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Old May 12, 2011 | 2:38 pm
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Originally Posted by naiel
Given that Next is significantly cheaper (and perhaps easier to get into), I'll definitely give it a try next time I'm in Chicago.
No offense, but you just gave me a huge laugh for the day. Next has something like 15,000 people on its email list and has been releasing a few tables a day. Back when they'd only notified a small portion of their mailing list that tables were available, they were getting something like 20,000 hits a day--and tables snatched up within a second of being released--on their website. After clicking refresh on my browser literally hundreds of times, I gave up and decided that it just wasn't worth it. In comparison, it took me about 8 minutes to get a reservation at Alinea on my choice of dates.
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