Restaurant reservations have become the hot new scalping racket

Bots, scammers, line-sitters, and mercenaries have made it all but impossible to get a reservation directly from a restaurant in New York.
According to Adam Iscoe's piece in The New Yorker, snapping up a prime 8pm Friday table now requires shelling out scalper prices to internet 'mercenaries' who deploy bots to hoard reservations. — Read the rest
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