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opentable.com
Illinois
1 review
4 helpful votes
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This site is a scam
October 25, 2011

This site is a scam. It has given my computer a virus. Every time i log on to any food, hotel, car, travel site open table takes over and I can't get around it. STAY AWAY
It will not let you unsubscribe!

Date of experience: October 25, 2011
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Open Table is fine for people who live life like an "algorithm "... most people don't. Attempt to explain a particular restaurant reservation or change on Open Table is not an easy task! I notice that restaurants are allocating an amount of time you can use a table... this really is not acceptable. Open Table promote this table "allocation time" because it facilitates it's time schedule "algorithms". Restaurants using OpenTable exclusively have now lost the capacity to have a personal relationship with their clients. I have noticed that OpenTable links within restaurants websites are becoming the only way to reserve a table.Not all restaurant tables are equal, table preferences are no longer easily accessible to restaurant customers. I seriously will no longer use OpenTable... if I can't book direct with the restaurants, forget it.

Date of experience: June 6, 2021
Michigan
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I got a nasty email from open table saying I didn't keep my reservation. This was about an hour after I left the restaurant. Since the employee didn't click something or acknowledge something, OpenTable cake at me with attitude. Will not use again. I will just call the restaurant directly than be harrassed by a company like OpenTable

Date of experience: March 14, 2020
Texas
1 review
5 helpful votes
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The reservation worked fine, but they sent me an email accusing me of not showing up, and whining about how the restaurant had lost business. I did show up. We spent a bunch. Next time I will just phone the restaurant for a reservation, these people are very annoying.

Date of experience: July 11, 2016
Colorado
1 review
10 helpful votes
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Open Table Sucks.
November 7, 2020

For the third time, I have cancelled a reservation I made through open table online. I have the cancellation in my email. They sent me a nasty gram this morning that I did a no show, and unfortunately, there is nowhere to respond to them. Impossible to send them an email with proof, and of course, no human is around to take your call. I'm waiting for another app to appear and run them out of biz.

Date of experience: November 7, 2020
Oregon
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Well leave it to the techies to ruin a good thing. Open table no longer gives out checks and instead requires an electronic certificate that is only usable at a few restaurants not all of those where you can make reservations. I will stop using open table and start making the reservations myself again.

What a way to ruin a good system.

Good bye Open Table.

Date of experience: November 23, 2015
North Carolina
1 review
0 helpful votes
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This is the worst booking app on the planet; hands down; the app jumps all over the place and has no stability; seems like this would be an easy app to set u but open table rates as the worst app I have ever used

Date of experience: April 11, 2022
GB
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Booked with Open Table only to be told an hour before the reservation that it wasn't valid because the restaurant is actually closed. Huge disappoint and a ruined evening. Contact the restaurants directly, do not trust this website.

Date of experience: December 31, 2015
North Carolina
1 review
0 helpful votes
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The owners of Canyons in Blowing Rock sold recently & The Ridlgeline opened in its place.
My husband & I went there this morning for Sunday Brunch. No only were the drinks terrible and watered down, but we wound up walking out after an hour of waiting for our order.
Would not recommend at all!

Date of experience: June 24, 2018
Wisconsin
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Made a reservation for Macy's Walnut Room. Tried to cancel and their website would not let me cancel. No phone number or customer service email available, had to dispute charge on my credit card. Open Table must not understand what is going on in the world as it relates to Covid.

Date of experience: November 11, 2020
California
1 review
5 helpful votes
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All done there
July 22, 2019

This is the second time they've "expired" my points, apparently because it was 2 weeks past 1 year since I last booked anything there. 2,600 points, or $26 toward a meal. And where you originally received credit for booking automatically, they've changed the app so that you have to check a box to receive your points. This will be the last time I'll book through Opentable.

Hasta la vista, baby.

Date of experience: July 22, 2019
Illinois
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
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Open Table is sooooo convenient! It helps us make our restaurant selecting and reservations much simpler, and it has a huge list of great restaurants in our area, as compared to other sites that only have a few on their list. Plus, online reservations are so much quicker and easier than calling a loud restaurant where you can barely hear the person, or being put on hold forever!

Date of experience: August 12, 2013
Washington
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Worst customer service
October 12, 2018

Line & Lure in the ilaini casino has the worst customer service, 30 minutes to get drinks never mind that the waitress was asked 3 times and finally the manager and even he got it wrong. Salads sat on the kitchen shelf (yes we were watching) for over 20 minutes.

Date of experience: October 12, 2018
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I'm beginng to have serious reservations about OpenTable. They apparently suspended my account, because I have too many "no shows", according to them. To my knowledge I have never had a "no show", much less four! Still, they keep sending me advertisement emails.

I tried several times to write them with the following text, but they make it supremely difficult so to do.

"Why do you keep sending me these emails? Especially since you won't answer my emailed disputes as to why I've been suspended. I request particulars, because, to my knowledge, I have NEVER walked a reservation."

Maybe somebody at OpenTable will contact me, now that I've gone public, lol.

John Wofford

Date of experience: February 1, 2015
GB
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I booked dinner for two to celebrate my girlfriends Birthday, using OpenTable.

Had it confirmed, turned up at the restaurant, to find the restaurant didn't even open on the night we booked.

OT responded to my email, by cancelling my booking. Don't risk a terrible night, book direct with restaurants.

Date of experience: February 8, 2016
Canada
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Very disappointed
February 3, 2018

We made a reservation this afternoon on OpenTable and was confirmed at 16:10. We left home about 17:55 to make sure we can arrive before our reservation time 18:30. On our way to the restaurant, at 18:03, we received a call from Baton Rouge telling us that there is no place for us, the reservation is not valid.
From 16:10 to 18:03, almost 2 hours, if there is no place, why nobody inform us so we can have time to look for another restaurant. Very disappointed. Will stay away from OpenTable and Baton Rouge.

Date of experience: February 3, 2018
Hawaii
2 reviews
3 helpful votes
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Scam!
April 15, 2019

I tried to use my OpenTable dining rewards in a restaurant and both of the rewards cards were declined! After contacting OpenTable customer service several times, I received no answer. I lost my points! Being a concierge of the Ritz-Carlton on Maui, one of the top tourist destinations in the world, I am hoping that someone has a better idea of a reservation system online. Customer service at OpenTable sucks, and they charged the restaurants in arm and a leg in order to use their system! They came up with this bogus idea that I would have a concierge account, to make it easier for me to make reservations. However, they do not answer any of my emails or any of my grievances... And believe me, there are many. I have never seen a site so fallible in my entire life.

Date of experience: April 15, 2019
Washington
1 review
1 helpful vote
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The site sucks
April 29, 2013

The site sucks. They steal from you literally. Those points are a lie. They conveniently don't award them or wait until too much time has elapsed to then say you are past the 14 days required to make an inquiry. They don't respond and have awful customer service. Avoid them. There are new entrants like urban spoon and seatme now available.

Date of experience: April 29, 2013
Massachusetts
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Buries bad reviews
April 22, 2016

First, I've used Open Table a few times to find restaurants and book reservations without any issues.

My problem with OT stems from the fact that once I had a particularly terrible experience at one those restaurants and left a review on OT it was buried! It's no where to be seen and I'm sure my 1 star rating for it wasn't used in any calculation for it's current 4.5+ stars rating.

So, in short, they're in bed with the restaurants they serve. The rating are artificially inflated and can't be trusted and they actively censor bad reviews for the restaurants.

Sad.

Date of experience: April 22, 2016
California
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I hate this website
July 18, 2013

I hate this website. It's such a waste of time. They always block reservations from 6pm to 8pm, only to find out the restaurant isn't even booked up. Often, there are plenty of tables open but I guess restaurants want to leave the busiest times open for walk ins. I get that restaurants don't want to have to reserve tables for people who won't show up, but why does me calling you vs. submitting an online request make me more of a reliable customer? I don't get it.

Date of experience: January 10, 2013

Overview

OpenTable has a rating of 1.3 stars from 319 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with OpenTable most frequently mention customer service, gift card and phone number. OpenTable ranks 60th among Restaurant Reviews sites.

service
51
value
39
shipping
7
returns
8
quality
29