February 11, 2008
Cincinnati Enquirer
Your table is open online
By Stepfanie Romine
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October 21, 2007
Chicago Tribune
Travel Insider
By James Gilden
Dining reservations just a click away
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October 5, 2007
Charlotte Business Journal
OpenTable Has No Reservations About Expanding Here
By Ashley M. London
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September 20, 2007
Minneapolis-St. Paul Pioneer Press
7 good reasons to reserve online
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August 28, 2007
LA Times
OpenTable: Free, easy restaurant reservations
From the latimes.com Daily Travel Deal Blog
By Sara Benson
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August 18, 2007
Indianapolis Business Journal
Local restaurants joining online reservation trend - Part II
By Jennifer Whitson
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August 18, 2007
Indianapolis Business Journal
Local restaurants joining online reservation trend - Part I
By Jennifer Whitson
High-tech systems tool up customer service
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August 8, 2007
Raleigh News & Observer
Fine dining a click away - Part II
By Sue Stock
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August 8, 2007
Raleigh News & Observer
Fine dining a click away - Part I
By Sue Stock
57 Triangle restaurants among OpenTable's 7,000
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August 7, 2007
WCBS
OpenTable.com: Best Way to Get a Restaurant Reservation
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August 5, 2007
Chicago Suburban News
Surf-and-click seating gives around-the-clock access
By Jessica Young
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July 18, 2007
Honolulu Star Bulletin
Go online to dine - Part I
By Katherine Nichols
Making reservations on the Web takes the stress out of finding a place to eat
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July 18, 2007
Honolulu Star Bulletin
Go online to dine - Part II
By Katherine Nichols
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July 18, 2007
Honolulu Star Bulletin
Go online to dine - Part III
By Katherine Nichols
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July 12, 2007
The Arizona Republic
Web helps restaurants track patrons' needs - Part I
By Richard Ruelas
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July 12, 2007
The Arizona Republic
Web helps restaurants track patrons' needs - Part II
By Richard Ruelas
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June 18, 2007
New York Times
Restaurant Reservations Go Online - Part III
By Katie Hafner
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June 18, 2007
New York Times
Restaurant Reservations Go Online - Part I
By Katie Hafner
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June 18, 2007
New York Times
Restaurant Reservations Go Online - Part II
By Katie Hafner
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March 31, 2007
Wall Street Journal
How to Get the Ungettable Table - Part II
By Katy McLaughlin & Sarah Nassauer
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March 31, 2007
Wall Street Journal
How to Get the Ungettable Table - Part III
By Katy McLaughlin & Sarah Nassauer
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March 31, 2007
Wall Street Journal
How to Get the Ungettable Table - Part I
By Katy McLaughlin & Sarah Nassauer
Who would have thought the chance to spend $200 on dinner could become such a competition? With nabbing a reservation at some restaurants next to impossible, we set out to crack the code.
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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
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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
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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
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February 15, 2007
nbc4.com
Avoid Long Restaurant Waiting Lists
Restaurant Experts Give Insider Tips
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September 8, 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
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September 8, 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
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September 1, 2006
Orlando Business Journal
More diners clicking onto online reservation service
47 local restaurants now using booking system
By Bob Mervine
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August 31, 2006
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Quick Bites
Book a night on the 'Net
By Jeff Rusnak
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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
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July 1, 2006
Santé Magazine
Restaurant Evolution - Part II
Managers Focus on Quality Products and Services
By Sharon McDonnell
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July 1, 2006
Santé Magazine
Restaurant Evolution - Part III
Managers Focus on Quality Products and Services
By Sharon McDonnell
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July 1, 2006
Santé Magazine
Restaurant Evolution - Part I
Managers Focus on Quality Products and Services
By Sharon McDonnell
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July 1, 2006
Santé Magazine
Restaurant Evolution - Part IV
Managers Focus on Quality Products and Services
By Sharon McDonnell
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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
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June 2, 2006
San Francisco Chronicle
Want a table? How about 5 or 9:30?
From Between Meals by Michael Bauer
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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
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May 11, 2006
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 the Mayo Clinic and OpenTable, a restaurant reservation service.
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May 7, 2006
Associated Press
Dining out Restaurants more receptive to children on Mother's Day
NEW YORK (AP)
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May 3, 2006
Tucson Citizen
E-reservations
Restaurant owners using such services find a reduction in frustration, costs
By JENNY HUNSPERGER
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May 1, 2006
Women's Health
31 GREAT WEB SITES - Save Time, Money and Stress!
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May 1, 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
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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
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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
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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
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April 5, 2006
Newsday
A cook's tour of useful Internet sites
By Erica Marcus
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March 3, 2006
Skyway News
Click for reservations
Fine Dining Made Easier
By Tammy Sproule Kaplan
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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.
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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.
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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.
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January 27, 2006
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Make reservations in a snap with a click onto dining site
By Douglas Trattner
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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
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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
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January 25, 2006
Akron Beacon Journal
Reservations a click away
Vaccaro's Trattoria joins growing Internet service
By Jane Snow
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January 1, 2006
Chicago Tribune
Travel Insider
By James Gilden
Dining reservations just a click away
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November 24, 2005
Orange County Register
No Need to Bribe a Maitre D'
By Anne Valdespino
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November 2, 2005
Indianapolis Star
Click click, yum yum
A table for two is only a Web site away.
By Kelly Kendall
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November 1, 2005
Santé Magazine
The Internet is changing dining-out behavior. Are you prepared?
This article was written by OpenTable CEO
Thomas Layton.
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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
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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
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May 19, 2005
Chicago Tribune
Chicagoans are good tippers, noon teetotalers
By Phil Vettel
Tribune restaurant critic
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May 18, 2005
Washington Post
Well, We Try To Eat Right
By Judith M. Havemann
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May 18, 2005
Boston Globe
Reservations are just a few mouse clicks away
By Alison Arnett, Globe Staff
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May 18, 2005
Boston Globe
Diners offer some tasty tips
By Alison Arnett
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May 18, 2005
San Francisco Chronicle
Dining Survey Taps Likes, Dislikes
By Carol Ness
Chronicle Staff Writer
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May 3, 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 7, 2005
The Journal News.com
Reservations for Valentine's Day Dinner Are Going Fast
By Barbara Waller
THE JOURNAL NEWS
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January 9, 2005
Bradenton Herald
Haute-tech cuisine
Online restaurant reservation company targets Tampa Bay
By Tilde Herrera
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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
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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
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November 10, 2004
San Francisco Chronicle
WHAT'S NEW
RESTAURANTS / A gift of dinner out
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September 1, 2004
DM News
OpenTable Helps Restaurants Keep Tables Full
by Mickey Alam Khan
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August 20, 2004
San Francisco Chronicle
Bay Area Dining Habits - Chronicle OpenTable Survey
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August 20, 2004
San Francisco Chronicle
Food Lovers Not Fazed By Paying Top Dollar
by Carol Ness
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August 20, 2004
San Francisco Chronicle
A Renewed Appetite For Splashy Restaurants
by Carol Ness
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August 9, 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 cost] is a drop in the
bucket,"says Kent. "[OpenTable's]
definitely driving sales."
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August 1, 2004
San Diego Magazine
Side Dish
by Patricia Walsh
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May 23, 2004
New York Times
Click and Eat on the Road (excerpt)
by Bob Tedeschi
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May 19, 2004
The San Diego Channel
Make Restaurant Reservations Online
Web Site Lets Diners Request Table, Server, Menu Items
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May 9, 2004
Washington Post
The Expert
Reservation Maven
Jennifer Roe, age not disclosed
Maitre d', DC Coast Restaurant
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May 1, 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 applications, OpenTable, is an online reservation system that enables managers to build a detailed customer database.
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February 1, 2004
Slammed Magazine
Reality of Virtual Reservations
by Marisa Guthrie
Online reservation systems are helping restaurants organize their floors, streamline their organization and create invaluable customer databases. And the convenience factor for diners cannot be underestimated. Online databases let diners search by city, type of cuisine or availability and make reservations even when you are closed or the line is busy. Welcome to the age of the virtual reservation book.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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September 3, 2003
Washington Times
High-tech devices put more options on diners' plates
Technology is fast becoming a top item on restaurant menus.
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July 27, 2003
Washington Post
Wonder Why You're Simmering?; Turnover, Atmosphere Shape Policies on Making Diners Wait
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June 2, 2003
Charleston Regional Business Journal
Local restaurants enlist web and software to help boost bottom line
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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.
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February 19, 2003
San Francisco Chronicle
Sometimes, a Mouse Can be a Restaurateur's Best Friend
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February 12, 2003
San Francisco Chronicle
Heavens to Betsy
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December 16, 2002
Nations Restaurant News
Reservation service surpasses millionth mark in high growth year
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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 contact with your customer and the best place to start your CRM effort.
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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.
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October 7, 2002
Orlando Sentinal
Online Reservation Company Closes In On Millionth Diner
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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
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August 21, 2002
Contra Costa Times
It's easy to get a seat at OpenTable.com
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June 27, 2002
WABC
Dinner Reservations Online
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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 giving the impression they actually want you.
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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
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February 1, 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 1, 2002
Total Food Service
Metro Diner Survey Finds Valentine’s Day Recession Proof
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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 call four to five places that can accommodate your party?
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July 8, 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 having to risk the dreadful rebuffs of maitre d's. Unlike other online restaurant sites, you don't have to wait minutes or hours for a reply, and there's no booking fee.
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July 1, 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 to book tables at seven leading San Francisco eateries on a few days notice. Bottom line: Just one site — OpenTable — is worth bookmarking.
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July 1, 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.
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May 1, 2001
Executive Circle Magazine
From Reservations to Tableside Ordering, Dining Goes High Tech
The advantages of online reservations are becoming clearer to many restaurants, but they are only a small part of the driving force for the success of OpenTable Inc., a leading provider of Internet-enabled customer relationship management solutions.
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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, neighborhood, cuisine or price. With a few clicks of the mouse, your reservation is complete and will be confirmed by e-mail.
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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.
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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.
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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 vendor OpenTable Inc. has acquired the ProHost table-management and RSViP reservations-administration software brands from Restaurant Solutions Group of Dallas, a division of Ez2get.com Inc.
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November 28, 2000
internet.com
Reserve Online, Feed The Hungry
God wants you to make a reservation through OpenTable.
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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 online to come up with a listing of the best online destinations.
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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 and book your table. Simple. But is it really better than picking up the phone? Yes, because you can not only book the reservation, but also find out instantly whether seats are available at your favorite dining spots, and at what time.
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November 8, 2000
Las Vegas Sun
LV Resort Installing Customer Tracking System
"OpenTable's (system) will not only simplify our operations and encourage our hotel and casino guests to dine on-property, it will help us enhance our service by enabling us to recognize each one of our guests as if they just stayed with us last week," said Michael French, the Venetian's senior vice president of operations.
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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.
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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 companies are shutting their doors for lack of continued venture funding, OpenTable just got a huge vote of confidence from brand-name VCs.
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October 1, 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 technology to enhance external customer or trading partner relationships, to revamp current business transactions using Internet-based technology, to reinvent the business model, or to create new market opportunities....Companies that seemed to be breaking new ground online.
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August 6, 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 not call Lespinasse, that temple of Francophile fantasies, where a bowl of soup (albeit with truffles) can set you back $35? Why not? Because in most cases, the next available table at one of the city’s few four-star restaurants may not become available until days, or even weeks, from now. But if you had bypassed the reservation desk and logged on to a Web site called OpenTable.com, you would have found that the impossible is sometimes possible: a table for two, available at 7:15p.m.
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August 3, 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 the online reservation system called OpenTable.com.
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June 1, 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 here this month. Atlanta is expected to become one of its top markets.
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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 -- a streamlined approach the company hopes will lead to more bookings for restaurant customers.
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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 reservation. That's why many of my friends have an appetite for OpenTable.com, a site that lets you tap into the electronic-reservation systems of more than 750 restaurants in 15 cities.
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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 on by Victor and if he likes to drink Scotch and water, we can put all that in the computer and use it to serve our customers better," said John Sheely, owner of the Riviera Grill. "That is a very powerful resource to have."
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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. "What's great is that you can't make any mistakes; there's no rubbing out names in a reservation book. And the system fits in with our fine dining image; it's very discreet and professional."
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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....
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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 traditionally phone-intensive business of dinner reservations to your computer keyboard.
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May 1, 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 reservation and table management system has caught on in a hurry.
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April 15, 2000
Internet World
Company to Watch: OpenTable.com
OpenTable.com has a funding pedigree that matches its ambitions.
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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 Digital City Web sites.
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March 10, 2000
Internet VC Watch
OpenTable.com Serves Up a Better Reservation System
Today, people are looking for a broader commerce model. No question, this is the way restaurants, consumers and businesses will want to manage reservations in the future.
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March 6, 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.
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March 1, 2000
Boston Globe
Boston.com to take online reservations
Boston.com, the Web site affiliated with The Boston Globe, has formed a strategic marketing and business partnership with OpenTable.com, a company that will soon allow consumers in Greater Boston to make reservations at many local restaurants over the Internet.
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March 1, 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…or maybe it’s San Francisco…or Chicago. You could take the time to thumb through some restaurant guides, if only you had them for those cities. Or, you could log on to OpenTable.com, a website that offers real-time online reservations at restaurants.
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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 Web site so consumers can make free online restaurant
reservations.
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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
In a town where you can do everything but your laundry over the Internet, making reservations by phone feels downright Victorian. Restaurants are catching up with the cyber age, offering free reservations on OpenTable.com.
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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 site.
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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 that checks for available seats and instantly confirms requests for reservations that arrive over the Internet.
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January 8, 2000
Red Herring
OpenTable dines out on $10 million
What's harder for an Internet CEO, finding $10 million in funding or getting a reservation at the hottest restaurant in town? For Chuck Templeton, there's no difference: he scored both.
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January 1, 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 reservation books at restaurants in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles and Seattle.
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December 16, 1999
Reuters
Away On Business: A Short Cut to the Table
A business dinner for six at a client's favorite restaurant in a distant city? Business travelers in the United states now have a new tool to arrange something like that even before leaving home, with an Internet connection and a few taps on the keyboard.
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December 7, 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.
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December 1, 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 Chicago and Seattle by opening offices in both areas, upping its presence to eight cities.
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December 1, 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 people to book tables the way they book airline tickets? Templeton turned his idea into OpenTable.com Inc., a restaurant reservation service based in San Francisco that allows people to book tables in real-time over the Internet.
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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 the chef.
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November 12, 1999
Wall Street Journal
Table Talk
Want to improve your chances if getting into that impossibly "in" restaurant on your next vacation?... Use the Internet. One site to try is OpenTable.com, that offers reservations at great restaurants like Fleur de Lys in San Francisco and Vong in Chicago.
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November 8, 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 reservations.
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October 18, 1999
Chicago Tribune
Firm Serves Diners On-Line Reservations
In August, OpenTable.com launched its network in the Bay area, and it has signed up a number of the best there.
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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 August 1998.
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October 6, 1999
BusinessWeek Online
A Better Welcome at Chic Eateries - via the Web
Getting into a good restaurant is an ego-crushing experience in cities with pretenses to fine cuisine. You have to be a supermodel or friend of the owner at some places on a Friday night. Assuming you can get through on the phone. Now, a Web service promises to even the playing field for ordinary mortals.
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August 25, 1999
San Jose Mercury News
Meal reservations online better than holding phone
Diners can book a table online, get instant confirmation, have notification sent via email to all members of their party, specify table preferences or dietary needs and get a map and driving directions. What's more, for diners, there's no charge to do any of this.
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August 23, 1999
Red Herring
Feed the beast
Your intrepid Catch of the Day reporter lives to serve. Mostly. He also lives to find out about new services that can make his own life easier.
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August 18, 1999
San Francisco Chronicle
What's New: Snag a Table From Cyberspace
Last week OpenTable.com launched an on-line San Francisco restaurant reservation service that has benefits for consumers and restaurants alike. Plus, it's free to consumers.
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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 are hard to come by. Which places will still have tables? Log on to the Web, do a search and snag a reservation at the new restaurant at the top of everyone's list.
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