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October 19, 2010 - Sacramento Bee
Biba honored as one of America's top Italian restaurants
Not a bad birthday present.
Sacramento's Biba restaurant received a 2010 Diners' Choice Award for best Italian cuisine from online reservat ...
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September 30, 2010 - Bloomberg Businessweek
OpenTable vs. Groupon: Party of Two?
By Brad Stone
Bloomberg Businessweek
The Essex, on Manhattan's Lo ...
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June 30, 2010 - The New York Times
Before the Entrees, Apps to Winnow Choices and Find Seats
Smartphones have made it simple to find a restaurant at the last minute. The gastronomic triumvirate of Urbanspoon, Yelp and OpenTable each have well- ...
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June 10, 2010 - USA Today
Top 10 Free Travel Apps
OpenTable— OpenTable's app is essentially a miniaturized version of its online services. That's not a criticism, of course. OpenTable lets you m ...
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May 04, 2010 - TechCrunch
OpenTable's $150 Million Mobile App (And Q1 Earnings)
Since OpenTable launched its iPhone app in November, 2008 it has booked restaurant reservations for 3 million diners through it and other mobile apps. ...
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April 25, 2010 - PCWorld
10 Great Shopping, Dining, and Travel Websites
Whether you're shopping online or in a brick-and-mortar store, finding and tracking deals takes some work. Some of these 10 incredibly useful sites ca ...
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April 22, 2010 - Memphis DailyNews
Restaurateurs Find Opportunities in New Technology
Nowadays there’s a cell phone app for nearly everything – and restaurant reservations are no exception.
That’s not been l ...
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February 10, 2010 - TechCrunch
OpenTable Seats 2 Million Diners Via Mobile Apps
Additionally, the site says that based on an estimation of a $50 average check per diner, OpenTable claims that diners using its mobile applications h ...
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February 09, 2010 - Houston Chronicle
Valentine's Day: Romantic Dining Revisited
According to a survey by OpenTable.com, one of the leading online restaurant reservations sites, only 2 percent of Valentine's Day diners care about s ...
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January 29, 2010 - Nations Restaurant News
OpenTable's 50 Most Romantic Restaurants
OpenTable analyzed more than 4 million reviews from last year to build its list, which includes 50 restaurants from coast to coast. Restaurants receiv ...
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January 13, 2010 - USA Today
Tuck into these dining deals during Restaurant Week
Launched in New York City nearly two decades ago, the concept has "picked up a lot of steam in the last few years," encompassing more restaurants and ...
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November 24, 2009 - Kelsey Group
OpenTable Goes Mobile; 1 Million Served
This is a logical move, given that arts and entertainment is a big category of mobile content consumption, according to our recently released Mobile M ...
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November 01, 2009 - InStyle Magazine
Essential Bookmarks: Make a Dinner Reservation
Type in location, time, kind of food you would like, and number in your party. The site then scans the reservation systems of thousands of restaurant ...
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October 29, 2009 - TechCrunch
OpenTable Seats One Million Diners Via Mobile Apps
OpenTable allows diners to find and book reservations at more than 11,000 different restaurants in multiple countries via mobile applications for the ...
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October 01, 2009 - Bon Appétit
The Bon Appétit Awards 2009
OpenTable (Jeffrey Jordan, CEO), for perfecting reservations on the go with the OpenTable iPhone app.
Talking to a live person for a reserv ...
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August 24, 2009 - TIME.com
50 Best Websites 2009
OpenTable does one (seemingly trivial) thing: help you make a restaurant reservation. But it does it so well that you'll wonder how you ever lived wit ...
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August 14, 2009 - FORTUNE
OpenTable – The Hottest Spot in Town
When online reservation service OpenTable (OPEN) went public in May, tech pundits gushed like foodies at a five-star restaurant. Some entrepreneurs an ...
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August 04, 2009 - Guardian.co.uk
OpenTable adds Blackberry to iPhone and Palm mobile apps
I have to confess. Given my choice, I really don't like using the phone, and because of this, I often use OpenTable to book reservations at restaur ...
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July 22, 2009 - South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Table for 2? No problem, with online restaurant reservation service
South Florida publicist Richard Murry is used to booking dinner reservations as part of his job. He's spent hundreds of hours on hold with popular ...
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May 19, 2009 - c|net News.com
Webware 100 winner: OpenTable
Site: OpenTable.com Category: Location-based services
OpenTable is an online reservation service. It lets people find rese ...
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May 18, 2009 - Nations Restaurant News
Earn Dining Dollars by Documenting and Digitizing Guest Data
By JEFF JORDAN
Competition for diners’ dollars is fierce, especially during a down economy. To successfully win customers and build bu ...
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March 31, 2009 - The New York Times
Today's Internet Trend: Local Ratings and Reviews
In separate announcements on Tuesday, MySpace, the social network, and OpenTable, the reservations site, said they would soon begin allowing their ...
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March 12, 2009 - The Wall Street Journal
Scoring A Restaurant Table Online
By JANE HODGES
Going online to make a restaurant reservation -- or better yet, get a discount -- is no longer a novelty. For about a decade, ...
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December 31, 2008 - The Washington Post
The Fixe Is In
On Friday at 12:30 p.m., the bar at Proof is buzzing. There are stylish 30-somethings at a low table, a line of suits at the long bar. Nearly every ...
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November 17, 2008 - TechCrunch
OpenTable Reservations Come To The iPhone
Some of the most useful set of apps on the iPhone are the restaurant apps that tell you what is to eat nearby. There’s UrbanSpoon, Yelp, and ...
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November 14, 2008 - Washington Post
Dinner & Discounts
Forget the economic stimulus. Next week, more than 150 area restaurants want you to think about stimulating your appetite. From Nov. 17 to 21, they ...
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November 13, 2008 - Omaha World-Herald
Click, then dine: Online reservation system catches on
Scribbled waiting lists and wipe-board seating charts have gone the way of the stone and chisel at some Omaha restaurants.
So have no-reserv ...
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September 29, 2008 - San Francisco Chronicle
OpenTable users now can post restaurant reviews on the site
Diners who use OpenTable, the online restaurant reservation service, now can play the role of critic by writing reviews for the site.
The fe ...
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July 18, 2008 - Charlotte Business Journal
OpenTable.com has its Eye on Charlotte for Expansion
The company hopes more restaurants and diners will use its online service to manage and book reservations.
“We’ve seen amazing g ...
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July 14, 2008 - Nations Restaurant News
Guests get their say quickly and easily with electronic aids - Part II
By Alan J. Liddle
(continued) Kenney said the entire Papa Murphy’s system has used Mind-share’s service and technology for ...
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July 14, 2008 - Nations Restaurant News
Guests get their say quickly and easily with electronic aids - Part I
(July 14, 2008) Managers have told restaurant employees about customer calls of complaint or praise since the advent of the telephone, but new tec ...
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July 02, 2008 - Star Tribune
Counter Intelligence: Online reservations
By Rick Nelson
The time may soon be upon us when diners no longer avail themselves of a device so 20th-century as a telephone to make a r ...
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July 01, 2008 - Washington Post
OpenTable Offers Al Fresco Access
By Rob Pegoraro
If any Web site ought to work on an Internet-enabled mobile phone, it should be one built specifically to get you out of y ...
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July 01, 2008 - The Wall Street Journal
Fine Dining via BlackBerry
By Mylene Mangalindan
It’s a truism in business that the customer is always right. For restaurants, that used to mean diners might se ...
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June 30, 2008 - Reuters
OpenTable.com will now serve mobile devices
By Anupreeta Das
Having spent nearly a decade convincing 8,500 restaurants to let people book tables online, OpenTable.com now aims to mak ...
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June 30, 2008 - The New York Times
OpenTable.com Talks New Features and Growth
By Brad Stone
OpenTable.com, the Internet’s dominant restaurant reservations site, does a good job of telling people where they can ...
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June 30, 2008 - USA Today
Restaurant reservations on your cellphone
By Michelle Kessler
Gourmands -- and people too lazy to cook -- might want to check out some new features available on restaurant reservat ...
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June 30, 2008 - Yankee Group
OpenTable.com Mobilizes Dinner Reservations
By Carl Howe
I’ve just begun researching a report with a working title of “Best of the Mobile Web.” As a result, I was ...
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June 29, 2008 - VentureBeat
OpenTable seats 3M diners a month, releases mobile version
By Matt Marshall
OpenTable, the San Francisco company that lets you make online reservations at any of 8,500 restaurants, said it it is sea ...
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June 29, 2008 - TechCrunch
Book Restaurant Reservations On The Go With OpenTable
By Jason Kincaid
OpenTable, the web-enabled restaurant management provider, has introduced a new mobile feature that lets users make resta ...
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May 14, 2008 - San Francisco Chronicle
ONLINE: OpenTable's Diners' Choice lists
OpenTable, the online restaurant reservation system, is taking its listings one step further and making actual lists - as in best food, best brunch ...
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February 11, 2008 - Cincinnati Enquirer
Your table is open online
By Stepfanie Romine
Brian Goldberg had been trying to make reservations at Nada for a couple of weeks, but the new Mexican restaurant at 6 ...
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October 21, 2007 - Chicago Tribune
Travel Insider
By James Gilden
Researching and making hotel and plane reservations online is old hat for many travelers these days. But what about using t ...
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October 05, 2007 - Charlotte Business Journal
OpenTable Has No Reservations About Expanding Here
By Ashley M. London
San Francisco technology company OpenTable Inc. is targeting the Queen City for growth as more restaurants sign up to ...
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September 20, 2007 - Minneapolis-St. Paul Pioneer Press
7 good reasons to reserve online
No one likes calling a hot new restaurant to wangle a 7 p.m. table. But making reservations is getting a lot easier now that restaurants in the Twi ...
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August 28, 2007 - LA Times
OpenTable: Free, easy restaurant reservations
By Sara Benson
Time is something I never have enough of, and anything that makes my travel planning easier is fantastic, as long as it doe ...
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August 18, 2007 - Indianapolis Business Journal
Local restaurants joining online reservation trend - Part I
By Jennifer Whitson
A last-minute meeting with a key client pops up at the end of a workday. If the host wants to take the group to dinner ...
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August 18, 2007 - Indianapolis Business Journal
Local restaurants joining online reservation trend - Part II
By Jennifer Whitson
Continued from Part I
Café Nora’s F ...
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August 08, 2007 - Raleigh News & Observer
Fine dining a click away - Part II
By Sue Stock
Continued from Part I
"It's sort of a star on your jac ...
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August 08, 2007 - Raleigh News & Observer
Fine dining a click away - Part I
By Sue Stock
For Raleigh resident Bryan Formidoni, there's only one way to make a reservation at a restaurant -- OpenTable.com.
Whe ...
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August 07, 2007 - WCBS
OpenTable.com: Best Way to Get a Restaurant Reservation
OpenTable.com featured on CBS News.
Full video here: http ...
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August 05, 2007 - Chicago Suburban News
Surf-and-click seating gives around-the-clock access
By Jessica Young
Western Suburbs, IL - While she was planning a trip to New Orleans, Joyce Bartizal of Naperville wanted to make sure she ...
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July 18, 2007 - Honolulu Star Bulletin
Go online to dine - Part III
By Katherine Nichols
Continued from Part II.
A previous handwritten ...
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July 18, 2007 - Honolulu Star Bulletin
Go online to dine - Part II
By Katherine Nichols
Continued from Part I.
Web reservations get ...
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July 18, 2007 - Honolulu Star Bulletin
Go online to dine - Part I
By Katherine Nichols
It's 7 a.m. and you realize that you need to take out-of-town clients to dinner. You don't have a reservation, and yo ...
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July 12, 2007 - The Arizona Republic
Web helps restaurants track patrons' needs - Part II
By Richard Ruelas
About an hour before the first customers were set to arrive at Sassi, an Italian restaurant in north Scottsdale, manageme ...
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July 12, 2007 - The Arizona Republic
Web helps restaurants track patrons' needs - Part I
By Richard Ruelas
About an hour before the first customers were set to arrive at Sassi, an Italian restaurant in north Scottsdale, manageme ...
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June 18, 2007 - The New York Times
Restaurant Reservations Go Online - Part III
By Katie Hafner
Continued from Part II.
“In the old days, the ...
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June 18, 2007 - The New York Times
Restaurant Reservations Go Online - Part II
By Katie Hafner
Continued from Part I.
The reservations that pop up ...
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June 18, 2007 - The New York Times
Restaurant Reservations Go Online - Part I
By Katie Hafner
SAN FRANCISCO, June 17 — Town Hall, one of the busiest restaurants in this food-crazed city, seems the very model of ...
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March 31, 2007 - Wall Street Journal
How to Get the Ungettable Table - Part I
By Katy McLaughlin & Sarah Nassauer
Mariangela Sassi, a 35-year-old marketing consultant in San Francisco, has dined at fine restaurants ar ...
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March 31, 2007 - Wall Street Journal
How to Get the Ungettable Table - Part III
By Katy McLaughlin & Sarah Nassauer
Continued from Part 2
Making ma ...
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March 31, 2007 - The Wall Street Journal
How to Get the Ungettable Table - Part II
By Katy McLaughlin & Sarah Nassauer
Continued from Part 1
The 120 r ...
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February 23, 2007 - Business First of Columbus
Online sites satisfy patrons' hunger for quick, easy dinner reservations - Part II
By Susan Deutschle
(continued from Part I)
Delaware County resident ...
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February 23, 2007 - Business First of Columbus
Online sites satisfy patrons' hunger for quick, easy dinner reservations - Part I
By Susan Deutschle
Picking up the telephone to make a dinner reservation is so passé. Today's savvy diners are using the Internet to s ...
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February 21, 2007 - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Need a corner table? Reservation at 7? OpenTable online gets it for you fast
By Bill Lubinger Plain Dealer Columnist
The Internet is a World Wide Web of the weird and the wonderful. For customers and restaurateurs ...
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February 15, 2007 - nbc4.com
Avoid Long Restaurant Waiting Lists
Restaurant Experts Give Insider Tips
WASHINGTON -- It's never a good sight. You walk into a restaurant only to find you're in for a long wa ...
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September 08, 2006 - Orlando Sentinel
Table for 2 is a click away - Part II
Patrons and restaurants appear to have no reservations about going online to book a night of fine dining. By Scott Joseph
As an enticemen ...
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September 08, 2006 - Orlando Sentinel
Table for 2 is a click away - Part I
Patrons and restaurants appear to have no reservations about going online to book a night of fine dining. By Scott Joseph
To the attic al ...
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September 01, 2006 - Orlando Business Journal
More diners clicking onto online reservation service
47 local restaurants now using booking system By Bob Mervine
ORLANDO -- An Internet system that offers advance bookings for member resta ...
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August 31, 2006 - South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Quick Bites
Book a night on the 'Net' By Jeff Rusnak
A computer monitor has replaced the reservations book at 108 South Florida restaurants linked t ...
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July 28, 2006 - The Baltimore Sun
Bargain whets appetites
First-ever effort packs restaurants at normally slow time By Andrea K. Walker
Sultry summer days usually mean slow business for restaura ...
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July 01, 2006 - Santé Magazine
Restaurant Evolution - Part IV
(continued)
Kornick: At N9NE, we launched a $69 margarita with premium Tequila and Grand Marnier and a green-sugar 9 stir stick and got ...
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July 01, 2006 - Santé Magazine
Restaurant Evolution - Part I
Managers Focus on Quality Products and Services By Sharon McDonnell
A rapidly changing business climate---an inescapable condition of twe ...
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July 01, 2006 - Santé Magazine
Restaurant Evolution - Part III
Managers Focus on Quality Products and Services By Sharon McDonnell
(continued)
How do you go about taking the pulse of your ta ...
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July 01, 2006 - Santé Magazine
Restaurant Evolution - Part II
Managers Focus on Quality Products and Services By Sharon McDonnell
Our panel of outstanding food and beverage professionals (con ...
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June 19, 2006 - Newsday
Like waiting? Go out to eat.
For those who hate standing in a crowded lobby, the 'Net's a find
BY CLAUDIA GRYVATZ COPQUIN
The following is a facsimile of consecutiv ...
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June 02, 2006 - San Francisco Chronicle
Want a table? How about 5 or 9:30?
From Between Meals by Michael Bauer
The permutations of questions from my reservation entry seem to be endless. Several readers emailed comm ...
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May 11, 2006 - MSNBC.com
Honoring Mom is big business
Mother's Day turning into a bonanza for retailers, restaurants
By Gayle B. Ronan
Nothing is too good for Mom. Proof of this may be foun ...
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May 11, 2006 - The New York Times
Google Shows New Services in Battle of Search Engines
By SAUL HANSELL
Google has focused the Co-op service on two areas, health and local guides, and the handful of participating sites includes ...
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May 07, 2006 - Associated Press
Dining out Restaurants more receptive to children on Mother's Day
NEW YORK (AP)
Mother's Day is more like Family Day in most restaurants, and in the restaurant industry, it's known as "the most forgiving da ...
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May 03, 2006 - Tucson Citizen
E-reservations
Restaurant owners using such services find a reduction in frustration, costs By JENNY HUNSPERGER
One day you'll probably be able to brows ...
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May 01, 2006 - Women's Health
31 GREAT WEB SITES - Save Time, Money and Stress!
STRESSOR - You're trying to make a Saturday dinner reservation, and every place but Chuck E. Cheese's is booked.
SOLUTION: OpenTable.com
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May 01, 2006 - EAT Magazine
This Table Is Reserved
A growing number of Internet-savvy diners are enjoying the convenience of online booking, and writer Robert Hill is quickly becoming one of them.
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April 15, 2006 - Rocky Mountain News
Maitre D'igital Part II
Technology brings convenience, better service to the table By John Lehndorff
However, if it wasn't for the insistence of his managers, hi ...
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April 15, 2006 - Rocky Mountain News
Maitre D'igital Part I
Technology brings convenience, better service to the table By John Lehndorff
Once upon a time, you had to be a very patient person if you ...
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April 15, 2006 - Rocky Mountain News
Maitre D'igital Part III
Technology brings convenience, better service to the table
By John Lehndorff
By the numbers
120 Number of Colorado restaurants curr ...
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April 13, 2006 - Orange County Register
O.C. diners can use site to book tables
OpenTable.com lets would-be O.C. diners reserve tables online at 56 locations free of charge, 24 hours a day. By Nancy Luna
As general ma ...
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April 05, 2006 - Newsday
A cook's tour of useful Internet sites
By Erica Marcus
The Internet is a rich source of culinary information. Here are 10 sites that I consult regularly:
1. Hormel Food Gl ...
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March 03, 2006 - Skyway News
Click for reservations
Fine Dining Made Easier By Tammy Sproule Kaplan
For the diner who is even the slightest bit neurotic, leaving a reservation on a restaura ...
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February 11, 2006 - KGO-AM 810 (ABC)
Dining Around with Gene Burns - Part II
Gene Burns interview with Jaleh Bisharat, VP of Marketing at OpenTable.com.
Ms. BISHARAT: Some real nice restaurants still have a couple o ...
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February 11, 2006 - KGO-AM 810 (ABC)
Dining Around with Gene Burns - Part I
Gene Burns interview with Jaleh Bisharat, VP of Marketing at OpenTable.com.
GENE BURNS, host:
KGO time now is 12:39 on DINING AROUND ...
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February 10, 2006 - KGO-AM 810 (ABC)
Dining Around with Gene Burns - Part III
Gene Burns interview with Jaleh Bisharat, VP of Marketing at OpenTable.com.
BURNS: Yeah, sometimes when we travel--obviously people who com ...
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January 27, 2006 - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Make reservations in a snap with a click onto dining site
By Douglas Trattner
In other major metropolitan areas, the OpenTable online reservation system is a way of life. Diners routinely employ the ...
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January 26, 2006 - Tucson Weekly
Part II: The Modern Maitre d'
New technology helps discerning restaurants get to know their customers By John Peck
Continued.... "Eighty percent of my decision (to ...
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January 26, 2006 - Tucson Weekly
Part I: The Modern Maitre d'
New technology helps discerning restaurants get to know their customers By John Peck
In 1966, my prom date and I had dinner at the Tack R ...
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January 25, 2006 - Akron Beacon Journal
Reservations a click away
Vaccaro's Trattoria joins growing Internet service By Jane Snow
Making restaurant reservations by Internet is picking up steam in Ohio. S ...
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January 01, 2006 - Chicago Tribune
Travel Insider
By James Gilden Dining reservations just a click away
Researching and making hotel and plane reservations online is old hat for many trav ...
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November 24, 2005 - Orange County Register
No Need to Bribe a Maitre D'
By Anne Valdespino
It's nearly midnight. In one week we leave for Vegas. So many great places to eat, but we haven't made one reservation. H ...
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November 02, 2005 - Click click, yum yum
Indianapolis Star
A table for two is only a Web site away. By Kelly Kendall
Depending on how you made your reservation, managers at the Oceanaire Seafood R ...
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November 01, 2005 - Santé Magazine
The Internet is changing dining-out behavior. Are you prepared?
This article was written by OpenTable CEO Thomas Layton
A quiet revolution is redefining how restaurateurs fill seats. Your goal may be t ...
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August 17, 2005 - The Seattle Times
Risks and rewards of booking your table online - Part II
By Nancy Leson Seattle Times Restaurant Critic
Chris Keff, chef/owner of Flying Fish, is skeptical. "The question with these online ser ...
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August 17, 2005 - The Seattle Times
Risks and rewards of booking your table online - Part I
By Nancy Leson Seattle Times Restaurant Critic
When Rosalie D'Amico walks into Café Juanita, they've got her number. Before she take ...
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May 19, 2005 - Chicago Tribune
Chicagoans are good tippers, noon teetotalers
By Phil Vettel Tribune restaurant critic
When Chicago diners receive excellent service in white-tablecloth restaurants, they happily hand ...
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May 18, 2005 - San Francisco Chronicle
Dining Survey Taps Likes, Dislikes
By Carol Ness Chronicle Staff Writer
Listening to someone gab on a cell phone while you're dining out may not be quite as bad as finding ...
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May 18, 2005 - The Boston Globe
Diners offer some tasty tips
By Alison Arnett
Across the country, diners are eating out more often, spending more, and drinking more than last year, according to an Open ...
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May 18, 2005 - Boston Globe
Reservations are just a few mouse clicks away
By Alison Arnett, Globe Staff
Making dinner reservations can be stressful. You want to go to one of the new, hip places but you don't have t ...
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May 18, 2005 - Washington Post
Well, We Try To Eat Right
By Judith M. Havemann
Washingtonians spend $49.32 per person, including tax and tip, when they go out to dinner at a fine restaurant.
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May 03, 2005 - MSNBC.com
Share a meal, and time, with your Mom
Taking your mom out is a perfect last-minute Mother's Day gift
By Teri Goldberg Shopping columnist
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February 07, 2005 - The Journal News.com
Reservations for Valentine's Day Dinner Are Going Fast
By Barbara Waller
THE JOURNAL NEWS
Click Here To Make Yo ...
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January 09, 2005 - Bradenton Herald
Haute-tech cuisine
Online restaurant reservation company targets Tampa Bay By Tilde Herrera
SARASOTA - Twenty-four hours a day, diners can make a reservatio ...
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December 11, 2004 - KGO-AM 810 (ABC)
Dining Around with GENE BURNS - Part II
Interview with THOMAS LAYTON San Francisco Broadcast Transcript
GB: You know, we need you to give seminars because--no, no, wait--I'm ...
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December 11, 2004 - KGO-AM 810 (ABC)
Dining Around with GENE BURNS - Part I
Interview with THOMAS LAYTON San Francisco Broadcast Transcript
BURNS (Host):
You're listening to DINING AROUND WITH Gene Burn ...
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November 10, 2004 - San Francisco Chronicle
WHAT'S NEW
RESTAURANTS / A gift of dinner out
For that restaurant-goer on your holiday shopping list, a first: dining- out gift certificates redeemable ...
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September 01, 2004 - DM News
OpenTable Helps Restaurants Keep Tables Full
by Mickey Alam Khan
The Internet is serving restaurants well.
As competition intensifies to fill seats and turn more tables, both re ...
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August 20, 2004 - San Francisco Chronicle
Food Lovers Not Fazed By Paying Top Dollar
by Carol Ness
Rising restaurant checks don't seem to be discouraging Bay Area diners, who are eating out more than last year, even though pr ...
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August 20, 2004 - San Francisco Chronicle
Bay Area Dining Habits - Chronicle OpenTable Survey
Bay Area Dining Habits
Here are some results from a Chronicle and OpenTable survey of 1,320 Bay
Area diners. The survey was conducte ...
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August 20, 2004 - San Francisco Chronicle
A Renewed Appetite For Splashy Restaurants
by Carol Ness
Doors are flying open at new high-profile restaurants around the Bay Area at a pace not seen since the dot-com boom.
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August 09, 2004 - Charleston Regional Business Journal
One-click cuisine
Restaurants Choose Web Advertising to Increase Sales By Sarah G. McC. Moise, Staff Writer
"With the amount of revenue we're getting,[the ...
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August 01, 2004 - San Diego Magazine
Side Dish
by Patricia Walsh
LIKE PUMPING YOUR OWN GAS, scanning your own groceries and printing your own airline boarding pass, the new economy has ta ...
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May 23, 2004 - New York Times
Click and Eat on the Road (excerpt)
by Bob Tedeschi
...And while RestaurantRow customers must wait for e-mail confirmation of their reservations, on OpenTable the reservation i ...
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May 19, 2004 - The San Diego Channel
Make Restaurant Reservations Online
Web Site Lets Diners Request Table, Server, Menu Items
SAN DIEGO -- Waiting for a table at a busy restaurant can spoil your appetite. That's ...
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May 09, 2004 - Washington Post
The Expert
Reservation Maven Jennifer Roe, age not disclosed Maitre d', DC Coast Restaurant
WORKING THE CROWD: I started hosting in 1988, at the ...
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May 01, 2004 - Santé Magazine
Maximizing Profits: Restaurant Reality Check - Gathering market research
Technology Tools:
New Software is also making it possible for restaurateurs to get to know their customers better. One of the most popular app ...
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February 01, 2004 - Slammed Magazine
Reality of Virtual Reservations
by Marisa Guthrie
Online reservation systems are helping restaurants organize their floors, streamline their organization and create invalua ...
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December 15, 2003 - Nations Restaurant News
Restaurant Industry Execs & Educators Roundtable
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November 19, 2003 - Washington Post
Dining Out on Thanksgiving?
You'd better make your reservations soon. For a list of about 30 restaurants offering holiday dinners, visit www.opentable.com. This Web site, Open ...
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November 10, 2003 - LA Times
A quest for the French Laundry
To afford one of Napa's best restaurants, they stayed in a tent. But this campground was lacking one thing.
Yountville, Calif. — In pl ...
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September 11, 2003 - BBC
BBC World's Click Online
Carmen Roberts went to Los Angeles to investigate a new way of booking restaurant tables online.
LA is the home of movie stars and beautiful ...
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September 03, 2003 - Washington Times
High-tech devices put more options on diners' plates
Technology is fast becoming a top item on restaurant menus.
They are adding sophisticated systems and high-tech gadgets to
enhance cu ...
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July 27, 2003 - Washington Post
Wonder Why You're Simmering?; Turnover, Atmosphere Shape Policies on Making Diners Wait
John Fulchino, the co-owner of Cashion's Eat Place and Johnny's Half Shell restaurants in Washington, once told me that deciding to take reservati ...
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June 02, 2003 - Charleston Regional Business Journal
Local restaurants enlist web and software to help boost bottom line
In a city jam-packed with fine eating establishments, a number of Charleston restaurant owners have turned to the World Wide Web to give them an ed ...
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April 23, 2003 - LA Times
MATTERS OF TASTE
They have a file on you * Restaurants are using computers to record what diners eat, drink, say and do. All in the name of service.
Like ...
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February 19, 2003 - San Francisco Chronicle
Sometimes, a Mouse Can be a Restaurateur's Best Friend
The business of making and tracking reservations has gone high-tech. The paper book of yore is still around but more and more these days, particularly ...
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February 12, 2003 - San Francisco Chronicle
Heavens to Betsy
Sick of sitting on the phone, hoping against hope for a table at the French
Laundry? Now, you can go online for a shot at the nation's toughes ...
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December 16, 2002 - Nations Restaurant News
Reservation service surpasses millionth mark in high growth year
SAN FRANCISCO (Dec. 16) - It took three years to achieve, aided in part by the collapse of such onetime competitors as Foodline.com, but OpenTable ...
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November 27, 2002 - 1to1 Magazine
Union Square remembers patrons' favorite foods, and then some
In the fine-dining segment of the restaurant industry, as well as many other service businesses, the reservation process is both the first point of ...
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October 30, 2002 - Portland Press Herald
Suit yourself - and seat yourself - with an online reservation
Mainers who love both food and travel may find www.opentable.com to be just the ticket.
OpenTable allows diners to make reservations onl ...
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October 07, 2002 - Orlando Sentinal
Online Reservation Company Closes In On Millionth Diner
OpenTable Inc., a pioneer in online reservations service for the restaurant industry, recently surpassed the 1-million-diner mark through its OpenT ...
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September 15, 2002 - Washington Post
Sites to Behold
We've Scoured the Web for the Best Travel Pages, So You Don't Have To
Dining Guides/Reservations
• www.opentable.com
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August 21, 2002 - Contra Costa Times
It's easy to get a seat at OpenTable.com
I'VE GOT a dot-com success story that will fill your belly -- if not your 401(k). OpenTable.com, an online reservation system launched in 1999, is ...
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June 27, 2002 - WABC
Dinner Reservations Online
One of the hardest things to do in New York City is getting a dinner reservation at a hot restaurant. Unless you are a celebrity or can plan way in ...
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June 19, 2002 - Wall Street Journal
A Slump in Snooty Restaurants Makes It Easier to Pull Strings
THE HIGH-END restaurant business is in a slump, and that presents exclusive eateries with a new challenge: how to get you in the door without givin ...
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April 22, 2002 - Nations Restaurant News
Survey: Consumers reserved on reservations
Four-city study finds table bookings down, except in N.Y., as guests prefer walk-ins
San Francisco – A two-year, four-city survey of r ...
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February 01, 2002 - Restaurant Digest
OpenTable Diner Survey Reveals That Valentine's Day Dining is Recession-proof
76% Plan to Dine Out on Biggest Dining Day of the Year; 93% Plan to Spend as Much or More Money to Dine Out Than They Did Last Year
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January 01, 2002 - Total Food Service
Metro Diner Survey Finds Valentine's Day Recession Proof
Metro New York Restaurateurs concerned about the state of the local economy can take solace in the latest survey of restaurant diners. According to ...
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September 19, 2001 - Chicago Sun Times
Reserve Your Table Online
When it comes to making a restaurant reservation, are you tired of getting a busy signal? Frustrated by being put on hold? Fed up with having to ca ...
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July 08, 2001 - Washington Post
RIGHT CLICK
Listing more than 1,300 restaurants in 32 regions across the United States, OpenTable lets you compare availability and reserve tables without havi ...
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July 01, 2001 - PCWorld
Site to See: OpenTable.com
Whether you're booking dinner for 2 or for a party of 20, OpenTable's online reservation service makes it easy. You can choose from more than 1200 ...
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July 01, 2001 - Expedia Travels
Time Trials: A Table for Two.com
What’s easier: to make a restaurant reservation by dialing or clicking? We decided to find out by using four restaurant reservation websites ...
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April 17, 2001 - Town and Country
Online Service Makes Reservations
OpenTable, a free online reservations service, may help save the day. After registering online, you can search availability by restaurant name, nei ...
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March 24, 2001 - c|net News.com
The One to Watch
This week's One to Watch is a company that is banking on America's appetite for eating out. With a fresh round of funding to grow on, restau ...
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March 22, 2001 - Industry Standard
A High-Tech Maitre d'
OpenTable wants to use its electronic reservations books so restaurants can personalize a customer's dining experience.
Online restaurant re ...
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February 14, 2001 - Nations Restaurant News
OpenTable acquires ProHost and RSViP brands
Buying market share in foodservice segments outside its core fine-dining niche and expanding the functionality of its product line, technology vend ...
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November 28, 2000 - internet.com
Reserve Online, Feed The Hungry
God wants you to make a reservation through OpenTable.
OK, that's a slight exaggeration. But representatives at San Francisco's Glide ...
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November 27, 2000 - USNews and World Report
Best of the Web
Robinson Crusoe had Friday. Lewis and Clark had Sacagawea. You probably don't have your own personal Web guide, so we've spent countless hours onli ...
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November 12, 2000 - USA Today
Dining à la Web
So you want to partake in the Net-to-food revolution? Step 1: Surf over to OpenTable.com. Step 2: Select your city and restaurant. Step 3: Register ...
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November 08, 2000 - Las Vegas Sun
LV Resort Installing Customer Tracking System
The Venetian announced plans to install a resort-wide software system that will allow the resort to develop marketing campaigns based on each guest ...
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October 31, 2000 - USA Today
OpenTable: the dot-com Survivor
San Francisco restaurant reservations Web site OpenTable just landed $43 million in venture funding.
Forget the tech stock crash. San Franci ...
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October 26, 2000 - Red Herring
OpenTable Claims Victory In Food Fight
OpenTable is making an advance reservation to be the last one standing in the online restaurant reservation business. At a time when many Internet ...
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October 01, 2000 - Infoworld
The InfoWorld EBusiness 100
Who is leading the charge online? InfoWorld editors take a look at companies that are innovating e-business. We looked for companies that used tech ...
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August 06, 2000 - The New York Times
If the Maitre D' Won't Get You a Table, Try Your PC
So you find yourself in Manhattan for a long weekend when suddenly, on Friday afternoon, you are overcome by a desire for a world-class meal. Why n ...
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August 03, 2000 - The San Diego Union-Tribune
A Table At Local Eateries Is Just A Click Away
Diners in San Diego can get a coveted table at a favorite restaurant without having to wait on hold, thanks to a new online reservation system call ...
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June 01, 2000 - The Atlanta Journal and Constitution
OpenTable.com serves up restaurant reservations
OpenTable.com, a San Francisco-based company, has opened an Atlanta office and plans to launch its real-time online restaurant reservations network ...
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May 22, 2000 - Nations Restaurant News
OpenTable seeks hotel usage, traffic from consumer reviews
OpenTable.com sources said OTConcierge gives concierges the ability to make, cancel, modify and manage multiple reservations from a single Web page ...
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May 20, 2000 - Fast Company
A Quiet Table in the Back, Please
Working in Internet Time means having precious little time to prepare home-cooked meals. In fact, it means having barely enough time to make a rese ...
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May 19, 2000 - Houston Chronicle
E-Reservations Hit Bistros In Houston
OpenTable.com's benefit to restaurants is more than a jiffy new way to book reservations. "If a customer likes Table 14, if he likes to be waited o ...
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May 18, 2000 - Investor's Business Daily
Go To Web For Hot Reservations
"We do everything though OpenTable.com," said George Knowles, assistant director of food and beverages for San Francisco's tony Campton Place. "Wha ...
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May 15, 2000 - Upside Today
Upside Hot 100
We look for companies that are likely to withstand the test of
time, not just their IPOs....
For the third year, Upside's editors are putt ...
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May 12, 2000 - Washington Post
WWW.WORTHIT; Dot-Com Dining
Rather not wait on hold as a maitre d' flips through a reservation book? OpenTable (www.opentable.com) including the Washington area, transfers the ...
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May 01, 2000 - Restaurant Hospitality
Rising Stars: Class of 2000
Why he's rising: Templeton's company is only a year and one-half old, but his notion of combining a consumer-friendly
real-time Internet dining re ...
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April 15, 2000 - Internet World
Company to Watch: OpenTable.com
OpenTable.com has a funding pedigree that matches its ambitions.
When Adam Thompson, a sales rep for OpenTable.com, walks into a restaurant, ...
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March 13, 2000 - c|net News.com
AOL, Open Table Strike Marketing Deal
In a deal to be announced tomorrow, OpenTable.com and America Online are teaming up to allow customers to book restaurant reservations over AOL's Digi ...
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March 10, 2000 - Internet VC Watch
OpenTable.com Serves Up a Better Reservation System
While many people have learned to log on for airline tickets and hotel reservations, the restaurant industry has been slow to come to the table. No ...
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March 06, 2000 - Network World
OpenTable
Given that the dot.com landscape is littered with junk food these days, OpenTable.com stands out like a gourmet meal.
A San Francisco-based ...
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March 01, 2000 - Wine Enthusiast
"Got a Table?"
Picture this Scenario: You are sitting at your desk contemplating where you will have dinner during your upcoming business trip to New York…o ...
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February 21, 2000 - USA Today
Retailers, dot-coms team up Bricks, clicks fix mix and share tricks
Zagat Survey, the leading dining guide, linked with online restaurant reservations firm OpenTable.com. The two companies will develop a co-branded ...
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February 18, 2000 - Reuters
AmEx invests in restaurant reservation Web site
American Express said on Friday it invested in OpenTable.com, a private firm that enables diners to make restaurant reservations online.
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February 17, 2000 - San Francisco Chronicle
Your Table is Ready
Bay Area Restaurants Join the Net Set by Offering Free Reservations Online.
In a town where you can do everything but your laundry ever ...
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January 26, 2000 - The New York Times
NYToday.com to offer Local dinner reservations
The online entertainment guide, owned by the New York Times Co., and OpenTable.com today announced a marketing agreement to create a cobranded Web ...
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January 12, 2000 - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Online Reservations Gain Supporters
At Avenue One, they've thrown away their reservation book. In its place at the host stand, owner Arnie Millan has installed a touch-screen computer ...
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January 08, 2000 - Red Herring
OpenTable dines out on $10 million
Redherring.com, January 08, 2000
What's harder for an Internet CEO, finding $10 million in funding or getting a reservation at the hottest re ...
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January 01, 2000 - Bon Appetit
Reservations in a Double-Click
Get off hold with the hostess at Chez We'll-Be-With-You-in-a-Moment, and log onto www.opentable.com, a website that's hooked up to the electronic r ...
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December 16, 1999 - Reuters
Away On Business: A Short Cut to the Table
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A business dinner for six at a client's favorite restaurant in a distant city?
Business travelers in the United Stat ...
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December 07, 1999 - Wired News
E-Biz Lends A Helping Hand
San Francisco diners who make reservations online automatically donate a holiday meal to a needy person through OpenTable.com
Notoriously ...
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December 01, 1999 - c|net News.com
OpenTable dining service adding Chicago, Seattle
The San Francisco-based start-up, which offers an online reservation system for restaurants in select cities, tomorrow will expand its services to ...
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December 01, 1999 - CIO WebBusiness
RSVP
WHEN CHUCK TEMPLETON'S wife scrambled a few years ago to make dinner reservations for visiting relatives, he was struck by an idea. Why not allow p ...
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November 14, 1999 - San Francisco Examiner
High Tech on the Menu: Restaurant Owners Use New Technology to Boost Business
What's happening in Traci Des Jardins' restaurant - beyond the usual culinary feats that keep diners flocking to Jardiniere - has surprised even th ...
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November 12, 1999 - Wall Street Journal
Table Talk
Want to improve your chances of getting into that impossibly "In" restaurant on your next vacation? Below are a few tips from experts in the travel ...
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November 08, 1999 - Crain's New York Business
Restaurant Deal
OpenTable.com and Ark Restaurants Corp. formed a partnership to make Ark the first restaurant group in Manhattan to offer real-time Internet reserv ...
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October 18, 1999 - Chicago Tribune
Firm Serves Diners On-Line Reservations
Chuck Templeton has worked in the restaurant business as a waiter, bus boy, bartender and waitstaff manager
Now he ...
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October 13, 1999 - San Jose Business Journal
E&O Trading Co. plugged into new reservation system
In addition to getting reservations from it, Mr. Broude says, OpenTable.com has helped increase business, which last month was up 178 percent over ...
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August 25, 1999 - San Jose Mercury News
Meal reservations online better than holding phone
Tired of searching for just the right restaurant? Frustrated by spending time on hold to make a reservation? And steamed, after finally getting thr ...
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August 23, 1999 - Red Herring
Feed the beast
Redherring.com, August 23, 1999
Your intrepid Catch of the Day reporter lives to serve. Mostly. He also lives to find out about new ser ...
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August 18, 1999 - San Francisco Chronicle
What's New: Snag a Table From Cyberspace
After it happened to hotels and airlines, restaurants couldn't be far behind. We're talking about on-line reservations.
Last week OpenTa ...
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July 14, 1999 - San Francisco Chronicle
A Great Restaurant Evolution Might be Just Around the Corner
It's 6 p.m. on a Friday and you want to go to dinner with a couple of friends. But this is the Bay Area, where last-minute restaurant reservations ...
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