A Seating Chart That Explains Its Splits

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The tool accepts one guest per line, with an optional comma-delimited group label, then applies a largest-party-first packing method to fixed-size tables. It keeps groups together when the arithmetic permits and identifies unavoidable splits instead of hiding them. The page says the same list produces the same chart each time, and gives a concrete example in which 200 guests arranged as forty families of five fill twenty ten-seat tables without splitting a family.