Private dining & buyouts

The buyout upstairs shouldn't live in a different login from the floor.

BEOs, a client portal, deposits and invoices — in the same system as tonight's reservations, the host stand, the floor and checkout, and the kitchen. One record. What the house knows stays with the house.

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No demo call. Pricing is on this page.

Word docs. Email threads. Somebody's head.

When the events manager leaves, the book leaves with them — the allergies, the preferred setups, the wine that family always upgrades to, the promise somebody made last spring.

Private dining is the highest-margin thing most rooms do, and it's usually run on the loosest system in the building. It deserves the same seriousness as Saturday night — not a shared drive, and not a second stack that has never once spoken to the kitchen.

How it works

One BEO. Same pass as dinner.

BEOs that aren't trapped in Word

One record per event, with the setup, the timeline, the counts and the allergies where the whole house can see them.

A client portal

The planner, the couple or the company picks their packages and sees what they owe, without a chain of attachments.

Deposits and invoices

Tied to the event, paid through your own Stripe account. We take no cut of it.

Event courses on the same rail as dinner

A 120-cover buyout and a two-top's pasta ride the same pass, told apart at a glance.

The floor and checkout already know the room

Same tables, same host stand, same split checks. Nothing gets retyped from the event side to the service side.

Kitchen pacing that learns

Each station's real speed, measured from your own tickets, not a number somebody typed into a setup screen.

QuickBooks sync

Invoices and payments land in your books. No midnight CSV.

What most rooms do, and what this does

Most rooms
DocketBEO
Separate events software — or a folder of Word docs
BEOs in the same system as the floor
Retype the event into the POS by hand
One record, no re-key
Kitchen guessing at ticket times
Station pacing measured from your own service
The book walks out with the events lead
The details stay with the house

Built after watching the book walk out.

Nineteen years in kitchens, the last decade as an executive chef and GM. I helped turn a struggling room into a busy regional event space. Then I left, the events manager left, and the client history left with us.

DocketBEO exists so the house keeps what the house knows.

David Armone · Founder · Naples, NY

Pricing

Every feature, every plan.

Private events and BEOs are in every plan, alongside reservations, the floor, checkout and the kitchen — with unlimited team members. What changes is how many locations you run.

Founding pricing — 35 founding spots left · ends October 31. Sign up at these rates and you keep them for as long as you stay subscribed, even after they go up.

Most popular
House
$39/mo
Founding rate — yours for as long as you stay subscribed, even after it rises to $129/mo
One restaurant
Small Group
$89/mo
Founding rate — yours for as long as you stay subscribed, even after it rises to $297/mo
A small group, up to three
Multi-Unit
$189/mo
Founding rate — yours for as long as you stay subscribed, even after it rises to $790/mo
Up to ten locations

No per-cover reservation fees, no setup fees, and we take no cut of what your clients pay you. Stripe's normal processing fees still apply. Running more than ten locations? .

Straight answers

Do I need separate events software on top of this?

No. Private events and dinner service are the same account. That's the whole point of the page you're reading.

Can clients sign the contract in the portal?

Not yet — contract e-signature isn't built. Clients review and approve the BEO and pay their deposit in the portal; the contract itself still goes through whatever you use today. It's on the list, and we'd rather tell you than let you find out in month two.

What about OpenTable or Resy for bookings?

Reservations run on your own website with no per-cover fee. Private dining runs in the same place, so a buyout and a Tuesday two-top don't live in different systems.

We already run a POS. Does this replace it?

It doesn't try to be your cash drawer, your inventory or your labor reporting. It runs the reservations, the floor, the kitchen, checkout and the event book. If private dining still lives in Word and five other logins, that's the gap this is for.

More in the Help Center.

Buyouts and Saturday night. One system.

Fourteen days free, and you can be taking a reservation the same day you sign up.

No demo call.