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Re:New York Restaurants Fight Back Against Reservations by Bots by lapphi on Friday November 10, 2023 @08:31PM (#38226709)
San in berlin does this. Im surprised at how many users on hn have never experienced or even heard of the practice considering the average income of the group.
Re:New York Restaurants Fight Back Against Reservations by Bots by adolph on Saturday November 11, 2023 @12:01AM (#38227770)
“Why would I leave my house to pay someone else to shake up my bottle of Soylent? I can just buy it premixed.”

“My work has an excellent and free cafeteria. I just eat there and stuff my pockets with things for the company bus ride to my apartment in the hive my company developed.”

“I’m kind of creeped out by restaurants because of the whole power dynamics of someone there to ‘serve’ me. And on top of that they want to know all kinds of stuff about what I want to eat. I think they are collecting all that information and then targeting me with advertising.”