Dineplan - Restaurant Bookings

Dineplan

About this app

Download the free Dineplan app to browse availability & instantly book your favourite restaurants in South Africa.

SEARCH & BROWSE RESTAURANTS
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Search through our comprehensive list of restaurants by availability, name, area or show available restaurants based on your current location.

To help you decide where to make your reservation, browse and explore restaurants by their customer rating, cuisines on offer, location, opening hours and various other booking options.

INSTANT & REQUEST BOOKINGS
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There are two types of restaurants booking categories: INSTANT BOOKINGS (watermelon colour label) and REQUEST A BOOKING (turquoise label). Click on the 'Book Now' or 'Request' buttons to select a date, party size and time for your reservation.

Bookings at Instant restaurants are instantly confirmed.
Request type bookings need to be accepted or declined by the restaurant. Note: keep a lookout for the 'medal icon' awarded to restaurants that respond promptly to booking requests. The restaurant's Average Response time is provided when tapping the turquoise label - top right on request restaurants.

YOUR BOOKINGS
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View your upcoming and past booking reservations, from the bookings tab. Share, edit or cancel any of your upcoming bookings; and review past bookings.

FAVOURITES
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Tap the 'heart icon' to save your favourite restaurants for quick & easy future bookings.

NOTIFICATIONS
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Instant bookings are confirmed via SMS and/or email. A reminder SMS is also sent 1 day prior and on the day of your booking reservation. Guests can confirm or cancel bookings by simply replying Confirm or Cancel to this SMS/Email message.

KEY PERKS & FEATURES
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☆ Real-time bookings
☆ Quick restaurant availability search
☆ Confirmation and reminders of your reservations
☆ Manage your reservations on the go
☆ Share your reservation and the restaurants Google Map directions with your party
☆ Create a list of your favourite restaurants, for easy booking

Ratings and reviews

This is very much the most convenient way to make restaurant table reservations. It works well and is easy to use. No more telephonic discussions with the chance of getting it wrong or the telephonist failing to record your booking. Also easy to cancel a reservation via sms or the app.

Some time ago, Dineplan decided to start charging a R6 platform fee for bookings with a prepayment. While I understand the requirement to fund the system, the prepayment primarily benefits the restaurant with reduced administrative overhead, and reduced no shows. I therefore don't think it's fair to push this cost onto the customer. I still use the app for bookings, but will no longer be doing prepayments through it instead contacting the restaurants directly.

Bad, the app keeps saying too many rate tokens reached. I can't open at all, tried deleting and installing, still nothing

What’s new

Bug fixes and performance improvements