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195

Contributing venues

4

Sectors tracked

10 Nov

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How venues are performing

Anonymous medians from eligible BookingNinja venues. Every metric has its own minimum sample of 10.

Period
All venues cohort 195 contributing venues Data through 10 Nov 2026
Bookings per venue Median number of qualifying bookings taken per venue in the selected window. Add-on packages count once.
100 +12.4% improved versus the previous 30 days

was 89 the period before

10 310

Typical range · n = 195 venues

Booking growth Share of venues that took more bookings than in the immediately preceding window of the same length, alongside the flat and shrinking shares. The typical range below shows the middle 50% of per-venue growth.
47% of venues growing

median venue: -0.5%

51% shrinking · 2% flat · 47% growing

-33.1% 19.4%

Typical range · n = 180 venues

Average party size Median of each venue's average guests per booking across the selected window.
3.3 0.0 unchanged versus the previous 30 days

was 3.3 the period before

2.8 4

Typical range · n = 174 venues

Cancellation rate Median share of qualifying bookings that were cancelled. Cancelled bookings stay in every denominator.
7.0% -1.0 pp improved versus the previous 30 days

was 8.0% the period before

1.2% 12.5%

Typical range · n = 174 venues

No-show rate Median share of qualifying bookings marked as a no-show. Most venues record zero no-shows in a typical window, so the median sits at or near 0% — the typical range shows the spread.
0.0% 0.0 pp unchanged versus the previous 30 days

was 0.0% the period before

0.0% 1.1%

Typical range · n = 174 venues

Average booking lead time Median of each venue's average gap between a booking being made and the visit itself.
6.6 days +25.9 hr improved versus the previous 30 days

was 5.5 days the period before

3.7 days 14.6 days

Typical range · n = 174 venues

The week ahead

Bookings already in the diary, counted at 5:45 on 11 Nov and compared with the same moment last week — a pace signal, not a forecast: most bookings arrive during the week itself. For scale, the typical venue here finished its last full week on 29.5 bookings. Sector chips apply; the period selector doesn't.

n = 195 venues
Today on the books Confirmed bookings already in the diary for today, counted at 5:45 this morning across venues with at least one booking for the day — venues not trading today are left out. Compared with the same moment a week ago.
4 +33.3% improved versus the same moment last week

was 3 this time last week

2 11

Typical range · n = 97 venues

Week ahead on the books Confirmed bookings already in the diary for the next 7 days, counted at 5:45 this morning and compared with the same moment a week ago. In short-lead sectors most of the week's bookings arrive after this point, so this reads as booking pace, not the week's final size.
7 +40.0% improved versus the same moment last week

was 5 this time last week

1 19.5

Typical range · n = 195 venues

Today on the books

All venues 4
Board Game Café 9.5
Restaurant 3
Soft Play 5.5

Week ahead on the books

All venues 7
Board Game Café 22.5
Pub & Bar 14
Restaurant 4
Soft Play 11

Bookings per venue — trend

Median (solid line), typical range (band) and the preceding window's median (dashed) across the last 60 nightly snapshots.

Latest median: 100
12 Sep 10 Nov

The median moved from 104 on 12 Sep to 100 on 10 Nov.

Daily snapshot history

Drill into the latest 30 days, with week and month comparisons.

View 30 days

Each row is the 30-day rolling benchmark ending on that date. Comparisons use the snapshot exactly 7 and 30 days earlier.

Last 30 days of Bookings per venue benchmark snapshots, compared with 7 and 30 days earlier.
Date Median Typical range Vs 7 days earlier Vs 30 days earlier Sample
Tue 100 10–310 0.0% from 100 +12.4% from 89 195
Mon 100.5 10–305.8 +0.5% from 100 +18.9% from 84.5 196
Sun 103.5 10.5–307 -4.2% from 108 +27.8% from 81 196
Sat 107 10.8–303.5 +0.5% from 106.5 +31.3% from 81.5 196
Fri 103 10.5–296.5 +5.1% from 98 +25.6% from 82 195
Thu 100.5 13.3–305.3 +8.1% from 93 +22.6% from 82 194
Wed 102 14–315 +15.9% from 88 +23.6% from 82.5 195
Tue 100 14.5–316 +17.0% from 85.5 +20.5% from 83 195
Mon 100 15–311.5 +14.9% from 87 +12.4% from 89 195
Sun 108 14–302 +20.7% from 89.5 +28.6% from 84 196
Sat 106.5 15–319 +24.6% from 85.5 +26.8% from 84 196
Fri 98 14–306 +14.0% from 86 +16.7% from 84 197
Thu 93 12–298 0.0% from 93 +12.0% from 83 197
Wed 88 8–285 -6.4% from 94 +1.1% from 87 200
Tue 85.5 8–280 -5.0% from 90 -3.9% from 89 200
Mon 87 9–277 -1.1% from 88 -4.4% from 91 199
Sun 89.5 8.8–265 +0.6% from 89 +0.6% from 89 200
Sat 85.5 9–265.5 -3.9% from 89 -5.0% from 90 200
Fri 86 9.8–252 +3.0% from 83.5 -6.5% from 92 200
Thu 93 10–238 +13.4% from 82 +2.2% from 91 198
Wed 94 10–237 +18.2% from 79.5 +1.1% from 93 197
Tue 90 10–229 +14.6% from 78.5 -5.3% from 95 197
Mon 88 10–235.8 +6.0% from 83 -8.8% from 96.5 198
Sun 89 12–246 0.0% from 89 -9.2% from 98 197
Sat 89 12.5–240.8 +5.3% from 84.5 -6.8% from 95.5 196
Fri 83.5 11.8–236.5 +3.1% from 81 -10.2% from 93 196
Thu 82 11.5–229.5 +0.6% from 81.5 -15.5% from 97 195
Wed 79.5 10–223.3 -3.0% from 82 -22.1% from 102 196
Tue 78.5 10.8–222.3 -4.3% from 82 -23.8% from 103 196
Mon 83 10.8–224 +0.6% from 82.5 -20.2% from 104 196

A dash means no privacy-safe snapshot was published for that exact comparison date.

How sectors compare

Highlighted: All venues

Bookings per venue

All venues 100
Board Game Café 251.5
Pub & Bar 211
Restaurant 41.5
Soft Play 350

Booking growth

All venues -0.5%
Board Game Café 15.6%
Pub & Bar -8.8%
Restaurant -13.7%
Soft Play 21.0%

Average party size

All venues 3.3
Board Game Café 3.3
Pub & Bar 4
Restaurant 3.3
Soft Play 3.1

Cancellation rate

All venues 7.0%
Board Game Café 7.3%
Pub & Bar 7.1%
Restaurant 10.0%
Soft Play 1.4%

No-show rate

All venues 0.0%
Board Game Café 0.6%
Pub & Bar 0.4%
Restaurant 0.0%
Soft Play 0.2%

Average booking lead time

All venues 6.6 days
Board Game Café 10.9 days
Pub & Bar 15.0 days
Restaurant 6.7 days
Soft Play 4.0 days

All the numbers

Metric Median Typical range Previously Vs previous period Sample
Bookings per venue 100 10–310 89 +12.4% 195
Booking growth 47% -33.1%–19.4% — — 180
Average party size 3.3 2.8–4 3.3 0.0 174
Cancellation rate 7.0% 1.2%–12.5% 8.0% -1.0 pp 174
No-show rate 0.0% 0.0%–1.1% 0.0% 0.0 pp 174
Average booking lead time 6.6 days 3.7 days–14.6 days 5.5 days +25.9 hr 174
“Typical range” is the 25th–75th percentile. Booking growth compares the selected window with the immediately preceding window of the same length. On the sparklines, the solid line is this window's median across nightly snapshots and the dashed line is the preceding window's.
The Metrics

Reading the Numbers

Every number on the dashboard is a median across venues, shown with its typical range. Here is exactly what each one measures.

Bookings per venue

Qualifying bookings taken per venue in the selected window. Add-on packages count once, and cancelled or no-show bookings still count as demand. Higher is better.

Booking growth

Each venue's change in booking volume versus the immediately preceding window of the same length. Venues with nothing to compare against are left out. Higher is better.

Average party size

The average number of guests on each booking, then the median of those venue averages. A useful covers-per-table pulse for your sector. Higher usually means bigger tables.

Cancellation rate

The share of qualifying bookings that were cancelled. Every qualifying booking stays in the denominator, so the rate is comparable between venues. Lower is better.

No-show rate

The share of qualifying bookings where the guest simply never arrived. The metric deposits and card capture were built to push down. Lower is better.

Booking lead time

How far ahead guests book: the gap between a booking being made and the visit itself, averaged per venue. Longer lead times mean fuller forward diaries.

Today on the books

Confirmed bookings already in the diary for the day ahead, counted at 5:45 each morning and compared with the same moment a week earlier.

Week ahead on the books

The forward diary for the next 7 days as it stands each morning. A live pace signal: is the coming week filling faster or slower than it was this time last week?

Behind the numbers

How the Pipeline Works

From raw bookings to a public benchmark, with privacy enforced at every step.

1

Nightly capture

One scheduled job reads complete booking dates ending yesterday and rebuilds every cohort in a single pass.

2

Privacy floor of 10

Every metric in every sector needs usable data from at least 10 venues, or it is suppressed entirely.

3

Medians, not totals

Only medians and the middle 50% range are published — never individual values or platform totals.

4

Published & compared

The public dashboard updates, and contributing venues get a private percentile inside Analytics.

Methodology

Useful context, with privacy built in

The dashboard is refreshed nightly from complete booking dates ending yesterday. Each period is compared with the immediately preceding window of the same length.

Who is included

Active, contributing venues with at least one qualifying parent booking across the selected and preceding periods.

What is excluded

Temporary, unpaid, incomplete and test bookings, plus child rows created by add-on booking packages.

Minimum cohort

Every metric needs at least 10 usable venues. A metric or sector disappears when it falls below that threshold.

What stays private

We publish medians and 25th–75th percentile ranges only—never venue names, guest data, revenue or platform-wide booking totals.

Venue control

BookingNinja customers can opt out in Data & Privacy settings. Opting out removes the venue from the next snapshot and locks its personalised comparison.

Your venue · Restaurant · 30 days

Bookings 112 vs median 86.5

Higher than 72% of comparable venues

Cancellation rate 3.2% vs median 5.9%

Lower than 81% of comparable venues

Average party size 4.6 vs median 3.8

Larger than 64% of comparable venues

Inside Analytics
For BookingNinja venues

See Exactly Where
Your Venue Ranks

The public page shows the market. Contributing BookingNinja venues also get a private benchmark panel inside Analytics with their own value beside the sector median — and a tie-aware percentile that says exactly where they sit.

Fixed to your sector
Your venue is compared against its own category only, so a café is never measured against a wedding venue.
Private to you
The percentile appears only inside your own Analytics. No other venue can see your numbers, and you cannot see theirs.
Opt out any time
One switch in Data & Privacy removes your venue from the next snapshot and every future one.
FAQ

Venue Benchmark Questions

Where does the benchmark data come from?
It comes from eligible BookingNinja venues that have anonymous benchmark contribution enabled. Snapshots use complete booking dates ending yesterday and are refreshed once a day.
Can I identify an individual venue?
No. The public dashboard shows only cohort medians and the middle 50% range. It never publishes venue names, guest details, revenue or total booking volumes across the platform.
What does “typical range” mean?
It is the 25th to 75th percentile — the middle 50% of venues. A quarter of venues sit below the range and a quarter above it, so it shows the realistic spread rather than the extremes.
Why are some venue types or metrics unavailable?
Privacy and reliability come first. Every metric needs usable data from at least 10 eligible venues in that exact sector and period. Anything below the threshold is suppressed.
How is booking growth calculated?
Growth compares a venue’s qualifying booking count in the selected 7, 30 or 90-day window with the immediately preceding window of the same length. Venues with no bookings in the preceding window are omitted from that metric.
Which bookings count?
The benchmark follows the same operational definitions as BookingNinja Analytics, with one extra rule: test and demo bookings are excluded entirely. Temporary, unpaid and incomplete rows are excluded, as are add-on child rows. Cancellation and no-show rates use all remaining qualifying bookings as their denominator.
What does “on the books” mean?
The week-ahead panel counts confirmed bookings already in the diary for today and the next 7 days, measured at 5:45 each morning. Cancelled bookings are excluded, and the comparison is with the diary as it stood at the same moment one week earlier — pace against pace.
How often is the data refreshed?
Every night. Each snapshot covers complete booking dates ending yesterday, and the trend chart records one point per nightly snapshot. If an update is ever delayed by more than 48 hours the dashboard says so.
Why might these numbers differ from my own reports?
The dashboard shows the median venue in a sector, not your venue. Your own Analytics reports your actual totals; the benchmark tells you whether those totals are typical. Contributing venues can see the exact comparison in their private panel.
Can BookingNinja customers compare their own venue?
Yes. Contributing customers see a private benchmark panel in Analytics, fixed to their venue’s own category. It shows the venue value, cohort median, typical range and tie-aware whole-number percentile.
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