Most of the restaurants around here just link to OpenTable on their reservations page, if you get there via Google. I think they actually pay a smaller percent

Most of the restaurants around here just link to OpenTable on their reservations page, if you get there via Google. I think they actually pay a smaller percentage for those kind of bookings, rather than ones that were generated within the OpenTable app. That thing he mentions about restaurants not putting up their prime time reservations is a bigger threat to OpenTable, since they know they will be sold and don't want to pay the fees, but I don't know how widespread that is outside of chic city restaurants. I know that I would just book elsewhere if I saw that a place "seemed" book solid in OpenTable.