Skift Table: The New Restaurant Reservations Landscape
Photo Caption: Union Square Cafe reopened last year using Resy, though many other Danny Meyer restaurants still use OpenTable to handle reservations. Emily Andrews
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Chefs+Tech is now Skift Table. Kicking off our original coverage, here are three perspectives on the evolving business of reservations.
Last week, we announced Skift's Chefs+Tech newsletter is now Skift Table.
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The New Restaurant Reservations Landscape
Making a restaurant reservation is a practice that originated by picking up the phone and calling another human. Now, convenience and our increasingly digital lifestyles allow for fast discovery and booking via a number of dedicated reservations systems.
Reservations — the commodity — seem pretty straightforward; reserve a time in a book and the restaurant holds the table and prepares for your arrival. In today’s real-time real world of digital connectiv
