Release the seats you weren’t going to fill.

Carte is a Dallas dining app. A guest picks the night, the time, the party size and the price range — and we pick the room. They learn the neighbourhood four hours out and the address one hour before they sit down.

We are only after your quiet hours: the seating before the rush and the one after it. If those seats sell, you are paid for covers you would not otherwise have had. If they don’t, they come straight back to you.

The arrangement

You choose the seats. Which nights, which window, how many covers. Two four-tops at 5:30 on Tuesdays is a perfectly good answer.
You hold them in your own book. The block sits in whatever system you already run, under a Carte house account. Nothing to install and nothing to switch.
Unsold seats come back. Anything we haven’t filled is released to you at the hour you choose — two hours before service is the usual answer.
Your no-show policy is the policy. We hold a card for every guest and mirror your rules — your amount, your basis, your window. If you charge nothing, we charge nothing.
Late is late. If a Carte guest is more than fifteen minutes past the seating and hasn’t called, the table is yours again.
The first ten covers are free. After that it is a flat per-cover rate set by price band, shown to you in writing before you sign anything. No monthly fee, no contract term, no exclusivity.

The room

Restaurant name

Street address

Neighbourhood

Kitchen

Typical spend per person, food only

Rough is fine. We set the price band a guest sees, not you.

Who we talk to

Name

Role

Phone

What you run today

Reservation system

We work alongside whatever you use. We are not asking you to move off it, and we don’t need access to it.

What you’d release

Seats per night, per window

Early 5:15 – 6:15

The seating before the rush.

Covers you’ll release

Late 9:00 and after

The seating after the rush.

Covers you’ll release

Leave a window at zero if it doesn’t suit you. Most rooms start with four covers in one window and add from there.

Largest party you’ll take on these seats

Your house rules

No-show fee

Charged

Leave at zero if you don’t charge for no-shows. We mirror whatever you do — we don’t impose a fee of our own.

Free cancellation until

Unsold seats return

We can hold our own confirmation message until Carte reveals the room. Carte guests don’t know where they are eating until an hour before. If your system emails or texts a confirmation with your name on it, it gives the surprise away. Ticking this means you’re willing to suppress it, delay it, or let us send it for you. If you’d rather talk it through first, leave it unticked — it is not a condition of applying.

Anything else

Notes for us

I can commit these seats on behalf of this restaurant. This isn’t a contract. We’ll send the one-page agreement with your per-cover rate on it, and nothing is booked until you sign it.

We have it.

You’ll hear from us within two business days — a one-page agreement with your per-cover rate, and a time to walk through the first week if you want one.

If it’s faster to just talk, we’re at hello@cartedining.com.