Yeah, that makes sense. I can see how adding any other types of rewards would make it hard to manage your tables/turns, but strictly from a consumer point of view it would be nice :-)
I'll have to stick to my other approach, which is to eat often enough at a couple of places that they know me and will make room for me on short notice.
Bob
Originally Posted by
ConciergeMike
...And to bounce another poster's idea around a little bit regarding using the points to "buy" an inaccessible table or something to that effect: those 100 points that go to your account are the $1 fee the restaurant pays to have the reservation processed by OT. If you look, the reward structure will reflect that math. Having said that, the idea of having reward tables a la airline seats is likely something that GM's and managment teams would reject because it adds a layer of complexity to yielding the restaurant for the night. Restaurants pay that $1 per booked table to fund the points system, but they also pay a pretty hefty monthly access. One nameless fine-dining GM I know (whom I send tons of tables to) summed up the OT fees for me: "It's an uncomfortably high number that I wouldn't even release to you, Mike."