More than ten reservation platforms were active in Dutch fine dining when we counted in February 2026. Most restaurants use Formitable (now Zenchef), Zenchef, Guestplan or TheFork. The platforms share no protocol, which makes it hard for you to compare availability between restaurants.
Four names in our count, three companies behind them
When we counted in February 2026, about 30% of Dutch fine dining restaurants used Formitable, 25% Zenchef, 16% Guestplan and around 14% TheFork. The rest were on smaller systems such as Tebi, WeReserve, MeetFrank, GoTable, SevenRooms and Tock, which brought the total to more than ten.
Those first two lines describe one company. Formitable and Zenchef announced their merger in January 2023, and Formitable moved to the Zenchef name in early 2024. We still count the Formitable widget separately because it remains on restaurant websites and needs its own connection. Together the two account for just over half of the restaurants.
TheFork is changing hands too. Tripadvisor owned it for years and announced in June 2026 that it would sell to American Express.
Amsterdam alone spreads availability across at least four widgets
Our October 2026 data lists 155 restaurants in Amsterdam: 46 on Tebi, 38 on Zenchef, 26 on Formitable and 17 on Guestplan, with a few smaller systems behind them. Tebi was among the smaller systems in February's national count and is the largest in Amsterdam, so the national split tells you little about which system an Amsterdam restaurant uses.
If you already know where you want to eat, none of this gets in your way: the restaurant's website takes you to the right widget. The trouble starts when you have a fixed evening and no fixed restaurant. You then open one website after another, and any restaurant you skip might be the one with a free table. TheFork comes closest to an overview, although it only shows restaurants signed up to it, and those are a minority: around 14% in our count.
We only have an impression of how restaurants choose
We have not asked restaurants why they picked a system, so this is our own reading. Cost probably plays a part. Zenchef says it charges a monthly or annual subscription with no commission on reservations, although payment fees can apply to prepayments. Some top restaurants also seem to avoid TheFork, while others use it as an extra channel next to their main system. We have no figures for either group.
Each connection is built separately
We know of no standard or open protocol through which these systems share availability. Each one has its own adapter on our site, with its own address and parameters. Even Formitable and Zenchef still run through two adapters on different domains for us. Most of the work lies elsewhere, in establishing which system a restaurant uses and which id it has there.
We think this closed set-up makes sense from the systems' side. A company trying to hold on to restaurants and guests has little reason to hand availability to anyone else.
What we could show live in February 2026
In February 2026 we tracked over 900 Dutch restaurants listed by Michelin and/or Gault&Millau. For about 70% we could show current availability, through Formitable, Zenchef and Guestplan. The other 30% were sent to the restaurant's own website, and TheFork's share sat in that group because the platform blocks automated requests. Since October 2026 we fetch its availability when you click, for one restaurant at a time.
Fine Dining Finder searches by city, date, time and party size across those connections and shows which restaurants have a free table. The link goes to the restaurant's booking system, where you make the reservation yourself. We take no reservations and charge no commission.
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