Banquet and private dining software for resorts and clubs
Updated September 15, 2026.
Banquette is private-dining and banquet event software that puts every restaurant, hall and private room of a resort or city club on one book: inquiries, event contracts with e-signature, the BEO (banquet event order), two-chef menu approval and print-first kitchen sheets.
A property sells more than one dining room: the steakhouse takes a rehearsal dinner, the ballroom a gala, and a member books the library for twelve. Banquette keeps them in one book the events office and the kitchen both work from. It is not a property management system.
Running a golf or country club? Read Banquette for golf and country clubs, which covers how the event book sits beside your club management system.
- One book for the property: several restaurants, halls and private rooms, with a lane per venue on the calendar.
- The database refuses to double-book a room, and a buyout holds every room in its venue.
- Each party follows the same path: event contract with e-signature, BEO, two-chef menu approval, kitchen sheet.
- Hosts get a private page with no login; each invited guest gets their own RSVP link.
- Not a PMS: no guest rooms, room blocks or folios, no online payments, and no PMS, POS or accounting integrations.
- House is $499/month for up to three rooms of one property; every room on the property comes with white-label, priced by conversation.
What does one book mean across several restaurants and halls?
Each venue — the steakhouse, the terrace, the ballroom — takes a lane on the calendar. The private rooms inside a venue share its lane, and the database will not let two parties hold the same room at overlapping times.
| On the book | How it works |
|---|---|
| Venues | A lane each on the calendar |
| Rooms | The database refuses a double booking |
| Buyouts | Hold every room in the venue at once |
| Price book | An “Every room” section plus room tabs |
| Kitchen | A production board totals dishes across rooms |
| Staff phones | A one-way calendar feed per device |
Does Banquette replace a resort’s PMS or sales-and-catering system?
No. Banquette keeps no guest rooms, room blocks or folios, and it connects to no PMS, POS or accounting system; there is no public API. A resort whose events are mostly conferences with group room blocks is better served by a sales-and-catering system tied to its PMS. Banquette runs the other half: private dining and banquets in the restaurants and halls.
Money is recorded, not processed. The office takes payment as it does today and records it, and each contract’s payment schedule shows what is due and what is late.
Who signs off the menu?
Two different chefs. A party’s menu becomes sellable once two different chef seats have signed it; change a course and the signatures fall away, while a price change leaves them standing. Until both are on, the book refuses the first send of that party’s contract, though a party with no menu yet can still be sent.
We set each seat’s title when we set up the property, so the second chef seat can read Director of Food & Beverage. You cannot rename seats yourself, and the rules do not move: only chef seats sign, and only the general manager or events manager countersigns a contract. More on two-chef menu approval.
What do hosts and guests see?
A private page with no account or password, for a couple, a company or a member: the evening, the menu and count, the guest list, and what has been paid and what is still due. The host signs the event contract by typing their name; the terms are fixed by a hash and the signature keeps an evidence record. The page carries the property’s name, and under white-label its palette and type at its own subdomain on banquette.events. See the host page with no login.
Each invited guest gets their own link, sent from a banquette.events address under the property’s name, to answer, set seats and leave one note for the kitchen. Replies do not move the count. How per-guest RSVP links work.
What does the kitchen get?
Paper first. Each day’s kitchen sheet prints from the live book: every party’s menu, the count to cook to and every guest’s dietary note, with ruled lines for the pencil. Each party also has a printable BEO: the menu, the count to cook to, outside vendors with load-in times, notes, the money and who to call.
The guarantee falls due 48 hours before the party, worked out in the venue’s own time zone; the office locks the count. See BEOs and print-first kitchen sheets, or what a banquet event order is.
How does an existing events book come across?
We bring it in during onboarding from a Daily Events Report export (spreadsheet or PDF); importing the same file twice never doubles the book. Old BEOs do not import, but the office can attach them to a party as a photo or PDF.
What does it cost?
Flat per property, never a percentage of event revenue. House is $499 a month for up to three rooms of one property on one book; every room on the property, in your own palette and type, is the white-label tier, priced by conversation after a tour. Annual billing runs two months free. See Banquette pricing.
Questions resorts and clubs ask
Is Banquette a PMS or a hotel sales-and-catering system?
No. Banquette keeps no guest rooms, room blocks or folios, and it connects to no PMS, POS or accounting system. It runs the private dining and banquet book for the property’s restaurants, halls and private rooms.
Can several restaurants and a ballroom share one book?
Yes. The calendar gives each venue its own lane, the database refuses to double-book a room, and a buyout holds every room in its venue.
Can the seats carry our own titles?
Yes, set by us when we set up the property: the second chef seat can read Director of Food & Beverage. You cannot rename seats yourself, and the rule underneath is fixed: a party’s menu sells only once two different chef seats have signed it.
Does the guest count lock automatically 48 hours out?
No. Banquette works out the guarantee deadline, 48 hours before the party, in the venue’s own time zone. The office locks the count by hand; after that, the book refuses a different number.
Can a host pay online, or charge an event to a room or member account?
No. Banquette processes no payments and keeps no room or member accounts. The office takes payment as it does today and records it; the contract’s payment schedule shows what is due and what is late.
Does Banquette work for golf and country clubs?
Yes, beside the club management system rather than in place of it; golf and country clubs have their own page. Nothing in Banquette is specific to golf: no tee sheet, no tournaments.