We ran a restaurant. Coperti is what we were missing.

After fifteen years running a restaurant, you know the scene by heart: a book full of crossings-out, the phone ringing in the middle of service, tables turned away that sit empty by the end of the night — and those empty tables show up in the numbers at month's end.

We tried everything to manage reservations, the floor and turnover better: paper, spreadsheets, one piece of software after another. They were built for big chains, cost too much, or nobody had designed them for people working on their feet between tables. None did the one thing we actually needed: make the most of every cover without rushing guests.

At some point we stopped looking for the perfect software and decided to build it. We started a company and a development team, and we steered it with the one thing other systems had always lacked: the eye of people who'd lived those problems every night. Coperti was born that way — first for our own restaurant, then for colleagues who asked. Today it does what we wish we'd had back then: reservations, a floor plan, and AI that optimises tables and turnover, service after service.