The floor designer

The floor designer is where you recreate your dining room as an editable plan. This article goes a little deeper than Build your floor into how it works and why the plan behaves the way it does.

Your room is stored as real geometry

Every table on a floor is stored as a set of real measurements — its position on the canvas, its rotation, its width and height, and its shape. It is not a picture or a frozen snapshot.

That matters for two reasons. First, the plan on screen is a faithful map of your room, so a host reading the floor during service sees tables where they actually are. Second, because capacity and shape are real, structured values, the system can answer questions like "which tables on the patio seat six or more" cheaply and exactly — which is what powers availability and seating suggestions.

The preset palette

Rather than draw each table, you stamp one from a palette. Each preset carries a starting capacity, shape and size:

• Deuce and Rect Deuce — two-tops (round and rectangular).
• Four Top, Diamond Four and Booth — parties of four.
• Six Top, Round Six and Banquette — parties of six.
• Eight Top and Round Eight — parties of eight.
• Communal — a large shared table (twelve).
• Bar Seat — a single stool at the bar.

The preset is only a starting point. Once placed, every table can be moved, resized, rotated to any angle (or flipped 90° with one tap), and have its capacity nudged up or down. The shapes available are round, square and rectangle, plus the booth, banquette and bar-seat styles that render as softer forms.

Combinable tables

Real dining rooms flex — two adjacent tables become one big top on a busy Saturday. Mark those tables as combinable in the designer, and the system treats them as a group that can host a larger party together. Availability will then offer the combined tables for a big booking, and the floor shows them working as one seating.

Everything stays editable

There is no "locked" state to a finished floor. You can redesign at any time — add a patio for summer, pull tables for a private event, redraw after a renovation. Changes you make in the designer flow straight through to what hosts see and what the booking page can offer.

What this affects

• Seating a party — parties are seated at the tables you design here.
• Availability — capacities and combinable groups shape what the engine offers diners.
• Table and party statuses — every designed table carries a live status during service.

What affects this

• Your role — floor design is permission-gated.
• Your plan — AI floor-plan import is a Pro feature.