# HappyChef Datahub — gender_booking_clock
# visit dates 1 January – 30 September 2026 · 25019 datapoints · 30 Belgian restaurants
# The name on the booking is the first name of the guest who made it (or gave it to the restaurant), not of everyone at the table. Gender is read from that first name with a public first-name dictionary plus a list of common Flemish and French-Belgian names; names used for both men and women (Kim, Dominique, Chris, Sam, …), nicknames, family names and empty or encrypted names are left out. Hour of the day (Belgian time) at which online bookings were made, share per two- or three-hour band. Each figure is computed per restaurant for women and for men separately, then averaged with equal weight per restaurant, so the comparison is always made inside the same restaurants. Only restaurants with at least 30 bookings by women and 30 by men count.
category,men,women
00–06,0.008,0.0081
06–09,0.0543,0.0565
09–12,0.1826,0.1788
12–14,0.1322,0.1384
14–17,0.1945,0.1841
17–19,0.1681,0.1586
19–21,0.1473,0.148
21–24,0.113,0.1275