3 ms·
Oh if this isn't true. Due to valentine's day I ran into this about a dozen times before just going to the local "nice restaurant".
by elblanco 17y ago
Oh if this isn't true. Due to valentine's day I ran into this about a dozen times before just going to the local "nice restaurant".
- prawn 17y agoAn idea of mine is for calendar-specific events. e.g., for Valentine's Day, I often look to see which decent restaurants are running special events like degustations. For Melbourne Cup, I want to know who's doing booking-only and who's got a free for all. For NYE, people want to know if there's a specific cover charge or event when they're trying to pick a place to go. Right now, if you want to book a special event for Valentine's Day, you have to go from site to site, hoping restaurants have updated recently (fat chance), and then contact them to see if they have a booking. Would be so much simpler to pick the event, the locale and then see a list of options including whether they were already booked out. With a database of restaurant phone numbers, the polling of data could be automated. Robo-dial a restaurant at a less-than-busy time with "This is Service X. Are you doing anything special for Event Name? If the usual, press 1. If a special menu, press 2. If you never want us to pester you again, press 0." Then receive and transcribe the eventual descriptions. Could have an automated call handling capacity too. "Are you booked out for Event Name? Press 1 for no, or press 2 if you are booked out. Hit 0 to stop these messages."