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Well, he also claims to only do restaurants with high demand, so if the restaurant can accept 10 extra walk-ins that night instead of turning them away then eve

• Mikeb85 12y ago
  A good example of the kind of demand I'm talking about is New Year's Eve. Every NYE people scramble for reservations. Many people will book at 2-3 restaurants to have options. As a result, everyone who is going on that night has a reservation, and everyone who doesn't have a reservation goes to a house party or stays home. You never get walk-ins on NYE (or Valentine's day for that matter). Sure, maybe trendy restaurants on a busy strip can make up the difference. And maybe this is most restaurants in SF, I don't know, I'm not from there. But if it's a destination restaurant, it often can't make up lost reservations on such short notice because no one will plan their evening around a chance at possibly walking in to a restaurant known to only take reservations. Either way, any success he gets will be short lived, as SF restaurants will soon start taking CC numbers en-masse, or selling tickets like Alinea. They'll cut him out of their business, and if he tries dealing with them face-to-face, he'll be blacklisted. The fact that he's already created such outrage on Twitter may seem encouraging to him, but he's basically already killed any chance he has of creating goodwill. Recently someone in our city tried scamming restaurants for free stuff by claiming to be a member of the press, was outed on Twitter and swiftly blacklisted by every restaurant in the community. When you run a business that has capital costs potentially in the millions for 5-20% margins if you're lucky, you don't react well to people scamming you.