Cozy Restaurant Reservation for Workgroup

Cozy Restaurant Reservation has all the features of managing reservations in restaurant-like establishments and with the ability to share data in real time over a network.

Pros: This application manages customers and their reservations for a restaurant and restaurant like place such as bar, pizza parlor, cafeteria, conference hall, party hall or nightclub. The features available in the publisher’s standard version of the program are available in this package besides the network based operation. The reservation and customer management is based on paper, pen and a diary metaphor yet it is suitable for not only small cozy bar or a chain of establishments. The application allows changing time intervals and allows creating numerous profiles and lets you view multiple schedules providing fair amount of flexibility. One of the major value add one provide if the establishment can remember customer preferences and special issues like allergy triggers and important dates like birthdays/anniversaries etc. This application helps you do that with comprehensive data navigation and set of reminders. Making notes about personal likings such as food choices or even things like table location could make customers feel that special touch and convert them to repeat customers quite easily.

The server module helps set up back up and restore schedules, it’s the client modules through which reservations are made and client data entries made. These client stations can be distributed over the organization within a single building or even dispersed over many. The auto back up ensures no data loss. Overall access protection is through passwords. Schedule data can be exported to other applications in MS Outlook, XML, HTML, XLS and TXT. For printed schedules the print manager ensures the details are printed out in a format you like. There are ready-made templates to choose from.

Cons: No obvious problems with this one.

Overall flexibility features and ease of use earns this application a 4 star rating.

This is a more powerful version of Cozy Restaurant Reservation, with all of the features of the standard version, but with the additional capability to share data in real time over the network. Cozy Restaurant Reservation helps you to take and then manage reservations and customers for your restaurant, bar, pizza parlour, cafeteria, conference hall, party hall or nightclub. Cozy Restaurant Reservation is a system designed to replace the pen & paper diary while still maintaining a diary look and feel for ease-of-use. Whether you are a small cafe, or a large restaurant chain, we are certain that after using Cozy Restaurant Reservation, you'll wonder how you ever managed without it! It's highly flexible, allows changing time intervals, creating numerous profiles and viewing multiple schedules at a time. Managing repeat customers and recording customer preferences helps you to retain your customers. Make food allergy notes, record special events and birth dates. Make your customers feel unique and special by recording personal notes. The program gives you a customizable Date Navigator and comprehensive reminder. All information stored in Cozy Restaurant Reservation can be secured with a password preventing from unauthorized access. To safeguard your data, you can also take advantage of the adjustable Auto Backup feature and save the data to the secured archive. Additionally, the schedule can be exported to a variety of formats, including MS Outlook, PDF, XML, HTML, XLS and TXT. Thus you can use your schedule in different applications. When you need a printout of your schedule, you'll certainly appreciate the powerful Print Designer. It'll help you to print your schedule in the most convenient form, choosing from a number of templates. You pay for the program only the first time and get all new versions of this program for FREE and for a lifetime!