If they visit your website and have to book a reservation via phone or email, they are less likely to book.
Soon, with seamless integration with apps like OpenTable and TeleNav, users will be able to tell Siri to book a reservation or navigate them to a restaurant without so much as glancing at their iPhones.
In this scenario, restaurateurs aren't married to proprietary hardware and, although they can use the Web to replace their paper reservation book, it doesn't require them to do so.
That means there are many more things that can be done with Web sites, beyond the more simpler things now where you can click to buy a book or click to make a hotel reservation -- many, many more things will be done when you always have the Web with you.
This critical fact had escaped my mind, and I needed to immediately book a restaurant reservation.
The presentation goes on to explain how, for Siri to do some complex task like book a restaurant reservation for you, it needs to access lots of your apps including: Google, Yelp, Yahoo!
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Restaurants use an electronic reservation book, and customers have access to its full inventory (though a block of tables can be set aside for unannounced regulars and celebrities).
Or you're dying to book that super-hot small restaurant you read about but need help nabbing a reservation.
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In the meantime, you might as well book a reservation on both a plane and a train if you really need to get to New York, or anywhere else.
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Now you grab the keyboard and with a few clicks have a sales brochure sent to your home -- or maybe even book a room at the spa, plus an airline reservation.
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