--- type: WebPage name: Save room for the booking. id: "https://selfe.ai/solutions/restaurants-and-pubs" url: "https://selfe.ai/solutions/restaurants-and-pubs" publisher: "did:web:selfe.ai" description: "Selfe gives restaurants and pubs a current answer on table availability, service and your rules, then writes the booking into the system they already use." --- # Save room for the booking. > Selfe gives restaurants and pubs a current answer on table availability, service and your rules, then writes the booking into the system they already use. A Saturday table request gets a real yes or alternative, on the rules you set, rather than a phone number and a suggestion to try later. Selfe reads availability and service details from the system you already use, then places the booking in it. **Casa Bella** An Italian restaurant in Keswick, now recognised by an agent through OpenTable, via Visit Keswick. **Fellpack** A Keswick restaurant, now recognised by an agent through real-time table availability, via ResDiary, through Visit Keswick. ## Everything about you is reachable except the table. AI can already describe a Friday night. The menu, reviews and opening hours give an agent enough to recommend you. Then it asks for four at eight on Saturday. That answer sits behind a booking widget or diary an agent cannot operate. The recommendation ends with a phone number. Some will call. Most will eat somewhere that can answer. ## The table, and everything around it. A table is not a slot, and most of what decides a booking is the part around it. **Availability by party size and time.** Not whether a table exists, but whether six at half seven works against your turn times. **Your place, your rules.** The round one for a birthday, the quiet end away from the door, the corner with room for a pushchair. **What comes out of the kitchen.** Allergens, the children's menu, the roast that stops at four, the kitchen closing before the bar. **Straight into your diary.** The table goes into whatever you use today, with deposits and no-show terms where you want them. ## Worth reading next The latest on how agents actually work, written as it happens. **The request behind your booking button is what matters.** A booking button helps a person start a journey. An agent needs to establish the terms of a specific request, know what it may do and carry the relevant context into the next step. **Someone asks for a dog-friendly stay in October. What happens next?** A dog-friendly stay in October sounds like a simple filter until an AI agent tries to act on it. What happens next depends on details a first-pass search never asks for. **How much does an agent need to know before it can buy?** Not everything. An AI agent working through a booking request doesn't need a business's full history, it needs the small number of facts that resolve the specific thing the person asked for. A page with forty things to say and none of them the right one loses to a page with three. ## You get picked for whatever makes you particular. Six tables and a wood fired oven. The only kitchen for miles doing vegetarian food worth the drive. A garden that takes dogs, and a Sunday that runs until four. Each of those is a reason somebody picks you, and each is a fact your Selfe can be asked for directly. So the people who wanted precisely that turn up, and they turn up knowing the high chair is there and the kitchen is still on at nine, which is the quiet half of a good evening. Covers booked by people who came for what you are rather than for what was nearest tend to spend more and complain less. ## Three easy ways to get started, take your pick. Whether you just want to get on with it or learn more about agentic commerce, there is a route to get started with Selfe that's just right for you. All you need to do is click. ## Will it give away a table we have not got? It cannot offer what your diary does not have. Covers, sittings and service hours are checked when an agent asks, and an agreed table is written back like one taken through your existing booking flow. A request your rules do not cover comes to you. **Is this another booking channel?** No. A channel puts the guest inside its own marketplace and usually keeps the relationship. Selfe answers wherever the asking happens, then places the booking into your own system at your own rate. It adds a direct route rather than another destination you have to operate. **What does Selfe connect to?** Usually your website, the system holding your calendar or stock, whatever takes payment and the important places where you are already listed. It only needs the connections required for the actions you choose to allow. If a system is not listed, we check the available connection before recommending a route. **What does Selfe do when it is not sure?** It stops and asks, showing the conflict, sources and decision required. Everything it settles alone is logged. Your answer can become a playbook rule, so the same uncertainty does not keep returning. **Should we choose Self, Assisted or Selfe-Made?** Choose Self when the standard connections and playbook fit. Choose Assisted when you want us to check the setup or the systems are less straightforward. Choose Selfe-Made when the difficult part is agreeing custom rules across people, properties, products or approval layers. You end up on the same platform in all three. ## Act on this - [Check whether an agent can buy from you](https://selfe.ai/agentic-commerce/buyability-check) — the free readiness scan. - [Discover venues](https://selfe.ai/api/registry/discover) — `POST`, semantic browse across the registry. - [Match a bookable answer](https://selfe.ai/api/registry/match) — `POST` with dates and party size. - [Verify Selfe's identity](https://selfe.ai/.well-known/did.json) — `did:web:selfe.ai`. - [Agent card](https://selfe.ai/.well-known/agent-card.json) — how to connect over A2A or MCP.