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Easy enough: call the restaurant yourself then. When you use a service like Opentable, it's hard to claim you thought it was a "one time transaction" that woul
by acheron 8y ago
Easy enough: call the restaurant yourself then.
When you use a service like Opentable, it's hard to claim you thought it was a "one time transaction" that would be forgotten about when it shows your reservation history to you every time you log in.
- jak92 8y ago> Easy enough: call the restaurant yourself then. Except many now use a service provider to manager their reservations. Once they have your phone number (to confirm) it's no longer a one time transaction.
- jasonlotito 8y agoSo then the restaurant doesn't want your business. You aren't willing to pay the cost to use their services.
- dfxm12 8y agoHow do you know how the restaurant is managing reservations when you make one over the phone?
- jasonlotito 8y agoAsk. Either this matters to you, or it doesn't. But if you don't want to make reservations over phone because you are afraid they will share your data or something, then don't.
- chrisan 8y agoYou can state you don't want to give them your number when making a reservation. Of if you happen to find someone persistent about it and you really want to continue to give them your business just use a fake number I've never had a restaurant actually call to confirm I was coming.
- pgodzin 8y agoMany will send an automated text to confirm the reservation the day before
- chipotle_coyote 8y agoRestaurants I book through OpenTable almost always call to confirm I'm coming; other reservation methods usually don't get that, except at the most expensive "special occasion" kinds of places.
- reaperducer 8y agoRestaurants I book through OpenTable almost always call to confirm I'm coming Very interesting. Perhaps it's regional. Based on the number of $100 credits I've gotten, I must have booked hundreds of times through OpenTable, and I've never once gotten a confirmation call.
- melq 8y agoIt's very common for restaurants to text to confirm these days.
- JohnFen 8y ago> Easy enough: call the restaurant yourself then. This is what I do. I see no reason or advantage to bringing a third party into what is a really simple transaction between me and the restaurant.
- greglindahl 8y agoMany restaurants have stopped answering their phones.
- jak92 8y agoReally? Never experienced that
- greglindahl 8y agoMy company just called 300 mid-to-high-end restaurants to try to confirm their hours and ~30% never picked up.
- jak92 8y agoWell, I guess 30% is many. It also could be the time you called, or maybe your # is flagged as spam.
- gcb0 8y agothat's a dangerous strawman. opentable is not profitable and have no market to exist for what they say they offer: reservation convenience, which increases trafic, for a cost to the business. so they offer it for free or much cheaper, amass a lot of data and sell it on the side. effectively bypassing their inexistent above-mentioned business proposal.