Get your evenings back.
We give independent restaurants their time back. Our AI assistant takes the admin off your plate, so you get more time for your guests, your family and your rest.
Less admin. More service.
Over 20 years on the floor, from kitchen porter to general manager, from truck stops to Michelin-starred kitchens.
Book a free 5-minute demo. No commitment.
FOR INDEPENDENT RESTAURANTS, CAFÉS & BARS
Admin steals your time off.
Time is what independent owners and managers lack most. The work around service doesn’t stop when service does: it follows you home, into your evenings and your days off.
Emails after every shift
Booking emails arrive at all hours, and each one has to be copied into the reservation system by hand: new, changed, cancelled. It often gets done after close, when you should be heading home.
Invoices on your day off
Supplier invoices pile up in the inbox and get checked on your day off. A small price rise on a key ingredient is easy to miss, and it quietly eats into your margin.
No time left for the rest
Replying to reviews, planning social posts, looking at what sells: it all matters, but it eats into the time you’d rather spend with guests, family, or simply resting.
How many hours a week do you spend on admin? That’s the time we want to give back.
Every task we automate is time handed back.
We set up a Grok Bot AI assistant for your restaurant, in your name, and connect it to the tools you already use. It takes the routine jobs off your plate in the background; we monitor it and fix anything that breaks.
Bookings on autopilot
No more copying booking emails by hand.
Booking emails are entered into Wix Table Reservations every 15 minutes: new, changed and cancelled. Duplicates are cleaned up automatically.
Supplier invoice tracking
Your day off stays a day off.
Invoices are read from your inbox and logged by supplier. Price rises are flagged, with a monthly spend summary.
Reminders & evening summary
No need to check the book before you leave.
A daily booking reminder, SMS confirmations for guests, and an optional evening text with tomorrow's bookings: covers, times and notes.
Review Care
Reviews answered without the late-night typing.
Personalised replies to your 3–5★ Google reviews. Replies to 1–2★ reviews are drafted for your approval, never sent without you.
Booking insight & forecasts
No more evenings spent on spreadsheets.
Booking statistics and weekly cover forecasts built from your booking history, so planning staff and stock takes less of your time.
Social media & Reels
No more blank-page planning.
A monthly Instagram Reels calendar and shot list with 8 Reel ideas, ready to film during a quiet moment.
Smart table planning (Pro & Premium)
Fuller services without the table puzzle.
We set up your floor plan in Wix Table Reservations: a visual table layout, min/max seats per table, and table combinations for larger groups. Tables are assigned to bookings automatically, or by your staff. On top of that, your assistant flags services that aren't full, suggests table combinations or time slots so more covers fit in, and keeps a waitlist to refill cancellations. You stay in control and approve every change.
Three packages. Set menus.
Every pack buys back your time. Choose all-inclusive and we look after the tools for you, or pay your own tools directly and take the lower monthly price. Either way, every account is in your restaurant's name.
Essential
Bookings handled, day in, day out.
All-inclusive: £165/month
or £99/month if you pay your own tools
One-off setup: £300
Booking email automation
Daily booking reminder
Wix SMS confirmations
Duplicate clean-up
Monitoring and fixes
Email: free Gmail (no professional email)
Pro
Bookings, numbers and reviews.
All-inclusive: £295/month
or £229/month if you pay your own tools
One-off setup: £550
Everything in Essential
Stats and weekly cover forecast
Smart table planning
All-supplier invoice tracking
Spotify playlist for each service
Review Care: Google review replies
Google Workspace business email
30-minute monthly review
Email: professional Google Workspace email
Premium
The full kitchen, run with you.
All-inclusive: £515/month
or £449/month if you pay your own tools
One-off setup: £950
Everything in Pro
Smart table planning
Reels calendar + shot list (8 ideas)
2-hour on-site visit each month
One-page site + upkeep included
Profit Check + Menu Check (quarterly)
Review Care with weekly summary
Evening SMS: tomorrow's bookings
Priority support
Email: professional Google Workspace email + evening SMS summary
All-inclusive: your AI assistant, Wix plan and domain are included, plus a Google Workspace business email on Pro and Premium. Domain renewal from year 2 is included too. Everything is set up in your restaurant's name, and you own every account.
Pay your own tools: choose the lower price and pay each provider directly, at cost, with no mark-up from us. All accounts stay in your name; we're added as managers only.
Monthly rolling after a 3-month minimum.
Prices are final. We are not VAT registered.
Add-ons
Restaurant website: £500 one-off
A one-page site with menu, photos, map and bookings, mobile-friendly. 3–5 pages: £750. Maintenance £20/month.
Evening SMS summary: £15/month
Up to 2 texts a day, like an evening text with tomorrow's bookings: covers, times and notes. Add-on for Essential and Pro; included in Premium.
Profit Check: £150 setup + £99/month
A monthly dashboard of margins and costs against industry benchmarks, with 3 actions. Add-on for Essential and Pro.
Menu Check: £180 + £90/quarter
Best and slow sellers from your till data: keep, reprice or remove, made clear. Add-on for Essential and Pro.
Review Care: £29/month
Personalised auto-replies to 3–5★ Google reviews; 1–2★ replies drafted for your approval. Weekly summary +£10/month. Add-on for Essential.
From first call to going live.
No jargon, and no long contracts: a 3-month minimum, then monthly rolling. We do the technical work; you keep running your restaurant.
1. Free demo
A free 5-minute demo with the person who will build your setup: we show you the systems working on a real restaurant's day. No commitment.
2. Your setup
We talk through how bookings, invoices and reviews reach you today, and recommend the right package.
3. Accounts in your name
We create or connect your accounts (assistant, Wix, domain, email) in your restaurant's name. We're added as managers.
4. Build & test
We set up your automations and test them on your real emails before anything goes live.
5. Go live
Your assistant starts working. We monitor it, fix issues and review results with you.
Based in Edinburgh. Built for independents.
ScotByte is a small Edinburgh business that helps independent restaurants, cafés and bars spend less time on admin.
Our background is the floor, not an office. Our founder has over 20 years in hospitality and has worked every role, from kitchen porter to general manager. It all started in 1997, in France, in every kind of venue: truck stops, Michelin-starred restaurants, bars and fast food. Since late 2018, it has continued here in Edinburgh, in restaurants, bars and cafés.
So we know first-hand what eats a manager's time: booking emails to copy across, supplier invoices to check, reviews to answer after a long shift. That's why we keep things practical: tools that run quietly in the background, explained in plain English, at prices an independent can afford.
We speak both languages: the pass and the tech. We understand a busy service and the systems behind it equally well, so we build tools that fit how a restaurant really works, and we explain them without jargon.
You own everything: every account is in your restaurant's name. We're added as managers only, and you can remove us at any time.
Your data stays separate: each restaurant has its own assistant account, so your data is never mixed with anyone else's (UK GDPR).
You stay in control: anything sensitive, like a reply to a bad review, is drafted for your approval, never sent without you.
Clear prices: fixed monthly prices, a 3-month minimum, then monthly rolling.
Not a big consultancy. People you know.
Big consultancies and agencies have their place. We bet on the human side instead.
Real people, not a call centre
You deal directly with the people who build and look after your system. We pick up, and we come in when it helps.
We know your restaurant
We learn how your service actually runs, so you never have to explain it twice.
Plain English, no jargon
No slide decks or buzzwords. Clear answers from people who have worked a service.
No one-size-fits-all
Our packs are a starting point, adapted to your restaurant. No long contracts pushed on you: a 3-month minimum, then monthly rolling.
REAL EXAMPLE
Osaka, Edinburgh. Already running.
Osaka, a Japanese restaurant in Edinburgh, already uses these systems in its day-to-day service. We also built their website.
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Reservations handled by email automatically
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A daily booking count
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Booking forecasts
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Supplier invoice tracking
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Their restaurant website, built by us