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Writing on running restaurants, building software for the floor, and the numbers that matter when the kitchen prints its first ticket.
Operations · featured
The real cost of a double booking
Double bookings aren't a hostess problem — they're a data problem. We pulled six months of cover data and found the real number.
Daria Ilic · Jun 12, 2026 · 7 min
Inside the data
Venues sampled87
Double-booking events1,204
Avg cost per event£214
Top causeMulti-platform inbound · 82%
Post-VenueCore drop−94%
Product
White-label isn't a skin
Why running guest-facing flows on your own domain matters more than the colour of the button.
May 28, 2026 · 5 min
Finance
Covers per labour-hour: the metric that survives recessions
Average check is the vanity metric. Covers per labour-hour is the one that tells you if the room is healthy.
May 9, 2026 · 6 min
Release
Shipping v3.2: live P&L, supplier OCR, and the new floor canvas
The biggest VenueCore release of the year is out. Here's what's in it.
Apr 22, 2026 · 4 min