Is it wrong that I think this is a pretty good idea, and the response kinda funny?
http://www.brianmayer.com/2014/07/how-i-...for-a-day/
Short-version: Tech guy in San Francisco got the idea to call up fancy restaurants, make reservations, and then make an app selling those reservations. People went apeshit on twitter and in the comments.
He explains himself in the above post, and it made sense to me, but people are going insane in the comments. It made me laugh, because the only people mad about this are the kind of people who eat in high status expensive restaurants in San Francisco, but don't want to pay any extra for it. If reservations are a limited commodity, why not monetize them? His model won't scale in it's present form, but the level of hate amuses me.
http://www.brianmayer.com/2014/07/how-i-...for-a-day/
Short-version: Tech guy in San Francisco got the idea to call up fancy restaurants, make reservations, and then make an app selling those reservations. People went apeshit on twitter and in the comments.
He explains himself in the above post, and it made sense to me, but people are going insane in the comments. It made me laugh, because the only people mad about this are the kind of people who eat in high status expensive restaurants in San Francisco, but don't want to pay any extra for it. If reservations are a limited commodity, why not monetize them? His model won't scale in it's present form, but the level of hate amuses me.
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