Restaurant Pre-Order Software That Does the Chasing for You
Collect every guest’s food choices, allergies and drink pre-orders for group bookings automatically.
Your team stops chasing spreadsheets. Your kitchen gets accurate numbers. Your guests just see your brand.
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Group bookings shouldn’t mean group admin
Spreadsheets work, right up until they don’t. A 30-cover Christmas party means emailing the organiser, waiting for a half-completed PDF, chasing the missing choices, re-typing everything for the kitchen, and hoping the allergy column is accurate. One change from the organiser and every document is out of date. Your team triple-checks everything and mistakes still slip through during service.
“Logistically, pre-orders with dietaries and allergies became a bit of a nightmare. That has just literally resolved all of our issues around that.”The Wolseley
How restaurant pre-ordering works with Creventa
A group books
A large party books direct, by phone, or through SevenRooms. Bookings over your party-size threshold trigger pre-ordering automatically.
Guests order for themselves
Every guest gets a branded link or QR code to pick dishes, flag allergies and pre-order drinks. No app, no account, works for every age and ability.
Creventa chases the stragglers
Automated reminders go out before your ordering cut-off, so your team never sends another “just following up” email.
Reports print themselves
Chef’s report, food pass, place cards, table plans and drinks orders generate from live guest data. Zero typing, 100% accuracy.
Everything your team needs for group dining
Guest self-service pre-orders
Choice menus, set menus with allergy collection, or anything in between. Guests submit their own choices, so data is accurate the first time.
FSA-compliant allergen tracking
All 14 mandatory allergens plus custom allergies, separated from dietary preferences, visible to the kitchen on every report. More on allergens.
Drink pre-orders that lift wet spend
Party leads order bottles for the table before arrival. Venues see around a 251% uplift in wet spend.
Party lead and host access
The organiser invites their own guests via WhatsApp, Teams or QR code, and manages their own group. The work moves off your team.
Deposits and pre-payments
Take deposits and payments through Stripe, Adyen, Planet Pay or FreedomPay, with automatic VAT receipts and in-platform refunds.
One-click reports
Chef’s report, food pass, front of house report, place cards, table plans and drinks orders, generated with no manual entry. See all features.
SevenRooms and EPOS friendly
Our live SevenRooms integration triggers pre-orders from your reservation rules. Works alongside the systems you already run.
Your brand, not ours
Every email, page and place card carries your branding. If guests ever used Creventa, we’d hope they never knew we were there.
What restaurants get out of it
More wet spend when guests and party leads pre-order drinks
Less food waste from accurate numbers locked in by your cut-off
Back per booking that your team currently spends chasing and re-typing
Report accuracy with FSA-compliant allergen records on every event
Built for every kind of group booking
- Christmas party nights and joiners. Sell tickets on your own website and consolidate ticketed and direct bookings into one seating plan. Managing Christmas pre-orders.
- Private dining rooms. Choice menus, place cards and chef reports for PDRs, generated automatically. Restaurant private dining.
- Large-party reservations. SevenRooms bookings over your threshold trigger pre-orders without anyone lifting a finger.
- Multi-site restaurant groups. One consistent pre-order process across every venue. Restaurant groups and group dining pre-orders.
Restaurant groups run on Creventa
“I would 100% recommend it. It changed our lives. Fundamentally it’s changed my workload. I’ve got more time to spend with guests rather than admin.”
“Creventa has been a game changer for us. It saves us so much time, and we receive great feedback from our guests.”
Restaurant pre-order software FAQs
What is restaurant pre-order software?
Restaurant pre-order software collects food and drink orders from guests before they arrive. For group bookings, each guest receives a branded link to choose dishes, record allergies and pre-order drinks, and the restaurant receives kitchen-ready reports with no manual data entry.
How do guests submit their pre-orders?
Guests receive a personalised, venue-branded email, link or QR code. They pick their courses, flag allergies and dietary requirements, and can pre-order drinks. It works in any browser with no app or account needed.
Does it handle allergies and dietary requirements?
Yes. Creventa tracks all 14 FSA mandatory allergens plus custom allergies, keeps them separate from dietary preferences like vegan or halal, and flags them on every kitchen and front of house report.
Does it work with our reservation system?
Creventa integrates with SevenRooms, so reservations over your party-size threshold trigger pre-ordering automatically. It also works alongside any booking process via shareable links and QR codes.
Can we take deposits and pre-payments?
Yes. Deposits and payments run through Stripe, Adyen, Planet Pay or FreedomPay, with automatic VAT receipts.
What size bookings does it work for?
Everything from a table of 10 to ticketed party nights of 500 or more. The same platform handles private dining rooms and full-venue events.
See your next group booking run itself
Book a Demo and we’ll walk through a real booking like yours, from reservation to chef’s report. We wouldn’t expect you to change how you run things. Creventa flexes around how you want to run your bookings.
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