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To be fair, OpenTable is a stupidly easy and convenient site for reserving spots at more than 13,000 restaurants nationwide, and your writer has employed its free services on more than one occasion to avoid having to speak directly with the front-of-the-house plebes (also, racking up points rocks). Couple OpenTable's accessibility with Yelp's massive database of restaurant listings and you've pretty much got a golden partnership. (We only hope that restaurants will cross-reference their OpenTable reservations with the evil Yelp reviewers featured on Yelp Yack. "Sorry crispy bacon wench, we're all booked for the evening.")
Yelp users will be able to book OpenTable reservations directly through the Yelp review page, which is even simpler if they use the same e-mail address for both accounts -- which will then earn them OpenTable points toward rebates. This is potentially epic for Yelp, which saw 32 million unique visitors last month, and a blow to review competitors Chowhound and Citysearch. Now OpenTable just needs to step up its game to include more restaurants in its database. [From: LA Times]
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Subscribe to commentsVaylonJun 6th 2010 12:27PM
It's plebs.
SueJun 6th 2010 3:37PM
I have used "open table" and found it to be very unreliable....it will tell you nothing is available but calling the restaurant directly I found..yes indeed there was availablity. I like the human aspect.
haroldJun 6th 2010 4:32PM
Becca and all the others:
Yelp and Open Table are the domains of AOL tom foolery, I wrote a nice response to Becca using the reply button and got a note from service@blogsmith notifying me of my response to Becca but without a confirmation capability enclosed. So again, I say to Becca and the others, not to worry about this shil game we are responding too--Smart Restrauteurs will ignore this snake oil venture.
steveJun 6th 2010 4:41PM
until just now, i'd never heard of 'yelp' and 'open table'. i'm thinking i was better off not knowing about those "services." we americans will buy anything offered to us. P T Barnum was right.
haroldJun 6th 2010 4:48PM
I pledge to never read another Duplicitious AOL article posing as if it were news, specifically if I detect YELP or the pimp mathew Zuras has anything to do with it.