Imagine having found that perfect place to spend the week-end at and then darn you cannot get your food inside the door of Ze Restaurant of the moment, what a downer.
If you visit New York or live there or fly or drive to The Hamptons for the week-end (like Friday to Monday), TableXchange tells us ‘Your table is waiting‘.
The service works more or less like a restaurant reservation marketplace. People who hold reservations and do not plan to use them, list it on TableXchange for a small profit.
Those in need of that special table, check the list of availabilities and when and if they find what they were looking for, proceed to the checkout and pay the finder’s fee.
Shortly after they should receive an e-mail telling them who they are on the reservation list.
I hope no one gets too creative with the names used.
This should appeal to the Finance crowd.
I have not tried TableXchange so I cannot rate it.
Have you?
Do you know of similar services in the US and abroad?
Is it As Good as It Gets?
First read about it on Springwise
A place where it could apply: An American in Paris, Chef Daniel Rose got Spring
It’s interesting isn’t it. Seems quite expensive – $30 a table … ? I guess that’s a small price though if people are desperate to get in. I wonder if that would take off in other major cities.