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With the increasing trend of restaurants not taking reservations, a service is really needed that would allow you to show up when your table is ready. This service would employ "reservers" who live close to the local restaurant. These people would show up on your behalf and "reserve" your table for
you. There could even be a "beeper" holding area like the popular FEDEX pickup boxes for those restaurants that issue a "your table is ready" beeper. The box would have many compartments with combination locks. You would be given your compartment number, combination lock code, and wait time upon making your reservation.
Since we are in the internet age, the "reservers" will use the wireless web to communicate wait time, etc. data in real time to a dynamic web page.
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Online restaurant reservations. "Hundreds of tables. No waiting." [egnor, Aug 03 2000, last modified Oct 04 2004]
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why not eliminate the middleman? you cue up on the net for a restaurant, and then your PalmPilot or whatever beeps five minutes before your table's ready. If you're not there by the time it *is* ready, you lose it. I think it'd be hard to find some well dressed couple (if your reservation was for two) to wait convincingly in line for you; surely they'd have better things to do, like taking your reservation for themselves, no? |
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The Palm idea is a good one if the restaurant will actually take reservations. The main frustration I have is with the resaurants that will not take reservations at all. |
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This service is available in Washington, D.C. They'll have someone with a cell phone stand in line for you and call you when it's your turn. |
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I understand they don't do much of a trade in restaurants, but rather in waiting at the Department of Motor Vehicles, for tickets to special events, and (this being Washington D.C.) for admission to congressional hearings. |
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I was just at the D.C. DMV on Friday. I'd have paid for
someone to stand in line for me. |
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I knew a guy who picked a number from the dispenser at a passport office an hour before it closed. He didn't wait in line, though. He left and went about his business and came back before the number was called and sold it for $10 to someone who had arrived too late to pick a number. |
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