Carbonara
A busy seaside restaurant at golden hour: full tables, an open kitchen and a wood-fired oven

Fully loaded.No strings attached.

  • Walk-in waitlist and reservations
  • Ready in minutes
  • Affordable
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No contract required

Trusted by restaurants, bars and cafés in 30 countries

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How do your guests arrive?

Guests queueing at a restaurant door

They wait

A waitlist for walk-ins: guests leave their name and number and get a message when the table's ready.

Waitlist
A dining room with tables set for booked guests

They book ahead

Online bookings, Reserve with Google, deposits and reminders.

Reservations
A busy beach terrace with guests at their tables

Both, depending on the day

A queue on Saturday, bookings midweek. One list for both.

Fully featured

Everything you'll actually use.

A walk-in waitlist, reservations and guest messaging, all in one app. Use one, or all three.

  • Online reservations, including Reserve with Google
  • Live floor plan on phone, tablet or computer
  • Deposits and prepaid tickets
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The Carbonara waitlist on a tablet during a busy shift

Easy

Up and running before your coffee gets cold.

Ready in less than five minutes, and simple enough for anyone on the door. If you can send a text, you can run Carbonara.

Under 5:00from sign-up to open doors

  1. 1Create your account
  2. 2Your hours come from Google
  3. 3Snap a photo, get your floor plan
  4. 4Open the doors

Affordable

Affordable. Really.

Plans from $9.99 a month, free up to 50 bookings in any 30 days, and no contract required.

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From$9.99a month

Free up to 50 bookings

  • No booking fees
  • 10% off when you pay yearly

Messaging

Your table's ready. They'll know.

Carbonara texts every guest, waiting or booked, and they can text back.

The join-the-waitlist form on a phone
1. A guest joins the waitlist at the door, from your website or on Google
A guest's waiting screen on a phone

TEXT MESSAGE · NOW

Hi Zoe, your table at Trattoria da Luca is ready! Please come to the host stand.

2. "Your table's ready" arrives by text
The table-ready screen on a guest's phone

Host screen: Zoe · On my way

On my way, 2 minutes!

3. The guest replies "On my way"; the host sees it live

  • Booking confirmations and reminders go by email too.

  • Too loud for a text alert? Carbonara can call guests instead.

  • Lots of guests from abroad? We have other ways to reach them, including WhatsApp. Talk to us.

How messaging worksMessage costs are listed on Pricing.

No contract required.

Pay monthly and cancel any time. No notice period, no lock-in. We'd rather you stay because it works.

Why we don't do contracts

Customer stories

Busy doors, calm rooms.

Read their stories
The Maggie Fu restaurant front on Smithdown Road, Liverpool“Works perfectly in any busy restaurant.”Maggie FuLiverpool, UK · WaitlistInside Cafe Strange Brew in Glasgow“With the Carbonara App, everything is a lot quicker.”Cafe Strange BrewGlasgow, UK · Waitlist

Made for busy places.

A restaurant terrace full of guests at nightRestaurantsA pizza on a pizzeria tablePizzeriasA bartender making a cocktailCocktail barsBrunch plates on a café tableCafés and brunchA busy dining room under woven lampsRestaurant groups(2 to 8 venues)

Bring on the rush.

Get started in less than five minutes, or talk to us about your busiest shift.

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