table turnover
Diner departure rate
Table turnover is how quickly a restaurant cycles customers through its seating.
High turnover means tables are cleared and reseated rapidly, maximizing revenue per seat.
Managers track it as a performance metric: We need to improve table turnover during the dinner rush.
Fine dining typically has slower turnover than fast-casual establishments.
- restaurantPlace serving meals
- seatingAvailable places to sit
- rotationTurning on an axis
- busyActively occupied with tasks
- waitlistRoster of pending hopefuls
wait time · covers · guests · dining · rush · efficiency · reservations · flip · service · host · front of house · capacity · full house · peak · revenue · clearing · bussing · plates
- Restaurant Operationsmenu planning, staff scheduling, inventory, food cost, reservations
- restaurantsmenu, chef, reservations, waitstaff, hostess stand
- business accountingaccounts payable, accountant, accounts receivable, accounts, accrual
- hospitality termstipping, gratuity, customer service, reservations, waitlisting
customer behavior
table turnoverextended stays
Accommodations for longer durations
campers · dawdling · overstaying · loitering
table, tables, tabled, tabling, tabular, tabulate, tabulation, tableau, tableaux