GiftCertificates.com and OpenTable.com Partner to Provide Restaurant Gift Certificates Online
March 21, 2000
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NEW YORK, NY and SAN FRANCISCO, CA (March 21, 2000) - In a move that creates the Internet’s most comprehensive dining transaction site, GiftCertificates.com, the leading online provider of branded gift certificates, and OpenTable.com, the leader in online restaurant reservations, today announced the availability of gift certificates at many of the nation’s finest restaurants at www.opentable.com. Beginning today, gift certificates are a part of the personalized fine dining engine available to consumers from OpenTable.com, the world’s largest real-time restaurant reservation network.
Gift certificates are now available on the restaurant profile pages of many OpenTable.com restaurants in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Washington, DC and Seattle. GiftCertificates.com and OpenTable.com plan to increase their online offering of dining gift certificates as both companies expand their reach nationwide in the coming year. GiftCertificates.com expects the popularity of ‘experiential’ giving to continue to grow, as evidenced by the continued popularity of restaurant, health spa, salon, golf lesson, and movie theater gift certificates being purchased online.
“We’re excited about adding gift certificates to our host of online restaurant offerings,” said Sid Gorham, OpenTable.com’s vice president of business development. “OpenTable.com is a proponent of helping people make the most of their time online. GiftCertificates.com has enabled us to offer restaurants and consumers even more ways to communicate with each other, and complete transactions, via the Internet,” he said.
“OpenTable.com has developed a great way for people to learn about restaurants and plan an evening out,” said Larry Nichter, vice president of merchant development at GiftCertificates.com. “Now, OpenTable.com members will be able to share their favorite restaurants with friends and business associates by buying gift certificates online. GiftCertifcates.com is pleased to partner with the leaders in online reservations to create the Internet’s most comprehensive restaurant transaction site.”
About OpenTable.com
OpenTable.com, the online restaurant reservation network, has 150 employees and is based in San Francisco, California, with offices in New York, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Seattle and Washington DC. OpenTable.com is an Internet company dedicated to providing dining consumers with the best possible reservation experience, and restaurants with the best available customer management tools. OpenTable.com has partnered with restaurants from An American Restaurant Group, Ark Restaurants Corp., California Café Restaurant Corp., the Lark Creek Group, Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises, Inc., Real Restaurant Group, Restaurants Unlimited, and Union Square Hospitality Group. OpenTable.com is backed by leading Venture Capital firms including Impact Venture Partners, Benchmark Capital, BrainStorm Ventures and Prescient Capital. For more information about OpenTable.com or its online restaurant reservation network visit http://www.opentable.com or call 1.800.OPENTABLE.
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