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I can see that argument. If it wrecks these reservation scammers, it'd be better in the long run. But maybe restaurants aren't in the position (or of the mindse

I can see that argument. If it wrecks these reservation scammers, it'd be better in the long run. But maybe restaurants aren't in the position (or of the mindset) to play a game of chicken like that (chicken is no game at a restaurant...) But in general, the restaurants which are most affected by this scheme are the ones who are likely in the best position to do something about it. They may lose some customers who bought fraudulent reservations, which seems like not much of a loss. They may also lose some people who get mad about being questioned. But, in the long run, I think they'd win more fans among people who couldn't go to the restaurant at all when all the reservations were scooped up by bots.

SOLAR_FIELDS 3y ago
Exactly. It almost feels like a non problem. You only have this problem when your restaurant is in such high demand that it’s worthwhile to be targeted by bots. If your restaurant is in such high demand, you have several tools at your disposal and the wherewithal to police reservations much more than some other less in demand restaurant. But those less in demand restaurants will never have this problem in the first place. And like you said, if you’re that in demand, you can afford to lose a few customers
- autoexec 3y ago
  > . You only have this problem when your restaurant is in such high demand that it’s worthwhile to be targeted by bots. Why wouldn't bots buy up every table in every restaurant everywhere no matter how busy they normally are? It costs basically nothing. That way you'll be forced to pay money to some app just to get a table anywhere. Restaurants that don't want to be exploited this way will have to either stop accepting reservations or spend a bunch of time and money fighting bots.
  - SOLAR_FIELDS 3y ago
    No incentive to do so? I can’t speak to the motivations or lack thereof, I can only say (as someone who eats out fairly frequently) that this is a non issue for all but the most in demand restaurants. In my metro area of 1.2 million I can count the restaurants that have had issues with this on one hand.

SOLAR_FIELDS 3y ago

Exactly. It almost feels like a non problem. You only have this problem when your restaurant is in such high demand that it’s worthwhile to be targeted by bots. If your restaurant is in such high demand, you have several tools at your disposal and the wherewithal to police reservations much more than some other less in demand restaurant. But those less in demand restaurants will never have this problem in the first place. And like you said, if you’re that in demand, you can afford to lose a few customers

autoexec 3y ago
> . You only have this problem when your restaurant is in such high demand that it’s worthwhile to be targeted by bots. Why wouldn't bots buy up every table in every restaurant everywhere no matter how busy they normally are? It costs basically nothing. That way you'll be forced to pay money to some app just to get a table anywhere. Restaurants that don't want to be exploited this way will have to either stop accepting reservations or spend a bunch of time and money fighting bots.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 3y ago
  No incentive to do so? I can’t speak to the motivations or lack thereof, I can only say (as someone who eats out fairly frequently) that this is a non issue for all but the most in demand restaurants. In my metro area of 1.2 million I can count the restaurants that have had issues with this on one hand.