Dineraffic.
Built restaurant-first · weather-aware forecasting is live

Know how busy tomorrow will be.

Dineraffic predicts covers for your restaurant down to the hour — reading the weather, what's on nearby, and a year of your own service history — so you set the floor, write the prep list, and fill the slow nights on numbers, not gut feel.

Works with your POS · connect in 4 minutes · 14-day trial
Bistro Nord · Predicted covers
3,480 0%
SUNNY
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
✂ WEATHER ALERT

Evening rain Friday — expect −18% walk-ins 6–9pm. Suggested move: a rainy-night promo.

✦ TOP RECOMMENDATION

Run a 4–6pm happy hour Thu–Fri to fill the pre-dinner lull. Projected +62 covers.

TRUSTED BY OWNER-OPERATORS & GROWING RESTAURANT GROUPS
Bistro NordSaffron & Co.The Wharf HouseOleaNord CollectiveMarrow
WHAT IT DOES

Three forces decide how many covers you do.
We model all of them.

01

Hour-by-hour cover forecasts

A covers prediction for every lunch and dinner service, seven days out, with a confidence band so you know how much to trust it. Built from your restaurant's own rhythm, not an industry template.

86%MEDIAN NEXT-DAY ACCURACY
02

Weather & events, priced in

Rain that kills the terrace, a heatwave that fills it, a match down the road, the festival in the square — the model weighs everything outside your four walls and flags it before it hits the door.

40+SIGNALS PER LOCATION
03

Benchmarks & next moves

See how your dining experience ranks against the restaurants around you, then act on plain-language calls — a happy hour for the pre-dinner lull, another server for Saturday, a promo for a Hump Wednesday.

#3NEIGHBOURHOOD RANK, DAILY
BUILT FOR THE LINE

Stop staffing for an average night.

Two quiet Tuesdays and one slammed Saturday average out to a floor plan that's wrong every single day. Dineraffic gives you the shape of the week, service by service, so every shift is sized to the night it's actually working.

  • Cut over-staffing the floor on quiet nights without getting slammed on busy ones
  • Prep the kitchen to the forecast and watch food waste fall with it
  • Aim promotions at the gaps the model finds, not into the dark
COVER DENSITY

A typical week, by hour

Peak · Sat eve
10a12p2p4p6p8p10pMonTueWedThuFriSatSun
HOW IT WORKS

Live in an afternoon. Smarter every week.

1

Connect your restaurant

Link your POS or reservation book in a few clicks. Dineraffic reads the last 12 months of covers to learn the rhythm of your room. No spreadsheets, no hardware on the pass.

2

The model learns your room

It layers local weather, the events calendar, and seasonality over your service history — then back-tests itself against your real numbers until the forecast holds up.

3

You run service on proof

Open the dashboard each morning to a clear call on the day ahead, the reasons behind it, and the one or two moves worth making. The rota and the prep list follow.

86%Median next-day forecast accuracy
−9hrsOver-scheduled floor hours cut per week
22%Less food waste when the kitchen preps to forecast
4minFrom sign-up to first forecast
“We used to staff Fridays on a feeling. Now I know by Wednesday whether it's a four-server night or a six — and the rain that would have caught us out shows up days early.”
JN
Jordan NietoOWNER · BISTRO NORD
PRICING

Priced like a good cover, not a consultant.

SOLO
£69/mo

One restaurant, the full forecast.

  • Hourly cover forecasts, 7 days ahead
  • Weather & event signals
  • Morning brief, daily at 6am
  • Read-only POS connect
  • Email support
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MOST POPULARGROUP
£89/location/mo

Restaurant groups, two sites or more.

  • Everything in Solo
  • Benchmarks across your sites
  • Group roll-up dashboard
  • Unlimited team seats
  • CSV & API export
  • Priority support
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ENTERPRISE
Custom

Groups & chains, 15+ sites.

  • Custom model training
  • SSO & role controls
  • Dedicated success manager
  • SLA & guided onboarding
  • Quarterly model reviews
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FAQ

Asked before, answered plainly.

Do I need to swap my POS?

No. Dineraffic connects read-only to Square, Toast, Lightspeed, SevenRooms and twenty more. It takes about four minutes and touches nothing in your till.

How accurate is the forecast, really?

86% median next-day accuracy across live restaurants. Every number ships with a confidence band, and the model back-tests itself against your own covers before it goes live.

We only opened a few months ago.

The model starts from anonymized patterns of restaurants like yours nearby — same size, same kind of room — then re-weights toward your own data as covers come in. Useful from about eight weeks of history.

What signals move the forecast?

Hour-by-hour weather, local events and fixtures, holidays, seasonality, bookings pace, and your last twelve months of covers — forty-plus signals per restaurant.

We run a bar / café / hotel — is it for us?

Dineraffic is built restaurant-first: covers, services, prep. If you run a room with a kitchen, it will fit today. Bars, cafés and the wider hospitality floor are on the roadmap — leave your email and we’ll tell you when your door count is ready.

What happens after the trial?

From £69 a month, billed monthly. Cancel in a click; export your data any time. Nothing is held hostage.

START FREE — 14 DAYS

Run your first forecast tonight.

Connect your POS, let the model read a year of covers, and walk into tomorrow's service knowing the number. No card, no contract, cancel in a click.