A restaurant service management system, for facilitating efficient communication between a customer and service staff in an establishment such as a restaurant. The service staff is equipped with a communication station having a display, and each customer is equipped with a signaling device in communication with the communication station. The signaling device has a service button, numbered pushbuttons, a red colored LED, and a green colored LED. To request service, the customer presses the service button, signaling the communication station, and causing the red colored LED to flash. When the alert is acknowledged by service staff at the communication station, an acknowledgment signal extinguishes the red colored LED and causes the green LED to illuminate. When service personnel reach the customer, a code is entered using the numbered pushbuttons, the green LED is extinguished, and the system is reset.