A bar’s booking problem is not a restaurant’s. The room fills at ten, not seven. Half the night never booked at all, the other half wants a booth for twelve and somewhere to put a birthday cake, and the table you promised at the door has to be found again mid-service. Most booking pages were built around a dinner sitting and treat everything else as an exception.
Gaplessly starts from the floor plan instead: booths, high tables, bar seats and areas laid out like the real room, with availability drawn from the floor rather than from a slot list somebody keeps in sync. A group that needs two tables books them online. A group too big to book online lands as an enquiry in the same inbox as tonight’s reservations. Walk-ins go on a door waitlist with a table-ready text, and a table worth protecting can take a deposit or a saved card.