By taking up reservations that they may not sell, they make the problem worse and obscure what’s going on while costing restaurants business. By extracting mon

By taking up reservations that they may not sell, they make the problem worse and obscure what’s going on while costing restaurants business. By extracting money from customers they people off of fine dining, which makes running restaurants harder. Not a lot but every 0.1% matters in such a competitive industry.