On the Early Breakfast Show Relebogile Mabotja spoke to Relebogile Mabotja spoke to Greg Whitefiled about how Dineplan app allows users to make reservations in real time and makes it easier for restaurants to manage tables.
The app, available on Android and iOS phones since last week, allows users to explore restaurants by availability, name and area or find nearby restaurants with available tables based on their current location to make effortless reservations at a tap of a button.
Greg Whitfield is the co-founder of Dineplan – the leading restaurant reservations system in South Africa which offers a full stack reservation software solution to 1000s of restaurants nationwide. Greg understands the many challenges guests and restaurants face when making and managing reservations, and Dineplan achieves in solving these.
After starting a career in investment banking, Greg followed his entrepreneurial dreams and together with school friend, Martin Rose, founded Dineplan in 2011. Working closely with the restaurant industry, they developed back-end reservation software specifically for restaurants. They spent the first 6 years selling this software to restaurants and continuously developing the functionality of the reservation software.