Cover Flow and Table Turns

Cover Flow and Table Turns live together in the Views section of the app, alongside your other floor views. They give you a time-based, at-a-glance picture of the day so you don't have to open individual reservations or tables to know what's coming next:

• Cover Flow answers "how many guests are arriving, and when?" It's a timeline of reservations, organized by time, showing how many covers are in each one.
• Table Turns answers "which tables are about to free up, and which ones are running late?" It's a timeline of tables, organized by when they're expected to turn over.

Both views share the same layout and controls, so once you're comfortable with one, the other will feel familiar.

Cover Flow lays out every reservation for the day along a horizontal timeline, in 15-minute increments, with major time labels every 30 minutes. Scroll left or right to move through the day — the time labels and totals scroll together with the tiles, so they always stay lined up.

Reading a tile:

• Each tile represents one reservation, and the number in the center is that reservation's cover count.
• If a reservation hasn't been seated yet, its tile sits at its scheduled time. Once it's marked Seated, the tile automatically moves to reflect the actual seated time — so if a table sat 20 minutes late, you'll see the tile shift to match reality rather than the original booking time.
• A green vertical line marks the current time, so you can see at a glance what's happening right now versus what's still ahead. It only appears when you're looking at today.

Slot totals: above each time position, you'll see how many reservations and how many total covers are landing in that slot. This is the fastest way to spot your busiest seating windows before they hit the floor.

Opening a reservation: tap any tile to jump straight into that reservation's details — to check notes, adjust cover count, change status, and so on. When you back out, you'll land right back on Cover Flow at the same date and scroll position, and any changes you made (covers, status, times) will already be reflected in the tile and totals.

When to use it: pre-shift planning (see the whole day's cover flow before doors open), pacing kitchen and host stand staffing around cover-heavy slots, and quickly finding a specific reservation without leaving the timeline view.

Using Table Turns

Table Turns uses the same timeline layout, but it's organized around tables instead of reservations, and it's built to help you manage turnover.

What shows up here: only reservations that have a table assigned. If a reservation doesn't have a table yet, it won't appear in Table Turns (there's nothing to click through to), but it will still show up in Cover Flow.

Reading a tile:

• Each tile shows a table number or label in the center — not the cover count. If a reservation is split across multiple tables, each table gets its own tile, and each one is independently tappable.
• A tile's position reflects when that table is expected to (or did) turn over:
  • For a reservation that's still in progress, the tile sits at the intended leave time — the seated time plus the reservation's original booked duration. If a table was sat early or late, the intended leave time shifts with it, but the original duration stays the same.
  • Once a reservation is marked Finished, its tile moves to the actual finish time.

• Overdue tables turn red. If the current time has passed a table's intended leave time and it hasn't been marked finished yet, the tile flags as overdue — this is your cue to check in on that table. As soon as it's marked finished, it drops out of the overdue state even if it finished later than planned.

Opening a table: tap a tile to open that table directly (not the reservation) — useful for actions like marking a table finished or reassigning it. Backing out returns you to Table Turns at the same date and position, with any changes reflected immediately (for example, moving a reservation to a different table updates the tile's table number right away).

When to use it: spotting overdue tables before a guest has to flag it down for you, planning walk-in or waitlist seating around upcoming turns, and reviewing how long tables are actually holding versus their booked duration.

At the bottom of both views, above your navigation bar, a summary footer shows three running totals for the selected day:

• Total Covers — all covers expected for the day, based on the same inclusion/exclusion rules used elsewhere in the app (e.g., canceled reservations don't count).
• Upcoming — covers from reservations that haven't been seated yet.
• Seated — covers from reservations currently seated or in service.

These totals reflect the entire day, not just what's currently visible on screen, and they update live as covers, statuses, or the date change.