I don’t see how that’s a problem. The restaurant should easily be able to tell if reservations are changing parties often and how often they are being canceled last minute. The restaurant themselves could start charging a reservation fee, not let reservations switch parties, not accept reservations at all, etc.
IMO, such a law is classic government overreach. I’d much rather they go after other types of scalping, like event tickets, game consoles, GPUs.
This is very low in the world of government overreach. It doesn’t stop restaurants from having reservations, it doesn’t stop 3rd party companies from coordinating the reservations, it doesn’t even stop charging for reservations… all it does is stop 3rd party companies selling reservations from a restaurant without their consent.
These companies add nothing of value to consumers or restaurants and seek to harm both as they increase the cost of getting a reservation and cause people to have a certain disdain for the restaurant.
Sure the restaurants could make the process of getting reservations harder and more expensive with regular audits and authentications but this is literally what the government is for, nobody is harmed with these laws except scalpers
You’re so close to seeing the point. Yes indeed that the restaurant should be able to see if reservations are being changed around and be involved in those decisions, such as being able to restrict how they’re transferred and charging fees to do so. Your first paragraph is what is needed and what the law is trying to get these third parties to do.
No, we definitely differ on what the point is. If restaurants allow reservations to be transferred like this, they are implicitly allowing this type of transaction. The only thing I feel like is needed, is for restaurants to know this type of thing exists. They already have the ability to curtail it if they need to.
I don’t see how that’s a problem. The restaurant should easily be able to tell if reservations are changing parties often and how often they are being canceled last minute. The restaurant themselves could start charging a reservation fee, not let reservations switch parties, not accept reservations at all, etc.
IMO, such a law is classic government overreach. I’d much rather they go after other types of scalping, like event tickets, game consoles, GPUs.
This is very low in the world of government overreach. It doesn’t stop restaurants from having reservations, it doesn’t stop 3rd party companies from coordinating the reservations, it doesn’t even stop charging for reservations… all it does is stop 3rd party companies selling reservations from a restaurant without their consent.
These companies add nothing of value to consumers or restaurants and seek to harm both as they increase the cost of getting a reservation and cause people to have a certain disdain for the restaurant.
Sure the restaurants could make the process of getting reservations harder and more expensive with regular audits and authentications but this is literally what the government is for, nobody is harmed with these laws except scalpers
You’re so close to seeing the point. Yes indeed that the restaurant should be able to see if reservations are being changed around and be involved in those decisions, such as being able to restrict how they’re transferred and charging fees to do so. Your first paragraph is what is needed and what the law is trying to get these third parties to do.
No, we definitely differ on what the point is. If restaurants allow reservations to be transferred like this, they are implicitly allowing this type of transaction. The only thing I feel like is needed, is for restaurants to know this type of thing exists. They already have the ability to curtail it if they need to.