TablePlay

Floor staff

On a busy night, "how much longer?" is the most expensive question in the room.

Not because the answer is hard, but because somebody has to stop what they were doing to give it. A table with something in front of it asks far less often.

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What the table sees

It asks who is playing first, child or adult, and that decides the list. Nobody on your floor has to explain a thing.

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What the floor notices

Waiting guests sit differently, and that cuts the interruptions at the worst possible moment.
Nothing for your team to explain. Guests start it themselves from the code on the table.
When the kitchen runs behind, the table has something to get through the delay with.

What the research shows

1stof eight queueing principles

Occupied waiting time is judged shorter than unoccupied waiting time, the first of eight queueing principles.

Restaurants already act on it: the menu handed out in the queue is there to fill the time, not to be read. A table with something to do asks the floor for less, because the wait was what it kept asking about.

Maister (1985), The Psychology of Waiting Lines

3settings, one pattern

Meal duration rose with the number of people at the table, in all three settings observed.

Nothing was manipulated here; tables were counted and timed. The useful part is that time at a table is not a fixed quantity. It moves with what is happening there. A table with something to do puts its hand up less often.

Bell and Pliner (2003), Appetite 41

What you get

Every game, including the ones added later
A QR table card per table, from hundreds of designs
Games for children and for adults
On your own, together at the table, or a tournament across the room
No advertising, in the language of the guest
Your own logo on the table card

What the table can pick from

Nobody at the pass has to set this up. What a table scores ends up on one screen behind the bar.

65games ready at the table

Nobody behind the pass has to announce it. The screen does that, and a table that sees its own number stays for one more round.

This is the real screen of the demo venue, with the rounds that were actually played there.

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First year free100 of 100 free places left in Ireland

The first year costs you nothing

Free places are limited per country. Twelve months at no charge, no joining fee, and no bank details asked for up front.

30days free, games included

There is no obligation to buy and no card details are needed to start.

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What it costs

€ 29a monthup to 10 tables
Our recommendation€ 49a monthup to 25 tables
€ 79a monthunlimited

What changes on your round

The codes go on the tables once, and they stay there.
Guests start on their own; your team comes by for food and drink, not for instructions.
The admin screen shows which tables are playing, useful for knowing where you are not needed.

What managers ask us

Does my team have to explain this?

No. The code on the table is the whole instruction. There is no device to hand out and nothing to collect afterwards.

Will it create more questions than it saves?

In practice the questions are about the game itself and they are rare. What disappears is the walk over to answer how much longer the food will be.

Does it work outside on the terrace?

Yes, as long as there is signal. The games are light and use very little data.