Lancashire — Preston
Restaurant booking system in Preston
Eightish is built in Preston — the registered office is on Hudson Drive and the product was written here. If you run a restaurant in the city, we are a short drive away, and that is not a marketing line: setup calls happen in your dining room if you want them to.
What a Preston diary actually looks like
Preston’s independent scene runs from Winckley Square and Friargate through Fishergate and out into Fulwood, and it has the shape Eightish was designed around: food-led rooms of forty to a hundred covers, busy Friday and Saturday, quieter Tuesday and Wednesday, and a base of regulars who come back monthly if you remember them. Add a university term that swings your midweek demand twice a year and you have a diary that rewards a system which does something about the quiet nights rather than simply recording them.
Preston restaurants also carry a specific no-show pattern: large groups booked well ahead for occasions, which are exactly the bookings that hurt most when half of them do not appear. Per-guest no-show history at the host stand means your team knows which of tonight’s big tables is worth a confirmation call.
The three things it does
Cuts the no-shows
Text confirmations and reminders on every paid plan, with no per-message charge inside your cover band, plus per-guest no-show history on tonight’s book so the host knows who to check. What no-shows cost.
Runs the service
A live floor plan rather than a list: table states, walk-ins, the waitlist and who is running late, on one screen a busy host can read at a glance. See the host stand.
Fills the quiet nights
Autopilot picks the quietest night ahead and offers held tables to your own regulars who are overdue, keeping a holdout group back so the covers it recovers are measured. How Autopilot works.
Why local matters here
We are not a support ticket in another time zone. Eightish is made by Mensia Limited, registered at 10 Hudson Drive in Preston, and the person who answers hello@eightish.co.uk is the person who wrote the software. For a Preston restaurant that means setup happens in your room, on your floor plan, with your service times — and when something is wrong on a Friday night, you are talking to someone who can fix it rather than log it.
If you are weighing us against the alternatives, we have written an honest comparison of twelve UK booking systems, including several that cost less than we do.
Questions from Preston restaurants
Do you work with restaurants in Preston?
Yes. Eightish is built in Preston and our first venues are on the Fylde coast, so Preston is home ground. Setup is a single 45-minute call and we are happy to do it in your dining room rather than over video.
How much does it cost?
There is a free plan covering 50 online bookings a month with the full host stand and floor plan, and no card required. Paid plans are £69, £139 and £249 a month flat, with text confirmations and reminders included and no per-cover fee or booking commission on any plan.
Can you move our existing diary across?
Yes, and we do it for you. Export your guest list and forward bookings from whatever you are on now — including a spreadsheet or a paper diary — and we load it on the setup call so your regulars are recognised from the first service.
See it on your own floor plan.
Free plan, 50 online bookings a month, no card. Or book the setup call and we move your diary across.