![]() ![]() When a restaurant signs up for Yelp Reservations, they will have access to many of the same SeatMe features "including the ability to accept invites and alert customers with confirmations." Yelp Reservations will be managed by participating restaurants via a widget and through their Yelp business profiles. Below is a chart from the SeatMe website that shows how SeatMe compares to reservation giant OpenTable: A standard subscription to SeatMe costs a restaurant $99/month and SeatMe does not charge any set up fees or fees per cover. It's lower pricing structure can be taken as a direct effort to seduce restaurants away from OpenTable, which has been repeatedly criticized for its high costs to restaurants. A December blog post describing benefits of using SeatMe also calls out the opportunity to buy Yelp ads: "Pairing SeatMe with a Yelp ads package to drive even more traffic." Interestingly, Yelp was once a partner of OpenTable.Ī standard subscription to the service costs a restaurant $99/month and SeatMe does not charge the restaurant any fees per cover. ![]() The system comprises online reservation making, table and wait list management, and guest information tracking capabilities. TechCrunch reports that today Yelp is launching Yelp Reservations, an online reservation service restaurants can use free of charge "as long as the restaurant has 'claimed' its Yelp profile page."Ī visit to the Yelp SeatMe website reveals how the reservation system works. ![]() Looks like the famously unreliable crowd-sourced review site Yelp is ready to make good on its 2013 acquisition of online reservation service SeatMe. ![]()
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