Do they actually want our business?
a bigger pain in the posteriorWith eatery owners howling to anyone still listening that they need every dime they can get after the pandemic, you’d think they’d go out of their way to let you in. Or at least to make it easy, right?, such as Casa Cipriani, Casa Cruz and several dining rooms at Fifth Avenue’s new Aman hotel. They’re all “private” and off-limits — unless you’re a club member, or a hotel guest dropping $3,000 a night.
I mean normal-seeming restaurants that make reserving tougher than getting a yellow cab in the rain at rush hour. On OpenTable, Resy, Tock, SevenRooms and the restaurants’ own reservations portals, rush hour seems to be all the time. Restaurants are blocking out just about any time a normal person wants to eat, even when plenty of seats are available. The strategy is to book masochists at 5 p.m. and try to draw later eaters closer to the desired date.observed to the Wall Street Journal, “Sometimes on OpenTable and Resy, you don’t have the tables, but if you call the restaurant, very often you can find a way to be on the waiting list or to get a table.”on Delancey Street, a cheery recording tells you to email.
Even small restaurants like Masalawala & Sons in Brooklyn have their customers jumping through hoops to get through the door. If only it were that easy. A swelling number of places require us to turn over our credit card data first — from brand-new Sake No Hana on the Bowery to the
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