Reservations without the per-cover bill
Take bookings straight from your page. They sit next to your menu, not behind a separate login, and you keep every dollar the table spends.
For small restaurants that want their floor back
A Resy alternative built for small restaurants
Resy is good at one thing: filling a room people are already trying to get into. Most small restaurants need something else. Scanqur puts your QR menu, table ordering and reservations in one place, with no fee on every cover that walks in.
Free to start No app for your guests Live in 5 minutes
Olive & Oak
Open · Dinner service
TonightWineDessert
$18
$24
$16
Order from table
Table for 2
Tonight · 8:00 PM
Confirmed
New order
Table 4 · 2 items
What you get instead
One tool that runs the room, not just the waitlist
Resy handles bookings and stops there. Scanqur covers the rest of the night: the menu guests read, the order they place, the table they booked.
A QR menu guests actually use
Scan, browse, done. No app, no PDF that pinches to zoom. Change a price and the next guest sees it.
Table ordering
Guests order from their seat and the kitchen gets it right away. Fewer trips across the floor on a full Friday.
AI menu scanning
Photograph your paper menu and Scanqur builds the digital version for you. It takes minutes, not an evening of typing.
Analytics that mean something
See what guests open, order and skip. That is the data that tells you which dish to cut.
Themes that match your room
A page that looks like your restaurant, whether that is a wine bar or a twelve-seat counter.
Head to head
Resy vs Scanqur, line by line
Same table, no spin. Resy is reservation software. Scanqur is the whole guest-facing layer.
Feature
Resy
Scanqur
Online reservations
Included
Included
Modern QR menu
Not available
Included
Table ordering
Not available
Included
No per-cover fees
Not available
Included
Menu analytics
Limited
Included
AI menu scanning
Not available
Included
Works with no guest app
Limited
Included
Multilingual menu
Not available
Included
Free to start
Limited
Included
Do the math
What a full house actually costs
Per-cover pricing has a quiet catch: the better your night, the bigger your bill. Drag the slider and watch it.
1,400
2004,000
Per-cover reservation software$700/mo
Scanqur$0
Same price on a dead Monday and a packed Saturday.
Over a year, that is about $8,400 you are handing back for guests who already found you.
A tool that costs more the night you finally fill the room is working against you. Scanqur costs the same either way: nothing.
Estimate based on a $0.50 per-cover rate. Real reservation-software pricing varies by plan and market; the point is the shape of the curve, not the exact figure.
The honest part
Why small restaurants look past Resy
Resy is a strong product. It was just built for a different kind of restaurant than most.
Built for rooms with a waitlist
Resy shines when demand already outstrips seats. A neighborhood spot with a few open tables on a Tuesday is paying for a problem it does not have.
The cost follows your covers
Per-cover pricing means a good month costs you more. For a small margin business, a tool that gets pricier as you get busier is a strange deal.
Reservations only
Resy books the table. It does not carry your menu, take the order or update a sold-out dish. That is two or three more tools, each with its own bill.
Another app between you and the guest
Resy works best when your guest already lives in the Resy app. Scanqur asks for nothing: scan the code, you are in.
A reservation tool should not get more expensive the night you finally fill the room.
The idea Scanqur is built on
Worth reading first
Choosing restaurant reservation software for a small room
Restaurant reservation software should not tax a full house
Per-cover pricing made sense for marketplaces that send you diners. If you are filling your own tables, you are paying a finder fee on guests who found you on their own. A flat, free booking tool keeps that money in the till.
A QR ordering system asks nothing of your guest
The point of a QR ordering system is that there is no step between scanning and ordering. No download, no account, no app to open. That frictionless path is the gap between Scanqur and a reservation-only platform.
Your digital menu and your bookings belong together
When the menu lives in one place and the reservation lives in another, your guest hops between two experiences and you manage two systems. A restaurant ordering platform that holds the menu, the order and the booking is simply less to run.
Pick a restaurant booking system you will not outgrow or overpay
A small restaurant booking system should be cheap when you are quiet and still cheap when you are slammed. If the price moves with your covers, you are renting your own success back. Free to start, free as you grow, is the safer footing.
Common questions
What people ask us most
For most small restaurants, Scanqur is the most complete one, because it covers reservations, a QR menu and table ordering in a single free tool. Resy is still the right call if you run a high-demand room that needs a diner network and a managed waitlist.
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Your tables should not cost extra when they fill up
Move off a reservation-only tool and onto a QR menu, table ordering and bookings in one place. Build yours now and it will be live before service.
Hundreds of cafés, bars and restaurants have already published their menu with Scanqur.
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