Seattle Based Urban Spoon Sees Big Growth In Reservations

While OpenTable is still by far the giant in the world of table reservation apps, Seattle based Urban Spoon is making great strides in a territory that once exclusively belonged to OpenTable.

UrbanSpoon has been known since it’s inception for it’s slot machine style interface for serving up great restaurant suggestions. When you open up the Urban Spoon app on your Android or iPhone you shake it and the three bars rotate like a slot machine. They eventually land on a restaurant recommendation.

UrbanSpoon reported to Geekwire that last month they sat one million people using their reservation system. That’s not a lot considering San Francisco based OpenTable claims they’ve sat over 280 million people since coming online in 1999. Opentable also claims to have 25,000 restaurants in their system.

Urban Spoon on the other hand says they have restaurants in the thousands, the San Francisco Chronicle says that Urban Spoon has 4,000 restaurants in it’s network.

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UrbanSpoon is looking to beef up their Rezbook component which is the reservation system. Rezbook is designed to help restaurant owners manage reservations in new ways. Rezbook will soon allow diners to book reservations as far out as 60 days.

“We were basically nowhere a year ago, so this has been an exciting milestone for us,” said Kara Nortman, who oversees Urbanspoon for its parent company, the media conglomerate IAC, told the San Francisco Chronicle.

source: Geekwire

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