Another advantage of using online reservation solutions for restaurants is the ease in providing customized service to diners.
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The OpenTable online reservation service is free for diners, but restaurants are charged a reservation fee for each diner who reserves a table using the OpenTable system.
There were whispers around the Valley that he was leaving to become a venture capitalist with many speculating he may join Benchmark, an early backer of the public online reservation company.
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Passionate foodies have long been using online reservation sites like Open Table to quickly check availability at top restaurants, and in some cases, to score otherwise difficult to obtain reservations.
Online restaurant reservation specialist OpenTable Inc. (OPEN) is headed for a sharp gap lower on the open this morning.
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All online restaurant reservation providers offer their services to diners for free.
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OpenTable shares are trading sharply lower after-hours Tuesday after the online restaurant reservation network provided weaker-than-expected guidance for both Q2 and all of 2012.
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This suggests that, while OpenTable is already the single largest provider of online restaurant reservation services, it is also witnessing almost 40% annual growth in the number of diners it seats.
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As the biggest player in the online restaurant reservation industry in North America, OpenTable has a significant competitive advantage with more than 13, 000 of the estimated 30, 000 reservation-taking full-service restaurants in North America as its customers.
Non-automotive judges were Michael Zimbalist, vice president of research and development operations for The New York Times Company who is a co-founder and former president of the Online Publishers Association (OPA), and Joseph Essas, chief technology officer of the online restaurant reservation service, OpenTable, and formerly vice president of engineering for Yahoo!
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OpenTable remains the undisputed leader in online-restaurant reservation industry, with nearly 50% of all full-service, reservation-taking restaurants in North America enrolled as its customers.
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T. systems offered solutions as simple as buying a book, booking travel or making a restaurant reservation online and he wondered why that was the case.
But they don't let reservation systems and online ticket sellers to combine those ultracheap fares with connecting flights in a single transaction.
Booking.com, or other online travel agencies don't count as central reservation system referrals in the in the math I use to calculate this.
OpenTable automated the restaurant reservation process by having it all in a single online system.
Reservation-taking full-service restaurants have increasingly adopted online booking options over the past few years.
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