TheFork alternative: a fixed price instead of a fee per cover

TheFork's cover model — and what it costs

TheFork is strong in Europe above all as a marketplace: guests discover restaurants in the app and on the web and reserve right there. For you as a business, according to provider information, that means roughly €1.50 to €2 per cover — i.e. per guest at the table — for marketplace reservations, depending on the plan.

For a table of four that quickly adds up to €6 to €8 per reservation. An evening with 100 marketplace guests thus costs €150 to €200 on top — and the better your restaurant runs, the higher the statement, without the software doing any more for you.

VidiReserve turns the model around: a fixed monthly price based on business size, €0 per cover, 0% commission. Your guests reserve directly with you — via your website, your profile and Google Search — and every additional guest counts fully for you.

What matters for your decision is therefore less the base price than the model behind it: do you pay per guest — or once a month? And who owns the guest data in the end? TheFork and VidiReserve answer exactly these two questions in fundamentally different ways.

TheFork and VidiReserve compared

As of July 2026; provider information as published on their websites. All information without guarantee.

Direct reservations instead of marketplace dependency

A marketplace can bring new guests — but it also stands between you and your guest. With VidiReserve the reservation runs directly through your channels: your guest database belongs to you, including reservation history and notes, stored GDPR-compliantly on servers in Germany. Automatic confirmations and reminders reduce your no-shows, and a waitlist fills short-notice gaps.

Add predictability: instead of a statement that grows with every marketplace guest, you pay a fixed monthly price based on business size — from €12.90 for up to 5 online-bookable tables to €99 for unlimited tables. All features are included in every plan, there is no setup fee, and thanks to the price guarantee existing customers keep their price permanently.

What the cover model costs you per year is best calculated yourself: enter your monthly guest numbers into the commission calculator and compare them with your VidiReserve fixed price.

To the commission calculator with your own numbers

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