Mesa is a flat-rate reservation system for independent restaurants. $99 a month. Zero per-cover fees. A built-in SMS flow that cuts no-shows by up to 30%. And a guest list you can walk out the door with.
Join the waitlistFirst when you serve them. Then when the platform takes $0.25 to $1.00 for letting them book. A busy Saturday becomes a larger invoice.
Years of regulars, dietary notes, anniversaries — locked inside a platform that won't let you export it cleanly. The list you built is hostage.
The platform sells your bookings to the restaurant next door. You're paying the company that's marketing against you.
Three numbers. The math is the pitch. Most restaurants in our target range save $200 to $800 a month switching from per-cover platforms — plus what they recover from fewer no-shows.
Per-cover platform fee modeled at $0.50/cover. No-show reduction modeled at 25% — conservative estimate based on multi-touch SMS confirmation industry data.
Every booking — whether from your website, your Instagram bio, or a phone call your host takes — gets the same automated sequence. The math: confirmed bookings show up. Unconfirmed ones don't.
Fires the moment the booking is made (or 48h before). Filters out guests who already know they can't come. You don't hold a table for someone who isn't sure.
Only sent to bookings that haven't replied yet. A cancellation now still gives you time to fill the table from the waitlist. No silent ghosts.
Goes to every confirmed booking. Eliminates day-of ghosting and opens a direct line to the host for guests running late.
Mesa is opening with a small group of independent restaurants who shaped it. Here's what it's designed to change from day one — and what founding members get first.
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Pick a plan. Use Mesa free for 14 days. Add a card when you're ready. Cancel any time — and take every byte of your data with you.
Single location. Everything you need to run service.
Up to 3 locations. Priority support. More SMS.
No annual contract. No cancellation maze. No export "request" that takes three weeks. If Mesa isn't earning its $99, you cancel in two clicks, download every guest record and note, and walk. We hard-delete your data within 30 days — for good.
You leave with everything you arrived with — plus everything you built while you were here.
Most of our founding restaurants are switching from one of those. We import your existing guest list from a CSV in under 10 minutes. You keep your history. You stop paying per cover from day one. Switch when your billing cycle ends to avoid double payment.
Yes. One click in the dashboard. CSV or JSON. Every guest, every reservation, every note, every visit. No throttling, no approval queue, no "export request" ticket. The data belongs to you. The architecture enforces this — it's not just a policy promise.
By filtering uncertainty early. Touch 1 catches guests who already know they can't make it — before you've held the table. Touch 2 re-confirms anyone who didn't respond. Touch 3 eliminates day-of ghosting. Conservative industry data suggests a 25–40% reduction in no-show rate from multi-touch SMS confirmation.
If they need a manual, we've built it wrong. Our test: a host who has never seen the tablet should be able to seat a guest, mark a no-show, and add a walk-in within five minutes of opening it. We rebuild the UI until that's true.
Phone bookings are the primary use case, not an afterthought. Host taps "+ Phone Booking" on the tablet, enters three fields (phone, name, party size), and saves. The guest gets the same automated 3-touch SMS sequence. Total time from picking up the call: under 20 seconds.
You export your data during the cancellation flow. We hard-delete everything within 30 days. No exceptions, no recovery, no aggregated retention. You leave with what you arrived with — plus everything you built while you were here.
Never. No per-cover fees. No commission. No booking fee. No "discovery network" charge. Whatever a guest spends at your restaurant stays at your restaurant. The flat monthly subscription is the entire commercial relationship.
Not the platform charging you per guest. Mesa is launching soon — join the waitlist for early access, founding pricing, and a 14-day free trial when we open. No card today; just be first in line.
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