For restaurants, cafés & venues

Every table full. Every booking confirmed.

Friday service is when the phone rings most and the floor has the least time for it. Dayrun takes the bookings, runs the waitlist and fills the quiet nights, so your team stays with the guests.

A busy neighbourhood restaurant on a Friday night, every table full
Before and after

The same day, handled.

Without Dayrun

  • The phone rings out in the middle of service
  • No-shows leave tables empty on the busiest night
  • Walk-ins leave when there is no table
  • Tuesday nights stay quiet

With Dayrun

  • Every booking is taken in your venue's name
  • Bookings are confirmed on the day and gaps go to the waitlist
  • Guests wait on the list and hear when a table is ready
  • Regulars are invited back to fill the quiet nights
The day

A Friday with Dayrun

  1. The venue manager setting tables and checking his phone before lunch
    10:30 am

    Tonight's bookings need confirming

    Nina confirms every booking for tonight. A guest replies about a birthday and a high chair, and Nora passes the request to the floor.

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  2. A server carrying plates through a busy café while a phone lights up on the counter
    12:45 pm

    Lunch is flat out and the phone rings

    Nina takes the booking in your venue's name. Nobody leaves the pass to answer it.

  3. A couple outside the restaurant reading a text that their table is ready
    7:30 pm

    A table cancels and walk-ins are waiting

    Nina gives the table to the first guest on the waitlist and texts them that it is ready. The rest keep their place in line.

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  4. The manager stacking chairs in the empty restaurant after close
    11:05 pm

    The doors close, the work carries on

    Leo invites regulars back for next Tuesday and follows up tonight's guests. Nora has already picked up a complaint for the manager to see in the morning.

How Dayrun helps

Three jobs, done every time.

Takes every booking

On the phone, WhatsApp, the web and Google. Guests hear your venue, not a voicemail.

Runs the waitlist

Bookings confirmed on the day, cancellations filled and guests told when their table is ready.

Fills the quiet nights

Regulars are followed up and invited back when you have tables to fill.

The maths

What missed calls cost a restaurant.

A typical US full service restaurant, worked out in the open. Cited figures link to their source, and every assumption says so.

7,200Calls a year(assumption)
68%Calls during the lunch and dinner rush1
33%Rush calls that go unanswered1
30%Of those, trying to book(assumption)
69%Who give up on the restaurant if nobody answers2
3.2Guests per booking1
$42Average spend per guest1
Lost every year$44,900
Won back when Dayrun answers every call$22,400Assumes half of those bookings are won back once every call is answered (assumption)

An estimate, not a promise. Every cited figure here comes from companies that sell restaurant phone answering, and the 69% is what people said they would do. Only calls missed at peak are counted. Call volume, the booking share and the 50% are assumptions.

  1. 1. Maple (restaurant phone vendor), 1.2 million calls at 1,000+ US locations, 2025
  2. 2. The Harris Poll for Hostie (vendor commissioned), 2,065 US adults, 2025
Why Dayrun

Built to run inside your business.

Your systems stay put

Your booking system, POS and roster keep running. Dayrun works inside them.

Deposits hold the table

A deposit secures the booking, so an empty table on a Friday costs less.

A person gets the hard ones

Complaints and special requests go to the manager with the whole conversation attached.

Live in a week

Point your number at Dayrun, connect what you already run and meet the team.