Hutch Picks SeatMe for Online Reservations and Table Management, Joining Other Popular Uptown Oakland Restaurants
Oakland, CA (PRWEB) July 31, 2013 -- SeatMe, a leading provider of online restaurant reservation software and front of house management tools that help restaurants fill more tables, announced today that Hutch Bar and Kitchen has selected SeatMe for its complete restaurant management and online reservations solution. Hutch Bar and Kitchen is a brand-new restaurant in Oakland’s burgeoning Uptown district, specializing in Southern cuisine using seasonal Californian ingredients. Hutch, which just opened earlier in July, will use SeatMe to manage its tables, take online reservations, and text diners on its wait-list.
Hutch joins several other restaurants in the East Bay of San Francisco that also use SeatMe. Hopscotch and Duende are just a few blocks away, and Comal is nearby in Berkeley. Despite variations in size and use, they’ve all found SeatMe to be their ideal front of house management solution. For example, Comal is quite large and doesn’t take online reservations, while Hopscotch seats only a few dozen people at a time and relies on reservations to fit in as many guests as possible.
SeatMe offers restaurants like Hutch a variety of services as part of a complete front of house management solution. In addition to accepting online reservations, SeatMe restaurants can confirm those reservations via text message, freeing up time for restaurant hosts. What’s more, those guests are instantly added to the restaurant guest book where they can track dining history, preferences, allergies, special occasions, and more. For walk-in guests, SeatMe allows hosts to text those diners when their tables are ready, providing a low-cost alternative to restaurant pagers and buzzers, which can get costly. Furthermore, smaller restaurants that don’t have the resources to build their own mobile websites can use SeatMe’s free mobile website service as well, which allows diners to book reservations easily from their phones.
Part of the reason the setup process was so seamless for Hutch was that, with SeatMe, the restaurant only needed Internet access in order to start managing its floor from anywhere, and from as many places as they’d like, from virtually any device. There’s also an iPad application designed for seamless host stand usage. There are no additional fees for accessing the reservation books from multiple places. There’s also a fourteen-day free trial period for restaurants to try the system, with no credit card required (though a credit card is required to begin accepting online reservations).
“Oakland’s been a particularly exciting area for us, and we’re thrilled to welcome Hutch to the SeatMe family,” said Alexander Kvamme, SeatMe’s Founder and CEO.
About SeatMe
SeatMe, headquartered in San Francisco, CA is a leading provider of online restaurant management tools, allowing restaurants everywhere to fill more tables and increase check sizes by accepting online reservations and managing walk-in diners via an intuitive iPad and Web interface. SeatMe offers a variety of advanced features to help restaurants of all sizes, regardless of whether or not they take reservations. SeatMe helps restaurants manage all of their guests and front of house services without charging any per-diner or equipment fees at a flat monthly rate.
About Hutch
Hutch Bar & Kitchen intends to contribute to the rich and vibrant Uptown district of Oakland with simply, carefully, and uniquely prepared food and libation whenever possible, prepared with an emphasis on local, organic and sustainable ingredients. In a space designed and built by some of the top restaurant and bar industry craftsmen in the Bay Area, Hutch will execute a menu with an emphasis on the cooking traditions of the American South featuring a Gulf Coast influenced raw bar stocked with fresh and sustainably fished California seafood, traditional house prepared grits, unique ethically farmed grilled local meats, as well as an eclectic array of Southern inspired bar snacks.
Ravi, Dehar, SeatMe, 4156926533 105, [email protected]
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