Adding an area for Valentines Day
We’ve only just had Christmas but with Valentines Day looming we wanted to point you in the direction of a neat little ‘hack’. This might make your planning for special occasions or one off events in your restaurant run a little more smoothly.
Last year, one of our users, Allium by Mark Ellis, came to us looking to set up their restaurant differently for a few days in February around Valentines Day. Rather than have their regular setup, they wanted a predominantly two cover per table setup just for one or two nights.
how to add an extra area
What they did was add a new area called ‘Restaurant Valentines’ with the layout they required. Then in advanced settings they used the closed area function to close out their usual restaurant area for these dates. In addition to that, they made sure that the Valentines area was closed from now until the date they required it in February and then again after these dates until a date much further in the future.
use it again
You could keep this area in your layouts to be used again or diarise a reminder to delete the area once the event has passed. It’s up to you.
The restaurant are now able to take bookings without having to worry about rearranging tables once bookings have been made.
As always, drop us an email on help@simpleerb.com if you require any further information or a nudge in the right direction!
