OpenTable for Restaurants vs Plates & Pixels
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
OpenTable for Restaurants
This app helps restaurants manage reservations, optimize operations, and enhance guest experiences. It allows for remote access to key metrics, reservation editing, and marketing campaign initiation. The iPad version offers comprehensive front-of-house and shift planning tools.
- Fill more seats
- Deliver remarkable hospitality
- Optimize operations
- Check cover trends and stats
- Make and edit reservations
- Start marketing campaigns
- Front-of-house guest and table management
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The OpenTable app is a robust restaurant management and marketing solution that helps fill more seats, deliver remarkable hospitality, and optimize operations. It is available for download for all OpenTable customers. From an iPhone, OpenTable customers can stay connected to their restaurant from anywhere. The Owner app on iPhone lets you check cover trends and stats, make and edit reservations, start a marketing campaign, receive VIP push notifications, and more. Additionally, OpenTable customers should use the iPad app for cloud-based front-of-house guest and table management, shift planning, and more. Note: This app is for restaurants using OpenTable. If you want to book a reservation, please download the OpenTable diner app or go to https://www.opentable.com/mobile.
Plates & Pixels
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Plates & Pixels is the back-of-house operating system for hotels and restaurants built to help you run tighter operations, protect your margin, and get hours of your week back, starting from the moment goods arrive at your dock. WHY IT'S DIFFERENT Most software in this category solves one problem: food cost, reconstructed weeks later from a month-end count. Plates & Pixels solves the whole operation receiving, inventory, procurement, supplier relationships, and the numbers that come out of all of it, captured the moment work happens, not rebuilt from memory afterward. WHAT YOU GET • Real-time margin visibility — know your true cost and profit per outlet, per dish, per day, not a month-end guess • Receiving, digitised — photograph delivery notes at the dock, matched automatically against orders and agreed prices, in seconds • Hours back every week — staff spend less time on paperwork, counts, and chasing suppliers, more time on the job that actually matters • Stay organized, always — one system of record for recipes, suppliers, counts, and credits, instead of spreadsheets that drift out of date • Money Protected — track supplier credits from claim to recovery, so nothing owed gets forgotten • Smart counting — voice, barcode, or keypad, built for real kitchens and cellars, not office desks • Variance intelligence — every unexpected number comes with a likely cause, not just a figure to investigate • Full compliance — built for Greek e-invoicing and delivery-note regulations from day one BUILT FOR HOTELS AND RESTAURANT GROUPS Whether you run one restaurant or fifty hotel outlets, Plates & Pixels scales with you. Multi-property, multi-outlet tracking that treats a beach bar and a fine-dining restaurant as the different businesses they actually are — not one blended average that hides where the time and money really go. WHO IT'S FOR Owners who want their margin protected without spending their week chasing it. Hotel groups who need visibility and consistency across dozens of properties. Financial controllers who want numbers that reconcile, not a second set of books to argue with. Kitchen and dock staff who need something fast enough to actually use during service, not after it. GIVE US A MONTH We'll show you where you're leaking money, time, and effort, starting with your very first delivery.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Plates & Pixels at 15.1 against OpenTable for Restaurants's 17.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
OpenTable for Restaurants ships an update weekly, Plates & Pixels every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | OpenTable for Restaurants | Plates & Pixels |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (433 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 24.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 433 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 104 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | OpenTable, Inc. | Pragma IoT |
Bugs and requests
OpenTable for Restaurants
Reported bugs
5 issues- Reservations not syncing across devices
- Guest info not displaying correctly
- Inability to update reservation details
- Crashing and freezing issues
- Compatibility problems with newer devices
Requested features
6 requests- Floor plan view on mobile
- Ability to customize tags/courses
- Waitlist functionality improvements
- More control over reservations on mobile
- Better guest management tools
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- Ability to respond to reviews in-app
Plates & Pixels
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
OpenTable for Restaurants
No in-app purchases
Plates & Pixels
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is OpenTable for Restaurants free?
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Do OpenTable for Restaurants or Plates & Pixels have ads?
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