Originally Posted by chgoeditor

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.