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Restaurant Reservation App Wireframe

A restaurant reservation app wireframe maps the screens a diner uses to book a table: party size and time, search, a restaurant page with open slots, and the booking form. This free template rebuilds 15 screens from OpenTable's iOS app, with a party size and time picker, results with bookable times, filters, a map, ratings for food, service and ambience, an occasion picker and a confirmation. Edit it online in Whimsical to plan your restaurant reservation app design.

OpenTable's table booking flow as editable gray wireframes, from party size to a confirmed booking.

What's included

  • Home and party size picker. A home screen with tables available for dinner now and promoted picks, and a sheet for party size, day and half-hour time.
  • Results, filters and map. 620 restaurants nearby with seating types, price, distance and a bookable slot on each card, filters for cuisine, area and price, and a map with area labels.
  • Restaurant detail and reviews. Price band, cuisine, photos, quarter-hour slots, a walk-in note and Find future availability, plus ratings for food, service, ambience and noise.
  • Booking form and confirmation. An occasion picker, a special request field and dining points, then a confirmed booking with Manage booking, the menu and directions.
  • Bookings, takeaway and account. Upcoming bookings, a takeaway menu, an empty saved list, a profile with points and dietary preferences, and push, text and email settings.

Why wireframe a restaurant reservation app?

  • Put availability up front. Time slots on every result card let diners book from the list instead of opening each restaurant.
  • Start from the diner's constraints. Party size and time sit at the top of the home screen, so results only show tables that exist.
  • Plan for a full house. When slots run out, the restaurant page offers Find future availability and a walk-in note instead of a dead end.
  • Capture the occasion. The booking form asks what the occasion is, from birthday to business meal, plus a special request a host can act on.
  • Separate reminders from marketing. The communications screen keeps booking updates apart from loyalty and local dining news across push, text and email.

How to use this template

  1. Duplicate the template. Copy the 15 screens into your Whimsical workspace.
  2. Set your booking rules. Note party size limits, booking windows and deposit rules on the picker screen.
  3. Choose time-first or venue-first. Keep the party size and time picker up front for many restaurants, or lead with the venue if your app serves one restaurant group.
  4. Edit the booking form. Add the fields you need, like dietary requests or seating preference, and remove the rest.
  5. Add cancellations. The board has a Manage booking button but no cancel screen, so draw the cancel and modify paths before visual design.

Restaurant reservation app vs waitlist app

A restaurant reservation app books a table for a set time in advance, so it's built on party size, time slots, confirmations and reminders. A waitlist app manages walk-ins on the day, adding diners to a queue and texting them when a table is ready. OpenTable covers both: the restaurant page notes walk-ins, and the text settings list waitlist updates next to booking updates.

Frequently asked questions

  • These screens follow OpenTable's iOS app, one of the longest-running table booking products. Each wireframe was made from a Mobbin screenshot and is shown alongside it, with a link to the screen. What's kept is the structure: how party size, time slots and the booking form fit together. Photos, logos and colors are gone, and Whimsical isn't connected to OpenTable.

  • Yes, with App Wireframe, the open-source agent skill that built this template from OpenTable's screens. Name another reservation app and it pulls the key screens from Mobbin, then lays out each editable Whimsical wireframe next to its screenshot. Already have a restaurant app? Give it your own screenshots instead. It works from an AI agent that has the Whimsical MCP server, plus the Mobbin MCP server for pulling a named app's screens.

  • Design around availability. Ask for party size, date and time early, show bookable time slots on every result, and keep the booking form short. Then design the confirmation, reminders and what happens when a night is full, since an empty result list loses the diner. Sketching it first in a wireframe tool like Whimsical keeps those changes cheap.

  • A party size and time picker should open in context, as a sheet over the current screen, and offer only values a restaurant can take. Apple's guidance on pickers suggests coarser minute intervals, like quarter hours, instead of all 60 minutes. OpenTable's sheet follows that idea: party sizes from 1 to 6, Today, Tomorrow and named days, and times in 30-minute steps.

  • Booking confirmations and reminders are the notifications diners expect, and OpenTable's text reminders let people confirm or cancel without opening the app. Marketing, like local dining events, needs its own opt-in: Apple's notification guidelines say not to send promotional content unless people explicitly agree. This template's communications screen separates the two for push, text and email.