One system that carries a private event from inquiry to event day — proposal, e-signature, deposit, BEO — across every location, with group-level menus, pricing, and reporting that single-location tools cannot provide. Excellent is built for exactly this: high-end US restaurant groups, AI-native, with staff training on the same platform.
Kitchen viewAlso renders for Guest · Floor · Internal
Product Launch — Northwind
Run of show
Menu
110 covers · 6 vegetarian · 2 shellfish allergy · 1 gluten-free
Signed by the host — this version is locked
The bar for a restaurant group, in seven capabilities. If a tool misses one, the gap becomes a spreadsheet, a second system, or a double-booked Saturday.
01One thread from inquiry to event day
Founders Dinner — Proposal
A five-course dinner for 70 guests in the Terrace Room, yours for the evening, on Thursday 16 July from 7:00 to 11:00 PM.
A 30% deposit confirms your date. Final guest count is due 14 days before the event.
Awaiting your signature
03A calendar that cannot double-book
05Guest-facing surfaces that feel like your rooms
Founders Dinner — Hale
Thu 16 July · 7:00 – 11:00 PM · Lumière Scottsdale
Your documents
Payments
The details
These are the details on your request as it stands today. The guest count is the number you asked for — nothing is confirmed until your booking is. Tell your coordinator if anything should change.
04Documents that lock
Sign
Founders Dinner — Proposal
Reserve your date
Pay deposit · $4,200.00Payments are processed securely by Stripe — card details never touch this page.4f5b3a76588ca86d…Every signature above is bound to this exact fingerprint of the document content — a change to the content would change the fingerprint.4f5b3a76588ca86de0badc65a1566971a0141843ace12481a23acc9ba3bede3906Cross-location reporting
Ahead of paceProjected to finish at $694,187 by invoice date. That's 107% of your $650,000 goal.
This period $454,500 · Goal $650,000By location
A single-location tool, multiplied, is not group software.
Seven capabilities are the bar. What decides whether a group clears them is the data model underneath: menus that fork instead of duplicate, a calendar that refuses a conflict instead of warning about it, and one record for events and for the people trained to run them.
Create your group’s workspace and check each capability against it. Free to build — one plan, everything included, when you go live.
Most event software is built for one venue, or for banquet halls in general. Excellent is built for high-end restaurant groups running private dining across several locations: menus and pricing set once for the group and tailored per concept or location, AI that drafts proposals and BEOs for a person to approve, and staff training on the same platform as events — one system, one record, every location.
Concept-to-location inheritance is the data model, not a parent-account overlay. Set a menu or price once, fork it for a brand or a single location, and always see where a value came from.
AI writes the first draft of proposals, BEOs, and replies; your real menus, spaces, and prices fill in exactly. A person approves everything before a guest sees it.
The same people, locations, and menus power private events and staff training — courses, graded assessments, version-pinned certifications. One login instead of an events tool plus a separate LMS.
Group-native, not retrofitted
$145.00per guest, set at the group
Events and training, one platform
Side by side with the tools most groups are choosing between — including, stated plainly, where each of them is the better choice.
Tripleseat is the incumbent event-management platform for restaurants, hotels, and venues, with the category's largest install base and partner ecosystem.
Read the comparisonPerfect Venue is a modern, affordable event-management tool with transparent published pricing and a free tier, built venue-first for independent operators.
Read the comparisonEvent Temple is a modern, hotel-first sales and catering platform — CRM, function diary, and group room blocks — with the strongest multi-property story in hotel events software, proven at 60-hotel scale.
Read the comparisonPlanning Pod is a generalist venue-and-event management platform — around forty tools in one, from CRM and booking calendar to BEOs, floorplans, and invoicing — with flat event-volume pricing and unlimited users.
Read the comparisonWhat comes up before a group shortlists anything: what the category is, how group software differs from a single-location tool, what to look for, and what it costs.
Software that runs a restaurant's private events business end to end: capturing inquiries, drafting proposals, e-signing contracts, collecting deposits, generating BEOs for the kitchen and floor, and reporting on the pipeline. For restaurant groups, it also has to manage this across several locations and concepts at once, with shared menus, pricing, and rollup reporting.
The data model. A single-location tool multiplied across locations means duplicated menus, duplicated templates, and per-location configuration that drifts apart. Group-native software inherits: menus and pricing are set once at the group level, forked per concept or location where needed, and every value shows where it came from. Reporting rolls up across locations instead of living in separate accounts.
Seven things: one thread from inquiry to event day; group-to-location menu and pricing inheritance; a calendar that hard-blocks double-bookings; immutable signed documents and locked payment records; guest-facing surfaces worthy of the room; cross-location reporting with pace and goals; and staff training on the same platform, so events and training share one record of people, locations, and menus.
Yes. Excellent Craft runs courses, graded assessments, version-pinned certifications, and printable compliance evidence packs on the same platform as events — the same people, locations, and menus, one login.
Most of the category is quote-based. The incumbent prices per location with paid add-ons for floorplans and advanced reporting, plus a documented platform fee on payments; some single-location tools publish transparent flat pricing. Excellent publishes its price: $360 per location per month, everything included — floorplans, pace reporting, staff training, every user — with no setup fees and never a percentage of sales. Total cost of any tool is the subscription plus add-ons, payment fees, a separate training tool if events software does not include one, and the admin hours spent re-keying between systems. The Tripleseat cost calculator adds this up with your own numbers.
Create your group’s workspace and hold this page’s checklist against it. Free to build — one plan, everything included, when you go live.