--- title: "Free Private Dining Inquiry Form Template | formformform" description: "Free Private Dining Inquiry Form template. Capture event type, guest count, seated or standing format, room preference, menu and service style, drinks, AV…" url: "https://www.formformform.com/templates/private-dining-inquiry-form" type: static generatedAt: "2026-08-23T18:56:58.727Z" --- [Templates](https://www.formformform.com/form-templates)/[Food & Restaurant Forms](https://www.formformform.com/form-templates/food-forms) # Private Dining Inquiry Form Template An enquiry form for a restaurant's own private room, semi-private area or exclusive hire — not for catering delivered to someone else's venue. It separates the answers that actually determine a private dining quote: seated or standing, menu style and service format asked apart from each other, exclusivity asked apart from room choice, real arrival and finish times rather than a vague time of day, drinks package interest, AV, accessibility, and a budget per head band you set to your own price points. [Use this template](https://app.formformform.com/templates/private-dining-inquiry-form/use) Last updated 21 August 2026 ## Fields in this template - Your Name · required - Email Address · required - Phone Number · required - Company or Organisation - Type of Event · required Business dinner · Client entertaining · Board or leadership dinner · Team or department celebration · Christmas or seasonal party · Product launch or press event · Training or away day with lunch · Wedding-related event · Milestone birthday · Anniversary · Engagement party · Christening or naming celebration · Wake or memorial · Charity or fundraising dinner · Supper club or private hire · Other - Expected Guest Count · required - Format · required Seated meal · Standing reception · Standing drinks reception, then a seated meal · Seated meal, then a standing reception · Not sure — advise us - Space Preference · required Private dining room · Semi-private area within the restaurant · Whole restaurant, exclusive hire · Outdoor or terrace space · No preference — show us what fits - Do you need exclusive use of the space for the whole booking? · required Yes — exclusive use is essential · Preferred, but not essential · No — sharing the room or the restaurant is fine - Preferred Date · required - Alternative Dates - Arrival Time · required - Finish Time · required - Menu Style · required Set menu, one choice for everyone · Set menu with a choice per course, pre-ordered · Tasting menu · Family-style sharing · Canapes · Buffet or grazing · Advise us - Service Format · required Full table service · Sharing plates brought to the table · Buffet or station service · Passed canapes and roaming service · A mix — noted below - Drinks — tick anything you are interested in A drinks package priced per head · Wine pairing with the menu · A welcome drink on arrival · Cash bar — guests pay for their own · A bar tab we settle at the end · Corkage — we would like to bring our own wine · No drinks beyond what comes with the menu - Budget Per Head, Excluding Drinks Under 40 per head · 40 to 60 per head · 60 to 80 per head · 80 to 120 per head · 120 to 180 per head · 180 to 250 per head · Over 250 per head · Not sure yet — advise us - AV and Presentation Needs Screen or projector · Microphone · Sound system for music · Ability to play a video with sound · Laptop connection (HDMI or USB-C) · Wi-Fi for guests · Space to set up a display or banner · A lectern or speaking position · None - Accessibility Needs - Dietary Requirements and Allergies - Anything Else About the Event? - Link to a Brief, Run Sheet or Inspiration - How soon do you need a proposal? · required Within 24 hours · Within 2 to 3 days · Within a week · No rush — we are planning well ahead ## Who uses this template Restaurants with a private dining room · Restaurant events and private hire managers · Chef's table and tasting menu rooms · Wine bars and cellar rooms taking private bookings · Gastropubs with an upstairs function room · Hotel restaurants selling private dining separately from banqueting · Members clubs with a dining room available for hire · Small venues offering whole-venue exclusive hire ## About this template Private dining sits between a restaurant booking and an event. The guest is buying a room, a window of time, a menu and a level of service all at once, and a quote cannot be written until all four are known. This form asks for exactly those, in the order a private dining manager needs them, and stops short of anything that belongs in a proposal rather than an enquiry. Several questions are split apart on purpose. Format — seated, standing, or a reception that becomes a dinner — is separate from guest count, because a room's seated capacity and standing capacity are rarely the same number and the count alone tells you nothing. Exclusivity is separate from space preference, because plenty of guests want the private room without needing the restaurant closed, and that difference is usually the largest single line in the price. Menu style and service format are separate because they combine freely: a sharing menu can be served at the table or from a station, and it is the service format that drives your staffing. And arrival and finish times are asked as real times rather than as a lunch-or-dinner dropdown, since private dining is priced and staffed against a window. What the form does not do is take money. Drinks packages, bar tabs, deposits and minimum spends all appear here as things to quote for, never as a transaction — formformform has no payment field of any kind, so no form built here can hold a card or charge a deposit. Record the interest, send the proposal, and settle the money through your own systems. The same discipline applies to the AV checklist and the accessibility field: delete any AV option you cannot actually supply, because a guest who ticks a projector you do not own has effectively been told yes by the form, and answer the accessibility question specifically, since a private room up a narrow staircase is often the fact that decides whether the booking can happen at all. ## 12 form ideas you can build with this template ### Corporate Board Dinner Enquiry Take a small, high-value booking where exclusivity, a private room and a hard finish time matter more than the guest count. ### Christmas Private Room Enquiry Handle festive private room enquiries where the date is fixed, the budget per head is set by an office, and every venue in town is being asked the same week. ### Product Launch Reception Enquiry Capture a standing reception with canapes, AV for a presentation and space for a banner — the combination a reservation form has nowhere to record. ### Wedding Rehearsal Dinner Enquiry Take a seated private dinner the night before a wedding, with a set menu and a firm finish time. ### Milestone Birthday Private Room Enquiry Book a private room for a significant birthday with a drinks package, a cake and a reception before the meal. ### Charity Fundraising Dinner Enquiry Take an enquiry where a microphone, a lectern and a running order for speeches matter as much as the menu. ### Whole Venue Exclusive Hire Enquiry Qualify a buyout enquiry properly by asking about exclusivity, the time window and budget per head before quoting a closure. ### Chef's Table Booking Enquiry Take a tasting menu booking at a chef's table where menu style, wine pairing and a fixed guest count are the whole conversation. ### Away Day Lunch Enquiry Capture a training day booking that needs a screen, Wi-Fi and a room available across a working day rather than a single sitting. ### Press or Media Dinner Enquiry Take an agency enquiry where the run sheet already exists, the budget is set and the deadline for a proposal is tomorrow. ### Memorial Reception Enquiry Give a family a way to enquire about a private room for a wake, with accessibility, a quiet space and a standing format asked plainly. ### Supper Club Private Hire Enquiry Take a whole-venue hire enquiry for a one-sitting supper club where the menu is fixed and exclusivity is the point. ## What's included Seated, standing, or a reception moving into a dinner — asked as a format question, because room capacity differs for each Exclusivity asked separately from room choice, since it is the answer that most often changes the price Menu style and service format kept apart, because they combine freely and drive different parts of the quote Real arrival and finish times rather than a lunch or dinner dropdown, since private dining is priced against a window Drinks package interest captured for quoting, with no payment step of any kind An AV checklist you trim to what you can actually supply Accessibility asked as an open field, which matters when the room is up a staircase Free to use with unlimited submissions ## How to create a private dining inquiry form 1. 1 Click Use this template to load the private dining inquiry form into your free formformform account. 2. 2 Replace the space preference options with the real names of your rooms, and add each room's seated and standing capacity to the field description. 3. 3 Set your currency and move the budget-per-head bands to your actual price points. Bands that do not match your menus make every answer useless. 4. 4 Trim the AV checklist to what you genuinely have, and delete the rest — leaving an option on the list is a promise. 5. 5 Edit the event type list to the bookings you take, and remove any you do not. 6. 6 Add an Upload field in the editor if you want guests to attach a run sheet or a brief; the template ships a link field instead, and formformform supports uploads on any form. 7. 7 Publish and link it from your private dining page, and answer the proposal-urgency field honestly by triaging your inbox against it. ## Best practices for your private dining inquiry form Reply with a room, a date hold and an indicative price per head. A private dining enquiry answered with questions instead of options usually goes to whoever answered with options. Read format and guest count together before you suggest a room. Thirty seated and thirty standing are different bookings and often different rooms. Quote against the finish time, not the arrival time. The window is what you are staffing, and a guest who says 23:00 and means 01:00 will cost you the difference. Never treat the drinks checklist as a commitment. It records interest so you can quote; the money moves through your own payment systems after the proposal is accepted. Answer the accessibility question in your reply explicitly, including anything you cannot do. A guest finding out about the staircase on the night is a far worse outcome than losing the enquiry. Keep exclusivity as its own question. Bundling it into room choice is how venues end up quoting a buyout to someone who only wanted the small room. Confirm severe allergies by phone before the event. The dietary field is for planning at enquiry stage, not for service on the night. Use the proposal-urgency answer to triage. Some enquiries are eight months out and some are for next Thursday, and answering them in arrival order serves neither. ## Frequently asked questions Is this private dining inquiry template free? Yes. Use it, customise it, and take unlimited enquiries at no cost, with no per-enquiry fees. How is this different from a catering inquiry form? A catering enquiry sends food out to somebody else's venue, so it asks for a venue address, rentals like tables and linens, and whether alcohol service needs to be brought in. This form is for an event held in your own restaurant: it asks which of your rooms, whether exclusive use is needed, what the seated or standing format is, and what your AV can do — none of which a catering form asks, and all of which decide a private dining quote. How is this different from a general event venue inquiry form? A general venue enquiry covers hotels, conference centres and standalone venues, so it works at the level of space type and total budget. This one is written for a restaurant selling its own dining room: menu style and service format are asked separately, budget is per head rather than total, drinks packages and corkage appear, and the timing questions are real arrival and finish times because that window is what gets staffed. Can the form take a deposit or hold a card? No. formformform has no payment field of any kind, so no form built here can charge or hold anything. Drinks packages, minimum spends and deposits are captured here only as things to quote for; the money moves through your own terminal, payment link or booking system after the proposal is accepted. Why are menu style and service format two questions? Because they combine freely and they affect different parts of your quote. A sharing menu can be brought to the table or served from a station; the menu drives the kitchen cost and the service format drives the staffing, so merging them loses one of the two. Should I use my real room names in the space preference field? Yes, as soon as you clone the form. Guests choose far more confidently from real room names with capacities attached than from generic categories, and you get a usable answer instead of no preference. Can guests attach a run sheet or a brief? The template ships a link field for that, since generated templates cannot include an upload field. If you would rather guests attached a document, add an Upload field to your copy in the editor — formformform supports file uploads on any form. What if the enquiry is really just a big table booking? Use a large party reservation request for that instead. 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