For restaurants
We scan private dining rooms and event spaces with a LiDAR camera. The walkthrough goes on your events page, and the floor plan that comes with it is measured off the room — so “will forty fit” has an answer instead of an estimate.
No room has been scanned yet and the camera has not been bought. Here is the whole state of things before the pitch.
Read this before the rest of the page.
No restaurant has been scanned yet. There is no example tour on this page, no room to walk and no manager to ring for a reference, because there is not one to give you. The camera is being bought against the first bookings, and the first rooms will be in and around St. Louis.
Every claim below is labelled Built or Opening so you can tell which one you are reading. On this page nearly everything is Opening. What is built is the company doing it: Celestial Celebrations LLC, a working St. Louis business that already runs and hosts software, which is why keeping a tour online is not the risky part of this.
Who actually books the room
Almost nobody who books a private dining room comes to look at it first. It is an executive assistant setting up a client dinner, a rep organising a team of twelve, an HR coordinator with a holiday party to place, a son arranging a lunch after a funeral. They have an afternoon, a headcount and a budget, and they are deciding from whatever is on your events page.
What they need to know is not what your food looks like. It is whether the room holds their number, whether it feels private or is really just the back half of the dining room, whether there is a wall for a screen, and whether their guests can get to it without walking through service.
A walkthrough answers all four in under a minute, without an email thread, and without your manager being pulled off the floor to describe a room down the phone.
That is an argument, not a measurement. We have no booking figures to quote, because we have no restaurants yet.
Hosted on our account, with a link you can paste into an enquiry reply and an embed for your own site. You are not handed a file and left to work out where it goes.
Opening
Real dimensions, taken off the walls. Which means capacity questions — forty at rounds, thirty at one long table, a buffet line down the side — get answered from a drawing rather than from memory.
Opening
Private rooms are usually the dimmest, narrowest, most awkwardly lit part of a restaurant, and they photograph accordingly. A walkthrough lets someone move through the room instead of judging it from one bad angle.
Opening
The private room, the mezzanine, the patio, the whole-restaurant buyout. Extra spaces captured on the same visit cost less than the first, because the travel and the setup are already paid for.
Opening
Between services or before open, with the room empty and set the way you let it most often. No guests in the capture and no covers lost to it.
Opening
Unlike a listing or a wedding venue tour, your room is let over and over. The capture is a one-off against every enquiry that room takes for as long as it exists.
Opening
There is no turnaround time on this page. Nothing has been delivered yet, so a number of days would be a guess — you get a date in writing before a visit is booked, and it will be one we can keep.
What a phone photo cannot do
That is what most private dining pages have, and it is not anybody’s fault — the room is only empty at odd hours, the light is warm and low, and a phone flattens it into something that looks smaller and browner than it is.
The specific thing a photograph cannot carry is scale, and scale is the entire question a booker is asking. Two pictures cannot tell them whether their fourteen fit comfortably or whether the servers will be squeezing past chairs all night. A room you can move through, with a dimensioned plan next to it, can.
The second thing it cannot carry is how the room connects: which door your guests arrive by, whether it closes, and what is on the other side of it. That is usually the difference between “private room” and “private enough for what we are announcing”.
Pricing
A one-off capture fee, banded by the size of the room. A twenty-cover private room and a whole-restaurant buyout are not the same morning’s work.
The mezzanine, the patio, the bar. Priced lower per space than the first, because the travel and the setup are already paid for.
A monthly fee that keeps the tour online and embedded on your events page. Not a subscription you need in order to keep the floor plan — one that keeps the walkthrough working where you use it.
There is no figure on this page yet, and that is deliberate. These bands have never been quoted to a real restaurant. Printing a number now would mean printing a guess, and the first one quoted something different would rightly hold this page against us.
So you get a written quote against your own rooms — how many, roughly how big, how far the drive is — before anybody books a morning. The first restaurants keep the rate they are quoted for as long as their hosting stays active.
The first restaurants
Stated plainly: you would be booking a service with no portfolio, from somebody who has scanned no rooms, on the strength of an argument rather than a result.
In exchange, the first restaurants get a founding rate held for the life of their hosting, a morning scheduled with room around it rather than squeezed between two other jobs, and the tour to look at before it goes anywhere near your website.
If that is not a trade you want to make, the honest advice is to wait until there are rooms on this page to walk — and there will be.
Celestial Cartography is run by Celestial Celebrations LLC in St. Louis, Missouri. The first scans will be within driving distance of St. Louis.
Enquire
Email goes to a person — the owner — not to a queue. It helps to include the restaurant name and city, which rooms you would want captured, the seated capacity of the largest, and the time of day that room is reliably empty.
If the room is only ever free between two and four, say so — that is a scheduling fact, not an obstacle.