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Business Wars Daily

Eating Away at OpenTable’s Monopoly

Business Wars Daily

Audible

Business, Business News, News, Daily News

4.6717 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2018

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Today is Friday, November 2, and we’re looking at Open Table vs. Resy and Reserve

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Thank you. From Wondry, I'm David Brown, and this is Business Wars Daily on this Friday, November 2nd.

1:09.4

Who knew the restaurant reservation business was so cutthroat?

1:13.5

OpenTable has been the default restaurant reservations app for two decades.

1:17.7

By last year, the company owned by Priceline was seeding more than 23 million diners a month worldwide.

1:24.0

But suddenly last year, two upstarts started making inroads into open tables territory,

1:30.4

Reserve, and Resi. Both are geared toward trendy restaurants in major cities. They'll help you get

1:36.4

a table at restaurants foodies love. A recent analysis by the online publication, Recode,

1:42.2

showed that although it is still much smaller than Open Table,

1:45.9

Rezi is gaining on its more established competitor among newer, hipper restaurants.

1:50.8

But first, a quick primer on how reservation apps work.

1:54.6

The restaurants themselves bear the brunt of the costs.

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