Resy is winning newer, cooler restaurants away from OpenTable
For more than a decade, online restaurant reservations pioneer OpenTable was seemingly the only place you could go to book a table online. Now, in four years, its upstart rival Resy has managed to bite off some of OpenTable’s market share, particularly among newer and trendier restaurants.
Four-hundred New Yorkers are going to get their dinners for free this month
The reservation platform Resy is going full on Willy Wonka. They’ve just announced their first Golden Check Week (October 22-28) where 400 diners, who’ve booked their meal through Resy, will receive golden checks in their bill presenters at any of 20 participating restaurants in NYC. Their meals will then be entirely comped. That’s right, your entire meal will be free!
Free meals in NYC could be yours, but only with these golden checks
Resy, the hospitality tech company best known by consumers for the namesake reservations app, is kicking off their first ever Golden Check Week on Monday, October 22.. During the seven-day period, 400 golden checks will pop up at select Resy restaurants throughout the city.
OpenTable vs Resy: What’s the Best Way to Make a Reservation?
Our millennial-focused economy has blessed us with a plethora of apps (short for “applications”) that let you easily find and reserve a table at an eating establishment. But there are so many different ways to choose where to get your apps (short for “appetizers”), so let’s take a look at which software will do the best job of pairing you with a classy restaurant.
“Resy is an app for curated hospitality that encompasses design, the menu, and the service. We made sure that the space was designed to reflect every aspect.” - Shelly Lynch-Sparks
Resy CEO Ben Leventhal on Restaurant Tech’s Connected Future
Resy wants to solve the technical problems that frustrate the people running restaurants. Personalization is one thing, but the real value will be created by software platforms that talk to each other.
— Andrew Sheivachman
Earlier this month, superstar restaurateur Danny Meyer’s New York City-based Union Square Hospitality Group (USHG) announced it would move all of its restaurants over to online reservations platform Resy by early 2019.
Union Square Hospitality Group to Move All Reservations to Resy
One restaurant group switching from one tech provider to another doesn't exactly headline news make, but it does help us all understand a restaurant's priorities and what it wants from said tech vendors.
— Kristen Hawley
RESY LAUNCHES EXCLUSIVE PARTNERSHIP WITH DANNY MEYER’S UNION SQUARE HOSPITALITY GROUP
The Leading Hospitality Technology Platform Welcomes USHG’s Entire Portfolio of Restaurants, including New York City’s Untitled, Marta, and Gramercy Tavern
Dominique Crenn Partners with Resy for Women of Food Series
Chef Dominique Crenn is one of the culinary industry’s most influential chefs. Having a strong presence in the local community as a philanthropist and restauranteur, she’s also respected and admired in the international food scene and pioneer of the #metoo movement. Case in point: her ongoing partnership with Resy—a digital provider of restaurant reservations—that highlights female chefs.
