Blog
Thoughts, updates, and stories from the NomNom team.
The booking button the chains have had for years
Search for a large chain and you get a Reserve a table button. Search for the independent down the street and you get a phone number. We are building the thing that closes that gap, and it will be there for every restaurant on NomNom, with no commission on a single cover.
Your booking diary now has an API
Today we are opening up NomNom to the other systems in your restaurant. If your till, your EPOS or your in-house software needs to know who is booked in tonight, it can now simply ask. Here is what we have built, what it is for, and the promise we are making to anyone who builds on it.
The review nobody meant to leave
A restaurant owner asked why guests were leaving low ratings they didn't remember giving. The answer was our own design: a single stray tap in an email was being recorded as a verdict.
You turned them away at seven. At eight, a table came free.
NomNom now keeps the day's waitlist for you — who you couldn't seat, what they'd have taken, and how to reach them. When a table comes free you choose who gets it, and they confirm it themselves from a link that only works once.
NomNom now speaks five languages
NomNom Web is now available in English, Espanol, Francais, Deutsch and Cymraeg - chosen per person, switched in two clicks. Here is what we translated, what we deliberately left alone, and what is still to come.
The last step is where you lose bookings. Now it's one tap.
Apple Pay and Google Pay have arrived on your NomNom booking page, right where diners so often drift away — the card step. One tap and a glance instead of sixteen digits, whether you take a deposit or simply hold a card. Nothing to switch on.
Two guests, one table, the same split second
One of our restaurants spotted two bookings on the same table at the same time. The cause turned out to be astonishingly rare — two guests confirming online in the very same split second — and here is how we found it, fixed it within the hour, and made sure it can never happen again.
A smarter way to seat your service
Meet the NomNom table optimiser: it quietly rearranges a day’s bookings to seat more guests, keep your big-table joins free, and trim the dead time between covers — suggesting every move so you stay in control. It never touches a table a guest asked for, a party that’s already seated, or an online booking in flight — and it’s safe to run in the middle of service.
NomNom, now in your browser — a first look at NomNom Web
NomNom is coming to the browser. NomNom Web brings your whole reservations diary to any computer — Windows PC, Mac or Chromebook — with nothing to install. Built on the trusted e-Res layout, reimagined for the modern web, with a beta landing next week.
Restaurant Booking System Pricing Compared: NomNom, OpenTable, ResDiary, SevenRooms, TheFork, Sugarvine & resOS (2026)
A side-by-side pricing comparison of seven UK restaurant booking systems — what each really costs, who hides their price, and who charges per cover.
Turn great visits into great reviews — automatic follow-up emails
NomNom can now email your guests after their visit to ask how it went, sending happy diners to Google or Tripadvisor and quietly routing anything less than perfect straight to you.
Commission-Free Restaurant Booking System UK (2026 Guide)
A fair, no-spin guide to the best commission-free restaurant booking system UK options in 2026 — honest pricing, who each suits, and the catches.
Switching Restaurant Booking System Without the Stress
Switching restaurant booking system? A calm, step-by-step UK guide: export your data, run in parallel, time the cutover, check deposits and SMS, repoint links.
How Much Does OpenTable Cost UK Restaurants?
How much does OpenTable cost UK restaurants? A fair look at its subscription-plus-commission model, what it means as you grow, and a flat-fee alternative.
10,000 Tests: The Work You'll Never See
We're about to cross 10,000 automated tests on the NomNom server. Here's what that invisible work means for the restaurants who trust us with their bookings — and for the developers who appreciate the craft behind it.
Bring the dog — dog-friendly bookings in NomNom
NomNom now lets you take dog-friendly bookings end to end — switch it on, mark which tables welcome dogs, set your own ground rules, and let guests tell you they're bringing a four-legged friend right from your online booking page.
Deposits or card holds? How to stop no-shows without scaring off guests
Reminders stop most no-shows. For the bookings that can really hurt — the six-tops, the event nights — you need a little skin in the game. Here's how to choose between a deposit and a card hold, and when to use neither.
The devices NomNom runs on — and why we're mobile-first
NomNom runs on iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets, Chromebooks, and Apple Silicon Macs. Here's the full list of supported devices — and the thinking behind our mobile-first approach, including where Windows fits in.
Why SMS reminders pay for themselves
A pack of 100 text reminders costs £6. If just one of them turns a no-show into a guest who walks in — or a phone call that frees the table in time to re-sell it — it has already paid for itself several times over. Here's the maths.
What's coming in v1.0.3
v1.0.3 has been months in the making, and it's landing in the next few days — a new floor plan designer, voucher sales, one-tap card authorisation, popup notes for the team, and a long list of smaller improvements. Here's a sneak peek.
New feature: gift vouchers
Sell branded gift vouchers from your booking page, redeem them at the table with a QR scan, and keep more of what they pay — no setup fee, no monthly cost, no fee on unsold vouchers.
Quick table actions: move, unallocate, and swap in a tap
Reshuffling reservations no longer means digging into the details screen. Tap or swipe a booking to move, unallocate, or swap tables right from the list.