bavoli vs Shokken

bavoli is a web service combining restaurant ordering, reservations, waitlists, menus, guest profiles, and a phone agent. Guests can place pickup, delivery, QR table-service, or kiosk orders through one menu. Reservations can come from a restaurant website or Google, while the digital waitlist provides real-time wait times and automatic notifications. Guest CRM records preferences, visit history, dietary needs, and special occasions. The Free plan costs nothing, needs no card, and includes unlimited reservations, waitlist parties, and covers, texts for the first 25 parties monthly, and 60 phone-agent minutes once. Plus is $30 a month or $300 a year; Pro is $60 a month or $600 a year. A phone-agent add-on costs $50 a month or $500 a year, and an Event pass costs $150, paid once. Ordering fees are $0.50 pickup, $1.00 delivery, and 0.5% QR or kiosk; delivery is currently for US restaurants.

Shokken is a restaurant waitlist service that lets staff manage parties while guests follow their place in line. Guests can join from a browser using a QR code, without installing an app or creating an account, then share a live tracker with the rest of their party. Staff can manage multiple waitlists, run a tablet in kiosk mode, let guests leave the list, and clear finished parties overnight. Restaurants can publish a public menu at an assigned Shokken URL and make printable QR cards and signs. Guest pages support English, Spanish, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Tagalog; the host app is in English. The free plan includes manual entry, QR self-join, browser tracking, core waitlist tools, and public menus. Founding Pro is $19.99 for the first month, then $99.99/month while continuously active; its regular rate is $200/month. The service is available to U.S. restaurants and needs internet access to sync lists and send texts.