Online Restaurant Booking System (Clone of OpenTable.com) - Case Study

Client Profile

The client is one of the leading business application providers based out of Ireland.

Purpose

To build an Online Restaurant Booking System that allows the restaurants and its agents to manage tables and online bookings. The application should be like opentable clone.
To allow restaurants to maintain diary of bookings and table allocations.

Business Need

In order to avoid table waiting time at restaurants, online booking requests are encouraged by restaurants. The client wanted to develop an online restaurant booking system that allows the hotels to register and manage their bookings online. The client wanted the system to work more like opentable.com. The Online Restaurant Booking System should also be able to provide an administrative interface for managing table allocations and diary of bookings for hotel admin staff.

Solution

To address the needs mentioned above, an ecommerce portal is been developed which ensures real time and effective management of bookings, cancellations along with client updates on various activities related to booking.

Features

Website provides information about
- Restaurants
- Detail page with photos
- Food/cuisine
- Area/locations
- Reservations based on availability checks
- o Search
Online booking for restaurants
Diary and Table management
Invoices and payments
Roaster system
Administration and display of hotel information

Tools and Technologies used for implementation

ASP.Net framework 2.0
ActiveX controls
SQL Server 2005
HTML and JavaScript