If your favorite places offer gift certificates, that's a good way to support them. You're basically giving them an interest-free loan for the amount that you purchase. I've already done this with a bunch of my favorite local restaurants.
Sadly OT no longer has their old gift card program, which was my baby when I worked there :<
Re:The state of the restaurant industry
by human_eyes on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @07:48AM
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OpenTable is not a charity, it’s a reservation service restaurants pay for.
If OT wanted to be charitable, they could lower their service fee, but nobody’s making any reservations right now anyway.
I wanted to help a couple of local business but there’s nothing on-line: Google Maps says that they are open (and my city in in lock-down).