Free loyalty program and back office for restaurants
Tuesday is the empty day. Fill it without cutting the price.
People pick a restaurant for a birthday, a date or a Friday with friends. Then months can pass before they pick you again.
Short answer
Is there a free loyalty app for a restaurant?
Months between visits
A good meal, then a long silence
Most diners do not eat with you weekly. They come for a reason, a few times a year.
Between those visits they forget your name and hear about the new place nearby.
Table turns are the other limit. A table left empty on Tuesday cannot be sold twice on Saturday.
So the job is to stay in their mind, and to move some visits to the quiet nights.
45
days, then Slipping away
Diners return less often than coffee drinkers. KANJIN waits 45 days with no stamp before a diner moves into the Slipping away group.
Stamp card
Five visits fits how often people dine out
5 stamps earn a free dessert or starter for the table.
A 10-stamp card takes a monthly diner almost a year to fill. Most give up halfway.
Five visits for a dessert is within reach, and it costs you little in the kitchen.
Stamp at the host stand after the bill is paid, from the guest’s phone number.
An example
A table of four on a Tuesday
Four guests spend $30 a head, so the bill comes to $120.
At 32% food cost, the food on that table cost about $38.
That leaves about $82 toward wages, rent and profit.
The table would have stood empty, so most of that $82 is extra.
One booking like that each week is about $330 a month before any extra staff. Judge a quiet-night offer against that sum.
Free calculator
Is each plate priced for the margin you need?
A free dessert is only cheap when the menu is priced right. Enter what a plate costs you and the food cost percent you aim for. You get the menu price, and the food cost you run at today.
Everything on the plate or in the cup
Many cafes and restaurants aim for 25–35%
Leave empty for a new item
Your price should be
$12.75
$8.95 left per sale after ingredients
Your food cost today
33%
$7.70 left per sale at $11.50
To hit 30%, raise it by $1.25. Or keep the price and bring the plate cost down to $3.45.
Food cost here is the ingredients only. Wages, rent and packaging are not in it, which is why the target is a third of the price and not most of it.
What restaurant owners worry about
“A loyalty card feels cheap for a nice restaurant.”
Nothing about it has to show. There is no plastic. The card lives on a phone number, and the reward can be a dessert, not a discount.
“Our booking system already keeps guest details.”
Keep it. KANJIN works next to it and next to any POS. It adds visit counts and a list you may email once guests say yes.
“Servers will forget to ask during a busy service.”
Put the counter poster by the door. Guests scan its QR code and join from their own phone while they wait for the check.
See it at a counter
Watch “How to Make a Free Digital Stamp Card for Your Shop (No App Needed)” on YouTube
Restaurant questions
- How do I get diners to come back on a weeknight?
- Ask for an email at the first visit, with a clear yes. On the paid plan, KANJIN drafts a slow-day email for your quiet night. You read it and press Send.
- What food cost percentage should my restaurant aim for?
- There is no single right number. It depends on your rent, wages and prices. Start from the margin you need, and let the calculator set the menu price.
- How long before KANJIN treats a diner as gone?
- After 45 days with no stamp, a diner moves to Slipping away. The paid win-back email works differently. A diner with 3 or more visits gets their own usual gap plus 14 days.
- Do restaurant guests need to download an app?
- No. A guest gives a phone number, or scans the poster and opens a web page. There is nothing to install.
Also worth a look
Capacity
See what your seats and opening hours earn when every table is full.
Menu matrix
Sort dishes by margin and by how often they are ordered.
Tip pool
Split the night’s tips by the hours each server worked.
Put a stamp card on your restaurant counter this week
Type your email and the form opens with it filled in. Nothing is sent from here.
No card, no time limit. Or open the form empty.