Reservations without the toll booth.

Our own reservations platform for independent restaurants. Flat pricing, full data ownership, in private pre-launch.

ReMesa is a reservation platform Vonzie Studio designed and built from the ground up for independent restaurants, the same craft we bring to client work, with the freedom to make every decision ourselves.

Most reservation platforms either tax success with per-cover fees, lock restaurants into opaque contracts, or funnel guest data into ecosystems owned by someone else. ReMesa was built to fill the gap: flat monthly pricing with no per-cover fee, full data ownership for the restaurant, and a booking widget that drops onto any site. It is our own product, in private pre-launch, opening to restaurants in stages.

Specs

Disciplines

Product design, Full-stack build, Brand, Systems

Focus

Real-time availability, guest CRM

Status

Invite-only, pre-launch

Made by

Vonzie Studio, in-house

Context

The Problem

Restaurant technology had become a toll booth. We built the opposite.

Success gets taxed.

The dominant platforms charge a fee per seated guest, so a busy dining room pays more the better it does. Growth should never cost more.

Someone else owns the guest.

On most platforms, the restaurant's most valuable asset, its guest relationships, feeds a larger ecosystem owned by a corporation with interests beyond the restaurant.

Pricing you have to phone for.

One platform quotes per cover, another bundles notifications as an add-on, a third makes you call to learn the price. Transparent pricing is the exception, not the rule.

Execution

What we built

ReMesa is designed around three non-negotiables: flat pricing with no per-cover fee, full data ownership, and a setup a restaurant can finish in minutes.

A real-time availability engine

Every time slot a guest sees is accurate, checked live against tables, sections, and service periods, with no stale availability and server-side re-verification so double-bookings simply cannot happen.

A booking widget that drops in

An accordion booking flow that embeds on any restaurant site with a single snippet. Lightweight, multi-language with automatic detection, spam-protected, with a waitlist fallback when a service is full.

A canvas floor-plan editor

Place tables and draw walls on a live canvas, run a real-time seating view during service, and assign tables from inside the reservation panel.

An automated guest CRM

Every booking builds a guest profile with visit counts, preferences, allergies, and VIP status, and frequent guests are promoted automatically, with no manual data entry.

No-show prevention

Automated reminders before service, optional smart deposits, and a waitlist that fills cancellations, so empty tables and no-shows both get smaller.

An intelligence layer

A written daily briefing reads the day's reservations for the manager each morning, at-risk guests are flagged by a deterministic score, and signed events can push to the tools a restaurant already runs.

Roadmap

Where it stands

A full product with accounts, billing, real-time data, and an intelligence layer, in private pre-launch.

Currently Optimizing

A complete platform, built in-house

Accounts, subscription billing, real-time availability, floor plans, and a guest CRM in one product, built to serve many restaurants at once with the same care we give client work.

Flow, not fees

Flat monthly pricing that scales by features, not by how busy a restaurant gets, with the guest relationships staying with the restaurant.

The Backlog

Opening in stages

ReMesa is invite-only while we onboard the first restaurants and refine the product with them, ahead of a wider opening.

"We built ReMesa around one principle: restaurant technology should be infrastructure, not a toll booth. Your growth should never cost you more."

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