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 | Nov 10, 2016 | Booking, online bookings, opentable
Multiple articles today are reporting that Priceline will scale back their investment and expansion for it’s online booking service, OpenTable as the number of OpenTable alternatives increase and limit growth rates out of the United States. OpenTable is the...
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 3, 2016 | Booking, Dimmi, opentable, Respak, tripadvisor
Skift is reporting that Priceline, the owner of OpenTable, may be looking to acquire TripAdvisor. Dennis Schall writes that Priceline has talked about it’s unappreciated competitive moat, and an acquisition of TripAdvisor would make a big statement and widen...
by James Eling | Apr 13, 2015 | Booking, Dimmi, Open Table, opentable, restaurant
OpenTable Australia has yet to start approaching restauants as fair as we know, but we have known for a while that OpenTable has been planning on opening up in Australia, and we have also seen that Lisa Hasen, the former BDM at Dimmi has been appointed to as the VP...
by Marketing 4 Restaurants | Mar 13, 2015 | Booking, Dimmi, opentable
A recent Linkedin search, showed that Lisa Hasen has left Dimmi to become the Vice President, APAC for Open Table. Lisa has extensive experience at OpenTable, having worked her way up from beingan Account Executive in 2007 to District Director, NorCal and Hawaii from...