Try OpenTable.com for restaurant reservations
You need a lunch reservation for tomorrow, but it’s now 11 pm, you’re in an unfamiliar town, and you need everyone to get an email with a confirmed time and place. OpenTable.com solves this for me. It is my reservation method of choice because it is online, has plenty of restaurants, and offers lots of information.
You are accessing the restaurant’s actual reservation book. OpenTable
manages the software system that the restaurants use for their reservations. So you will be working within the system itself, geting real time options,
and real time confirmations. No waiting. If your choice isn’t available,
you are given options, or you can simply re-search.
And you can search over 4000 restaurants with numerous choices in the major
business markets. For example, I just now made a dinner reservation by
searching the Point Loma neighborhood in San Diego, asked for 5:45 p.m. for
two, and was given a 5:30 or 6:30 table choice. I choose the earlier and got my confirmation. Done–in real time. More restaurants are being added all the time (you can ask OpenTable to contact your favorite if they aren’t
already on the system.)
The database includes all of the needed information to make an intelligent
choice: price ranges, cuisine, maps, website links, and a joint venture with
Eopinions for even more data.
Did I mention you collect points worth dining bucks? With real time access,
lots of choices, and tons of information, what else could you want?
And that is the question: What else would you want? Check out OpenTable.com and let me know.
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As a restaurant owner I want users to book on my own website not to be moved to another website before they can book. also I don’t like the fact that users can easily view other restaurnts from the open table site when they initially got ther from my website. It seems those who get on the open table scheme are actually helping build the opentable brand and not their own restaurant website!
Yes, but are you taking into account that other seekers may stumble on your restaurant when they were looking at another? Look, if the reservation I want isn’t available online, that’s the restaurant’s own fault. I’m happy to reserve at another viable alternative that shows up. Seems like we win and you win —if you’ve got the tables.
Right, that’s like in the 90s, you wouldn’t link to other competitors and now look at our sidebars, full of links.
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