Ticket to Dine - Hackdot

Re:Ticket to Dine by batrat on Monday December 08, 2014 @04:17PM (#8719235)

Paying to book a restaurant? Probably just for an event. Otherwise I don't see people paying for it. Also, what is more easy? making a simple call or using an app/website, enter payment methods, accounts, etc....?

I know there is an app for everything, but making a call is 1000 better than using any app at the moment.

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Re:Ticket to Dine by kasey_junk on Monday December 08, 2014 @04:20PM (#8719259)

Well to be fair Next and Alinea have been dramatically successful with the model. And for that class of restaurant, I much prefer the model of "buy ticket" to "call and be told there is nothing available".

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Re:Ticket to Dine by sync on Monday December 08, 2014 @04:41PM (#8719381)

But how many of those restaurants are there really?

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Re:Ticket to Dine by tptacek on Monday December 08, 2014 @04:58PM (#8719482)

Probably at least 5 in every major metro, and more in NYC, Chicago, and San Francisco. With the current customer perception, that is: for "destination" restaurants, like Alinea, Saison, Ko.

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Re:Ticket to Dine by johnbenwoo on Monday December 08, 2014 @04:55PM (#8719468)

There could be more of them with this kind of system.

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Re:Ticket to Dine by maerF0x0 on Monday December 08, 2014 @04:21PM (#8719268)

I think the $$ is often an exchange for more than just a place. It includes food or credit towards food, prefixe meals etc.

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