How is TableZap™ different from some of the other Restaurant Reservation systems like Open Table?
Open Table is primarily a Restaurant Portal site where you can go to search for open tables at all of the restaurants in a certain geographic area. We actually use it ourselves sometimes and think it’s a great system. While we have many similarities with their backend system, we feel that our business model is better suited to the current economic situation and the current needs of diners who use the web to book restaurant reservations. In most cases, a diner will go online to visit your website before they book a reservation. Instead of requiring them to go to a separate website (such as Open Table or Restaurant Diary, etc) we allow them to book a reservation right then on your site. Isn’t that what you want anyway? Why risk all of your marketing dollars by taking a visitor AWAY from your site and then grouping them in with dozens or even hundreds of other choices? Doesn’t make much sense to us. We also have a very LOW cost of entry. Our setup fees are under $500 and we charge a flat
