TablesReady and Tock are great solutions to manage waitlists and reservations. The biggest feature difference is that Tock is an eCommerce platform for the hospitality industry, while TablesReady has a highly streamlined waitlist and reservations feature built for any industry.

Floormaps and server management can be great for highly trained staff and for analyzing minute details of your operation. But they also mean hours spent training your people, some of whom turn over frequently, and more mistakes with the system — errors that can cost you the small efficiency boost you were hoping for.

With TablesReady, when you see a table is about to free up, simply page the next right-sized party to let them know to come back. When they're seated, mark them as "served." It couldn't get any simpler. Why overcomplicate things?