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> Making reservations under assumed names (i.e., lying) is also unethical. What? As someone who frequently puts in random names for reservations, I fail to see
by __david__ 12y ago
> Making reservations under assumed names (i.e., lying) is also unethical.
What? As someone who frequently puts in random names for reservations, I fail to see what is unethical about this…
Why on earth does a random restaurant deserve my real name? The transaction going on there is on a different level than that.
> It's easy for restaurants to defeat this: just require diners to show an ID to claim their reservations.
Again, no. If a restaurant demands ID before they seat me, that is a restaurant I will never patronize.
- vacri 12y agoWhat? As someone who frequently puts in random names for reservations, I fail to see what is unethical about this Well, it's not unethical like you're injecting babies with a controversial drug. It's quite mildly unethical - a reservation is a promise. Promising something with a fake name is a little unethical - you're asking someone to do something for you, but offering no avenue of recourse if you don't hold up your end of the bargain. I think in this case that it's unethical to the same degree that taking some ballpoints home from work is stealing.
- alialkhatib 12y agoIf I gave someone my real name for a reservation and then flaked, there's nothing they could (practically) do about it anyway. The name is just the key you use to associate yourself with an otherwise secret list of reservations.
- vitriolix 12y ago"Why on earth does a random restaurant deserve my real name?" Maybe because some asshat is selling reservations without their permission or consent?