DocketBEO was built by a cook. David Armone spent 19 years in restaurant kitchens, the last ten as executive chef and general manager, and kept watching the same thing happen: the website said one thing, the reservation book said another, the BEO for Saturday's party was a PDF nobody on the line had read, and the owner paid five companies every month to keep it that way. DocketBEO is one system for all of it, priced so a single 60-seat restaurant can afford it.
The website. Your site, on your own domain, built from your current site or menu in minutes and edited by you. The menu is one record shared by the kitchen, the floor and the site, so when a dish is 86'd on the kitchen screen the website shows it sold out tonight and brings it back when it's back. Pickup ordering is commission-free, with no fee charged to the guest.
Reservations. Guests book from your site or your Google listing with a name, phone and email; no membership. Bookings are checked against real table capacity. Confirmations and reminders go out by email, guests change or cancel from the link, and card-on-file no-show protection is optional. There is no per-cover fee and DocketBEO takes no cut of deposits or no-show charges.
The floor and the kitchen. Host stand with a texting waitlist, a floor plan, table orders and course firing. Every order reaches station screens and Star or Epson printers. Checkout splits checks and takes cards on a reader through your own Stripe account. Staff screens come in nine languages, and item names, notes and BEOs are translated automatically.
Private events. An inquiry from your website becomes the event; the BEO drafts itself the moment the event is created. The client reviews it in a portal, signs by typing their name and pays the deposit into your Stripe account. A private event blocks the room on the same book your reservations use. On the day, the line sees the whole BEO on its screen: courses, headcount, allergies, timeline, setup notes.
Pricing. Website $49, Counter $79, House $129 a month per location. Small Group $297 for up to three locations, Multi-Unit $790 for up to ten. Unlimited team members on every plan. Fourteen-day free trial, no card to start, month to month, cancel any time. No setup fee, no commission, no guest fee.
Where it fits. DocketBEO is for an independent restaurant or a small group that does dinner service and private dining and wants them on one system. It does not run a diner marketplace: OpenTable and Resy find first-time guests, and many of our restaurants keep one of them for that while moving everything else to DocketBEO.
Try it at docketbeo.app/try. No login, no sales call. Tell us what's wrong with it; that's how it gets better.
