TablePlay

Per table

The dessert plates are gone. The coats are still on the chairs. That quarter of an hour decides the bill.

One more coffee, one more round, or the card machine. That is what gets settled in those minutes. What tips it is rarely the menu. It is whether there is still something happening at the table.

The screen that fills the quarter of an hour

Under the games sit the two buttons that pay for it: order something else, and leave a review while the table is still there.

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Get started on tableplay.online

The button brings you to tableplay.online, where TablePlay runs and where you register your venue. This address is the domain our email was sent from.

Where the money actually is

A table that is still busy stays longer than a table waiting only for the bill.
There is nothing to buy in: it runs on the phones already lying on the table.
You can see how many tables played each night, so you can hold it against your own figures.

What the research shows

2moments that decide the rating

How an experience is rated afterwards is driven almost entirely by two moments: the peak and the end.

A meta-analysis of 174 effect sizes confirmed the pattern in 2022. This is about how memory works, not about hospitality. What follows for an evening out is that the last quarter of an hour carries more weight than the two hours before it.

Kahneman, Fredrickson, Schreiber and Redelmeier (1993), Psychological Science

+40%gross margin on drinks

Slowing the background music lifted the gross margin on drinks by more than 40 per cent, same menu.

It was a study about music, not about games. What it demonstrates is the size of the lever: one change to the room moved what went over the bar. Anything that keeps a table seated pulls in that same direction.

Milliman (1986), Journal of Consumer Research

What you get

The full set of games, and whatever comes next
One table card per table, chosen from hundreds of designs
Games built for kids, and games built for grown-ups
Play alone, play the table, or take on the whole room
Nothing to advertise at your guests, and always in their language
Your logo printed on the card

What fills that quarter of an hour

The coats are still on the chairs and nobody has asked for the bill. Whatever gets played shows up over the bar.

65games to choose from

A table that sees its own number over the bar has a reason to sit through another round, and that quarter of an hour is where the bill is decided.

Fifteen minutes waiting feels different when something is moving on the screen meanwhile.

From where you are sitting

Scan the code and you are exactly where a guest is when the plates go.

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Twelve months at no costStill 100 of the 100 places open in Ireland

Twelve months without an invoice

While places are still open, your venue runs a full year at no charge. You decide after that, not now.

30days at no cost at all

No purchase obligation, and no payment details up front.

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What it costs

€ 29a month10 tables or fewer
Our recommendation€ 49a monthup to 25 tables
€ 79a monthno limit

From the last plate to the last order

The code is already on the table, so nothing needs arranging at that moment.
Guests keep playing while you clear the table.
Your staff come by while there is still time to order something.

Where this helps, and where it does not

Won't tables sit too long on a busy night?

That is a fair point. You decide which tables and which days the games are available on, so on a night with a queue at the door you switch them off.

What does it cost per month?

That depends on the number of tables and the country. The prices are shown on tableplay.online during sign-up.

Am I tied into anything?

The terms are shown at sign-up on tableplay.online, before you confirm anything.