Revenue Management for Operations Teams

Reports are history. Revenue growth needs foresight.

Operational efficiency in a restaurant group isn’t just about cutting costs — it’s about making every floor plan, every seat and every shift work harder. That only happens when your operational decisions are grounded in data that’s current across every site.

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Trusted by the best restaurant groups worldwide
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the challenge

By the time a report lands, the revenue opportunity has moved on.

Your teams work hard and act fast — but revenue data often arrives too late. By the time a report shows a service missed target, the chance to change the outcome has usually passed. Teams can explain what happened, but they can't recover the covers and revenue that slipped away.

Distil closes that gap — connecting forecasting, booking pace, demand signals, availability and revenue data in one clearer, forward-looking view. Instead of waiting for weekly reports or manually pulling numbers together, see where revenue is at risk and where opportunity is opening up in time to do something about it.

Revenue rarely slips all at once. Give your team the toolkit to take control of hitting their targets — and to focus faster, act earlier, and make every key service count.

what Distil delivers

Everything your team needs to act, not just react

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Forward-looking demand signals

See what's coming before it arrives. Distil surfaces booking pace, demand trends, and gap opportunities across your entire estate — weeks ahead, not days behind.

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Cross-site visibility

Stop managing each site in isolation. See performance, pacing, and opportunity across your whole group — so nothing slips through the cracks.

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Live, not-lagging

Distil pulls from every platform you run — reservations, POS, and more — so your revenue picture is always current. Make decisions on what's happening now.

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All data sources, connected

Distil integrates with your reservations, POS, and scheduling tools — giving operations a single, connected view without the manual overhead.

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Continuously improving

As your data grows, your agents get smarter. Distil’s dataset training loop means accuracy improves continuously — without manual intervention.

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Natural language insights

Ask questions in plain English. Get answers grounded in your actual business data from Distil's Agentic Layer — not generalisations from a model that’s never seen your restaurant.

The outcome

An operation that runs on intelligence, not instinct.

When every site is visible and every decision is data-driven, you stop firefighting and start optimising. Distil gives your operations team the edge to run a tighter, smarter group.

Estate-wide visibility

Every site unified in one view

Optimised for growth

Demand-led, data-driven planning

Continuously updated

Data syncing from all platforms, all the time

restaurant analytics in practice

Metrics that make sense. Reports designed for action.


Group Cover Reporting

Group Cover Reporting takes the pulse of performance across the group. Are covers ahead or behind versus last year, and is that gap widening or closing week to week? Slice it by region, brand or division, whichever way you need. Spot the sites pulling ahead and the ones falling behind, then dig into the causes — cancellations, no-shows, and trends over time. See group bookings and à la carte through their own lenses, while their numbers roll up into one overall picture.

This is the heart of reservations, operations and management visibility — the view that moves your teams from "what happened" to "where next," so you can act on a revenue opportunity while it's still there for the taking, not wait for the next report to tell you it's gone.


OpenTable Capacity Report

Designed for customers using OpenTable, Capacity Reporting shows you exactly how hard your floor is working, slot by slot. Are you turning tables fast enough to capture the demand that's out there, or is capacity sitting empty while covers walk past?

Chair occupancy, table occupancy and seating efficiency sit side by side, so you can see whether a site is full but slow, or empty but efficient — two very different problems with two very different fixes.

Flow control and reservability tell you whether the booking rules themselves are helping or hurting — are you protecting service quality at the cost of covers you could have taken? Filter by window, shift, brand, region or division to find exactly where the pressure is, then drop into the heatmap to see which hours and days are driving it — a red patch at 7pm on a Saturday tells a very different story to one spread thinly across the week.

And because every metric rolls up by brand, region and division as well as by restaurant, you can tell in seconds whether an issue is a single underperforming site or a pattern across a whole market — so you know whether to fix one restaurant or rethink a region's approach.


OpenTable Turn Times Report

Turn Times tells you whether your booking slots match how long tables are actually taking — and where that mismatch is costing you covers. Distil's unique partnership with OpenTable helps you answer questions like: are your settings too tight, with parties running over and adding to waiting time at the door? Or too loose, leaving tables sitting idle when you could be turning them faster?

The estate verdict shows you the split in one glance, then breaks it down by party size — because a 2-top and an 8-top rarely need the same fix, and lumping them together hides where the real problem sits.

The revenue metric adds a financial lens: how much covered spend is under analysis, and how many covers are genuinely at risk from turn times that are too tight right now. And because dining duration is a judgement call, not a fixed number, the percentile control lets you decide how aggressive to be — cover the median party and maximise turns, or cover 90% of diners and prioritise a smoother, wait-free service.

Slice all of it by brand, region, division or shift to find out whether a tight setting is a one-restaurant fix or a pattern worth tuning estate-wide.


Marketing Sales Report

Distil's Marketing Sales Reports unlock visibility of the sources, channels and campaigns that are actually driving covers and revenue.

Whatever booking system you run on — OpenTable, SevenRooms or otherwise — see acquisition performance broken down by source, with key metrics: reservations, covers and revenue at a glance, including cancellations, no-show rate and average lead time.

Right now
14
Active visitors
Per secondpeak 7
now-15s-30s-45s-60s
Per minutepeak 40
now-10m-20m-30m
Date range
26 May – 25 Jun 2026
Date axis
BookedVisit
Restaurants
33 of 34
Reservations
45,710
Covers
136,293
Net revenue
£2,641,882
No-show rate
2.4%
Cancel rate
11.1%
Avg lead time
16.3d
Source mixShare of 136,293 covers
Your network 34.4% Opentable network 19.3% Walk-in 25.8% Phone/in-house 9.0% Phone/AI 2.4% Group bookings 9.2%

Go deeper than impressions and clicks, and match marketing activity to your commercial goals. Answer questions like: is a channel bringing in high volume but low value, or fewer visits that convert at a premium? Drill from the top-level source mix: Your Network, Booking platform, Walk-in, Phone, Concierge, AI and more, right down to individual campaigns.

Conversion Paths shows you how guests actually get there — straight to booking, or via a longer journey through several touchpoints. And with 30/60/90 day attribution across 5 different model choices, you control how you want to report on your success.

And because marketing data is only as good as its tagging, Tracking Health, Tagging Issues and UTM Inventory reports let you see how much of your booking activity you can confidently attribute, catch the campaigns and referrers slipping through untagged, and fix them yourself so the numbers are ones you can actually trust and act on.

Trusted by the best

What really stands out about Distil is the partnership. They're genuinely invested in our success and always find creative ways to support our goals — they're never limited by in-the-box thinking.

Sara Kamber
Senior CRM & Loyalty Director — The One Group

Success in restaurants is now about so much more than 'just' great food and service. The combination of Distil's intelligence engine and OpenTable's market data means we have never been able to run our reservations book and rota more effectively, or as far in advance.

Will Beckett
Co-Founder & CEO — Hawksmoor

See revenue risk before service is over.

Give your operations team a live, forward-looking view of demand, availability and revenue — across every site.

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