What Mosey does
Choose your food before you arrive, so the kitchen is ready for you
Book a table at a place that offers it and the app asks what you would like to eat. Pick dishes from the menu, add a note for the kitchen and save. You pay on the day, as you always do.
How does choosing your food before you arrive work?
Some places on Mosey let you tell the kitchen what you would like to eat before you get there. After you book a table, the app offers Choose your food in advance. You pick dishes from the place's own menu and save them to your booking.
It is a wish list, not an order. Nothing is charged and nothing is bought. You pay on the day, in the usual way, and the kitchen uses your choice to plan its prep.
How do I choose my food ahead of my booking?
Book a table
Reserve a table in the app. If the place offers food choices, Choose your food in advance appears as soon as you have booked.
Pick your dishes
Open the menu, add the dishes you want and set how many of each. If the place has more than one menu, say which you would like. Add a note about anything the kitchen should know.
Save it to your booking
Save your choice. It sits on your booking in My Bookings, and you can change it until the time the place sets, usually two hours before your table.
Which places offer it?
Not every place does, and the app shows the offer only where it applies. Look for Choose your food in advance straight after you book, and on the booking in My Bookings.
If you cannot see it, the place does not take food choices for that booking. Tell the staff what you would like on the day.
What can I choose?
Whatever is live on the place's menu on Mosey, with its price and the allergen information the place has written for each dish. A dish that is hidden, unavailable or kept for members does not appear.
If a place has not put its menu on Mosey, there is nothing to choose from, and the app says so.
Can I choose for the whole table?
Yes. The choice belongs to the booking, so one person picks for everyone. Add each dish as many times as the table wants, and leave a note for anything the kitchen should know.
Choosing is separate from paying. When the bill comes, you can split it however you like.
What about allergies and dietary needs?
Each dish shows the allergen information the place has declared. Mosey shows what the place says and never tells you a dish is free from something, so check with the staff if an allergy matters.
The dietary notes box is for the kitchen to read before service. Put your allergy there too.
When can I change my choice?
Until the time the place sets, usually two hours before your booking starts, in the place's local time, and the app shows you exactly when. After that the app still shows what you chose, and you tell the staff on the day.
A booking that is cancelled or finished cannot take a choice.
What does the place see?
Your choice appears on your booking at the place, and the kitchen's prep sheet adds the dishes up for the day and for each sitting. The place is sent a notice when you choose or change your dishes.
If you change your mind close to the cutoff, say so when you arrive.
Why choose your food ahead?
Because a table that has already chosen can sit down and talk. The kitchen knows what is coming, the allergy conversation happens before service and nobody waits for a group of eight to agree on the starters.
- No payment up front: it is a wish list for the kitchen.
- Allergen information beside every dish, as the place wrote it.
- Changes allowed until the place's cutoff, usually two hours before your table.
Book a table and choose your food
Choose your food ahead in the Mosey app, at places that offer it. It is free on iPhone and Android.
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Questions about choosing your food ahead
Do I pay when I choose my food?
No. It is a preference for the kitchen and not a payment. Nothing is charged when you save, and you pay on the day in the usual way.
Until when can I change my choice?
Until the time the place sets, usually two hours before your booking starts, in the place's local time. The app tells you the exact moment. After that it still shows what you chose, but you tell the staff on the day if you want something different.
Does every place offer it?
No. The app offers Choose your food in advance only where it applies. If you cannot see it after you book, tell the staff what you would like when you arrive.
Can I choose for the whole table?
Yes. A choice belongs to the booking, so whoever holds the booking picks for everyone. Add each dish as many times as the table wants, up to twenty of any one dish.
What if I have an allergy?
Each dish shows the allergen information the place has written for it. Put your allergy in the dietary notes as well, so the kitchen reads it before service, and check with the staff when you arrive.
What if a dish comes off the menu after I choose it?
Your choice stays on the booking exactly as you saved it, and the place can see it. When you next open the list, a dish that has gone is no longer offered, and the app says it has refreshed the list.
Can I choose food without booking a table?
No. Choosing ahead belongs to a booking. To collect food without sitting down, use order ahead for collection instead.
Can I clear my choice?
Yes. Remove the dishes and save, and your choice is cleared. You can add one again until the cutoff.
More of what Mosey does
Everything Mosey doesBook and order ahead
Book a table, join a queue or catch a cancellation.
Order ahead and collection
Order from your phone and collect when it is ready.
Split the bill
Order together, pay your own share in the app and never chase a friend for money.
Plan a night out
Pick a few places, let your friends vote and book the winner in one tap.
