Guest data, restaurants, and the platform

Smart Dining facilitates reservations, ordering, and CRM workflows. Venues choose what to collect; the platform processes data under venue instructions and under our Privacy Policy for our own operations.

Overview

Smart Dining facilitates reservations, ordering, and CRM workflows. Venues choose what to collect; the platform processes data under venue instructions and under our Privacy Policy for our own operations.

When to use this

Reference when training staff on marketing opt-ins, exporting guest lists, or responding to access or deletion requests.

Step-by-step

  1. Identify whether the request relates to data you control as the restaurant or platform logs held by Smart Dining.
  2. Use in-product tools to honor marketing opt-outs and profile updates where available.
  3. Escalate complex GDPR or U.S. state privacy requests through your legal counsel and our support team with specific identifiers.

Tips & best practices

  • Do not store payment card numbers outside the processor’s approved fields—PCI obligations apply to your organization as well as vendors.

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