by James Eling | Mar 29, 2018 | Delivery Hero, Just Eat, Menulog, Open Table
Disintermediation occurs when there is a decrease in the use or number of intermediaries between producers and consumers. Restaurant disintermediation is the decrease in the use of companies that exist between a restaurant and their consumers. Who are the Restaurant...
by James Eling | Sep 19, 2017 | Open Table, opentable
The NY Times is featuring a really interesting article by Stephanie Strom about the OpenTable business model and the changes that are occurring in the US online restaurant booking industry. It details how OpenTable started in 1998 with the vision of making online...
by James Eling | Apr 22, 2017 | Booking, CRM, Dimmi, online booking, online bookings, online reviews, Open Table, quandoo, Respak, Uncategorised
Online Restaurant Reservation Systems have seen continued growth and changes in 2017, with new entrants and some getting a lot quieter. We do a comparison of some of the big online Restaurant Reservation systems and go through the pros and cons of all of them. In...
by James Eling | Aug 27, 2016 | Dimmi, Eveve, Open Table, opentable, tripadvisor
Last month Dimmi Restaurant bookings data was released detailing the number of bookings made online with Dimmi. The figures only relate to Restaurants using Dimmi for their online bookings, which is only around 3,000 restaurants. which according to Ibisworld, has...
by James Eling | Apr 8, 2016 | online booking, online bookings, Open Table
The team are very excited to announce our first customer using Free Online Restaurant Booking Software. The software, which has been in use in Australia and New Zealand, has taken over 300,000 seats of bookings. It provides a view of the bookings for each day like a...
by James Eling | Dec 11, 2015 | Booking, Open Table
After almost 12 months in preparation, it finally appears that OpenTable Australia will start taking bookings in Australia. In September we wrote that OpenTable had announced the purchase of AS Digital. The launch, which is reported in Hospitality Magazine, is...
