
✓No setup fee
✓No lock-in, cancel anytime
Start for R10 a month
Prices in ZAR · live in a day

Questions, answered.

Start turning diners into regulars.

R10 a month for your first six months. No per-cover fees, no lock-in, and every guest stays yours.

Start for R10 a month