For restaurants and cafés

Ten spots a day. The form knows what day it is.

Set a daily capacity, a reset time, and opening hours in your time zone. Guests join from a QR code or your site, see "You're #4 today", and the list fills and reopens on its own.

Use this templateWhat you get

Free to start. You can modify all of this in the editor.

unwaited.com/casa-omakase/waitlist

Casa Omakase

Ten seats at the counter tonight. Add your name and we'll call you.

7 of 10 spots taken

Casa Omakase · 48 Pearl St · Tue to Sat from 6 PM

Sound familiar?

Your host stand runs on a notebook and a phone that keeps ringing

The ten omakase seats you do each night sell out by lunch, and everyone who calls after that gets the same apology. A Google Form never fills, so it takes 40 names for 10 seats. Instagram DMs pile up from people asking if tonight is open. Someone has to answer all of it while prepping service.

What you get

The limits, hours, and questions, already set

This is exactly what the button creates. It is a starting point, not a cage: change any of it in the editor after.

Template

Tonight's counter

  • 10 seats per day. The count resets at 5:00 AM in your time zone.
  • The list opens at 6:00 AM and closes at noon, Tuesday through Saturday.
  • Outside those hours guests see the next opening time instead of a form.
  • Asks for name, phone, and party size (1 to 4).
  • Guests see their number for today on the success screen.
Capacity
10 per day
Resets
daily at 5:00 AM
Signups open
Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, 6:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Form asks for
Email, Name, Phone, Party size
Counter on the form
Shown
Use this templateFree. Change anything after.

Or by hand

Set it up yourself, step by step

The same values, typed in. About five minutes.

  1. Create the waitlist

    Open the "Tonight's counter" template, change what you like, and press Publish. An emailed code makes it yours and puts it live; nothing is public before that.

  2. Set capacity to 10 per day

    In Settings, set the capacity to 10 per day and the reset to daily at 5:00 AM. The count starts over at every reset; nothing is deleted.

  3. Set the opening hours

    Under Hours, set signups to open Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, 6:00 AM to 12:00 PM. Outside those hours the form shows a closed screen with the next opening time, in the joiner's time zone.

  4. Add the form fields

    Email is built in. On the Form tab, add Name (required), Phone (required), Party size (required). Labels and help text render as plain text.

  5. Show the counter

    In Settings, turn on the counter so the form shows how many spots are left. People join faster when they can see the number.

  6. Publish and share

    Click Publish. The Share tab has the hosted link, a QR code, and the script tag or iframe for your site. The submit button reads "Join tonight's list".

FAQ

Questions people here ask

Does it text guests when their table is ready?

No. Unwaited takes names and enforces capacity. It does not run a live host stand with SMS callbacks. Call guests from the phone number they gave you.

What if we close on Mondays?

Leave Monday out of the opening hours. Monday visitors see the closed message and the next opening time.

Can I change today's capacity on the fly?

Yes. Raise it and the list reopens immediately. Lower it and it closes once the count is reached.

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