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.
Casa Omakase
Ten seats at the counter tonight. Add your name and we'll call you.
The problem
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.
The recipe
Exactly what the button sets up
Capacity, reset time, opening hours, and the form fields. It is a starting point, not a cage. Every value is editable in Settings and the builder.
Recipe
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
How it works here
How the list works
Capacity per day
Ten a day, twenty a week, or a monthly cap. Deleting a no-show frees the slot.
Resets at your time
5:00 AM in your time zone, not midnight UTC. Week windows start on the day you pick.
Opening hours
Only take names Tuesday to Saturday, 6:00 AM to noon. Outside that, the form says when it opens.
Numbered for today
"You're #4 today." The number restarts every window; the all-time count stays in your export.
QR and hosted page
No website needed. Print the QR code on the door and the menu.
Phone and party size
Add a phone field, a party-size choice, a note. Required or optional, your call.
Why it holds up
What matters most
It says "opens again tomorrow at 6:00 AM"
A full list is not a dead end. Guests see the next opening in their own time zone and come back.
No double booking under pressure
Two guests submitting the last seat at once: one gets it, one sees full. Enforced in the database.
Your staff sees today's list
The dashboard shows today's entries with their numbers and fields, and exports the day as CSV.
Works on a phone at the door
The hosted page is a plain, fast form. Nothing to install.
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.