How to Open or Close Your Restaurant

Overview

You can control whether your restaurant is accepting orders at any time using the Restaurant Open toggle on your Dashboard. This is useful for managing unexpected closures, busy periods, or end-of-day shutdowns without changing your regular opening hours.

How to Get There

Go to your restaurant's Dashboard. The Restaurant Open button is in the top-right corner of the page.

Changing Your Restaurant Status

Click the Restaurant Open button (or whichever status is currently showing).
A dropdown menu will appear with three options:
- Open — Your restaurant is live and accepting orders from customers. Select this to reopen your restaurant.
- Close manually — Closes your restaurant immediately. Customers will not be able to place orders until you manually set it back to Open.
- Until next hours — Temporarily closes your restaurant. It will reopen automatically when your next scheduled opening time begins.
Click your preferred option. The button label will update to reflect the new status.

Tip: Use Until next hours for quick breaks or if you're temporarily overwhelmed with orders. Use Close manually if you need to stay closed until you decide to reopen.

Note: This toggle controls real-time availability and is separate from your weekly opening hours schedule, which you can set under Settings → Delivery / Takeaway / Dine-in → Opening hours.

Updated on: 17/09/2026

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