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High end restaurants in my city and a few European cities I've been to recently required reservations with payment up front. At worst, the restaurant still gets
by grumple 3y ago
High end restaurants in my city and a few European cities I've been to recently required reservations with payment up front. At worst, the restaurant still gets the money if someone (like a bot account) no shows. This would be a pretty high risk endeavor to use a bot to reserve at these restaurants.
Maybe restaurants should go back to requiring reservations over the phone or in person. Or require an ID to match the name on the reservation.
- kristjansson 3y agoStarts to look like the venue-artist-scalper relationship. The provider gets to hand off some of the risk in exchange for the peaks of profit.
- grork 3y agoI did a two week trip in the UK recently, and over the ~8 restaurants we ate at, 7 required credit card to reserve, with a specific fee that would be applied if no-show