Food & Drinks
Restaurant Owners Are Fed Up With Reservation-Hoarding Bots
Platforms like Resy and Tock are searching for ways around algorithms that snatch up prime-time reservations and then re-sell them to desperate diners.
An owner of Double Chicken Please has seats at his bar sell for over $300 — just to walk in the door.
Source: Double Chicken Please
To score a table at Don Angie, the Italian-American hotspot in New York’s West Village, the official course of action is to log on to restaurant booking site Resy at 9 a.m. seven days before the desired dining date. At least, that’s the policy that chef-owners Angie Rito and Scott Tacinelli have set up for potential diners.
But those who have recently tried to book those elusive seats via the reservation platform know they rarely open up.