NightDraft reads the big booking enquiries that land in your inbox, writes the reply the way you would, attaches the right menu, and leaves it in your Drafts. You read it, change anything you like, and press send. Nothing ever goes out without you.
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Sixty seconds. Better with the sound on.
Large parties, dietary requests, date changes, cancellations - all mixed in with supplier emails. You reply between prep and lunch, typing on your phone, hoping you don't double-book or miss someone's anniversary dinner.
lost daily typing replies on your phone between services
large party requests sitting unanswered while you're on the floor
booking emails per week for a typical independent restaurant
covers is the OpenTable cap - everything bigger spills into email
NightDraft watches your inbox around the clock and leaves a finished draft for you to approve.
NightDraft reads each booking email as it lands, works out the party size, date and time, and spots any questions or dietary flags.
It writes the full reply the way you would, answers their questions and attaches the right menu, then leaves the draft in your Gmail.
Read the draft, change anything you like, and send it from Gmail. Nothing goes out on its own.
Most AI tools try to learn your restaurant by reading your old emails and hoping they got it right. NightDraft does the opposite. Your facts are written down once, checked by you, and locked.
Your prices, opening hours, party-size rules, cancellation policy and corkage are written down once and signed off by you.
NightDraft reads your rulebook before it writes a single word, so the facts are never improvised on the spot.
It will not make up a number or a policy. Anything that has not been confirmed with you comes back to you.
NightDraft learns how you write from your best, most careful replies, not the rushed two-liners you fire off mid-service. The voice can flex from one guest to the next. The facts underneath never move.
"Hi, I'd love to book for 12 for my mum's birthday on the 14th. Is there a set menu, and could we bring a couple of our own bottles?"
"Hi Sarah, how lovely - thank you for thinking of us for your mum's birthday. For a party of twelve we run our group menu, which I've attached. You're very welcome to bring your own wine; corkage is £40 a bottle. Shall I pencil you in for the 14th? Best, Bookings"
Trained on your best emails, not your busiest
Opens every reply with the guest's first name
Answers their questions in your words
Your facts stay locked, your voice stays human
Behind the writing sits a checker that reads every draft before it reaches you and holds back anything that is off, so a wrong reply never lands in your hands.
The menu has to match the price, the wording has to follow your house style, and the guest has to be greeted by name. If anything fails, the draft is held back.
If a guest mentions a serious allergy, NightDraft will not let a reply through that ignores it. It flags it for you and leaves it in your hands.
NightDraft only writes drafts. It has no send button. Every reply waits in your Gmail Drafts for your eyes and your send.
Two restaurants get completely different replies, because the voice is built from each owner's own writing. Below: The Lorne, our first restaurant, and two illustrations of how others might sound.
Built specifically for independent restaurants, not retrofitted from enterprise software.
Set menus, corkage, deposits, hours, dietary - answered in the same reply, in your words, from your own past emails.
Sorts bookings, changes, cancellations and dietary queries, and flags anything that needs your eye.
Confirm drafts attach your correct menu as a PDF, with prices kept off the email itself. Just how you'd do it.
Read the queue on your phone over coffee. Tweak a word, then send.
Answers in the same email thread, and skips anything you've already replied to yourself.
Pulls allergies and intolerances out of long threads and flags them clearly. It won't send a reply that ignores one.
NightDraft lives in your Gmail, where your booking emails already arrive. Nothing new to log into, and it never sends on your behalf.
One flat monthly price per restaurant. No per-cover fees, no long contract.
A handful of London restaurants to start. No card to join.
We're opening NightDraft to a small number of independent London restaurants first - the kind where the owner still answers the big enquiries at night. If that's you, join the early-access list and we'll be in touch to walk you through how it fits your inbox.
Join the early-access listNo card, no commitment. Or email freddie@nightdraft.com directly