OpenTable, the world’s main supplier of on-line restaurant reservations and a part of The Priceline Group (NASDAQ: PCLN), right now introduced it’s piloting OpenTable Tab, a brand new cost expertise that provides eating places a novel strategy to ship traditional hospitality. OpenTable Tab is at the moment out there at greater than 75 eating places in Los Angeles and will likely be launched in additional U.S. cities later this 12 months.
To expertise OpenTable Tab, diners merely faucet the Tab function after they guide their reservation at collaborating eating places. As soon as they’re on the restaurant and able to depart – or at any time throughout their meal – diners can let their server know they wish to put their meal on their OpenTable Tab after which rise up and go every time they’re prepared.
“Restaurant goers in LA like to be handled like regulars and actually worth a VIP expertise,” mentioned Catherine Porter, SVP of Technique and Enterprise Growth at OpenTable. “OpenTable Tab is designed to reinvent and simplify the way in which diners pay at eating places and improve the general eating expertise. By eradicating the cumbersome and time-consuming bank card swap, diners who use OpenTable Tab can concentrate on having fun with their incredible meal and our restaurant companions can concentrate on delivering superb hospitality.”
“Tab offers us a brand new strategy to simply course of funds from company,” added Amy Knoll Fraser, Proprietor of Redbird. “OpenTable continues to be an excellent associate for us, all the time innovating and providing new providers to raised accommodate our company.”
