OpenTable vs SevenRooms vs Woltaro: Which Fits Your Restaurant?

OpenTable is the best-known marketplace: it brings diners but charges for visibility. SevenRooms is a premium CRM and guest-management suite for groups. Woltaro is a commission-free reservations, menu and events platform built for independent Greek and EU restaurants.

The right choice depends on whether you want to buy traffic, manage rich guest profiles, or keep more of every cheque.

OpenTable: roughly €185–€315/month subscription plus €1.00–€2.50 per seated cover, with extra fees for premium placement. A 40-seat restaurant doing 80 covers a night in summer can easily pay €600–€900/month at peak.

SevenRooms: annual contracts typically start around €400–€900/month, often with setup fees. Built for multi-venue groups that need deep CRM and marketing automation.

Woltaro: €0/month for restaurants. No per-cover fee. No setup. Diners pay a small refundable deposit only when the venue chooses to require one.

OpenTable relies on cancellation policies and diner reputation. SevenRooms lets you build guest profiles and target repeat guests. Woltaro uses a refundable commitment deposit collected at booking and returned automatically on arrival.

Deposits outperform policies because the guest has already committed money before the night of service.

OpenTable and SevenRooms are US-first products. They support Europe, but localisation, payment methods and support are not always tuned for Greek restaurants.

Woltaro is registered in Estonia, supports Greek and five other languages, and uses PSD2-compliant payments. That matters for GDPR, distance-selling rules and tourist trust.

Choose OpenTable if you have a large marketing budget and want to fill empty tables through a diner marketplace. Choose SevenRooms if you run a multi-venue group and need enterprise guest management. Choose Woltaro if you want a free, simple, deposit-backed reservation system with menus and events built in.