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Re:New York Restaurants Fight Back Against Reservations by Bots by justinlkarr on Friday November 10, 2023 @02:01PM (#38223004)
I think this is actually common now. I'm often asked to make a deposit on a reservation when using Resy.

I'm not aware that there is variable or dynamic pricing component to it, however. That's a great idea and something I bet they are considering.

In practice, dynamic pricing it is not a panacea. You still need to beat the arbitrage market. Charge too much: customers don't reserve. Charge too little: brokers snap it up.

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Re:New York Restaurants Fight Back Against Reservations by Bots by eternauta3k on Friday November 10, 2023 @02:15PM (#38223178)
Auction them off :)
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Re:New York Restaurants Fight Back Against Reservations by Bots by 1_1xdev1 on Friday November 10, 2023 @08:00PM (#38226527)
On Resy, at least, there is not dynamic pricing (though, in theory, restaurants can apply different deposit/cancel fees to different "reservation types", or different days. But nothing dynamic based on demand or anything)
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Re:New York Restaurants Fight Back Against Reservations by Bots by justinlkarr on Friday November 10, 2023 @10:16PM (#38227331)
This is interesting. Are there restaurants doing this kind of variable pricing?

I bet there are some eager GMs thinking about it.

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