Planning & productivity

Party seating allocation

Keep parties together while filling tables with a simple transparent heuristic.

Party seating allocation
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First-fit allocates complete parties in source order to the first table with enough free seats. Rejects a party larger than table capacity and exports table totals/spare seats. Up to 1,000 parties. This heuristic is not a guaranteed minimum-table solution and does not model preferences, accessibility, reserved places or venue constraints.

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Worked example

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Project CSV
Party,People
Party A,4
Party B,3
Party C,5
Party D,2
Seats per table
8

Example result

Example result
TablePartyPeopleTable totalSpare seats
1Party A471
1Party B371
2Party C571
2Party D271

First-fit allocation in source order keeps parties together. This heuristic need not minimise tables; it does not model social preferences, accessibility or reserved seats.

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