My husband booked a reservation for us, when we all dress up and show up, guess what the restaurant closed, it suppose to be a private dining, it only open with reservation. We were pissed. Never ever again use open table again.
I've been using Open Table for a number of years now and had not used it for a while now, because of covid and rarely going out since 2020. I am very disappointed that now we feel free to go out to dinner and find all of the points we had accumulated were expired! Do you have any idea how long it took to try to get to the next reward level? We were almost there! They promise bigger rewards the longer you wait to use points, but then they take them away! I should have just used the $10 option, but who knew covid would happen? They should have suspended deleting points ~ they should have understood what we were all dealing with these last 2 years! Open Table, you s@@!
Used open table to make a booking. Received a confirmation via email. On arrival restaurant did not have a booking for us. Told opentable. They said Sorry for confusion. Will get restaurant to amend their records'. Notice how open tables failure to do their only reason for existence is not grounds for a real apology to a visiting tourist. They seem to think that incompetence on their part is fine.
I have use the service almost 100 times to reserve. It works fine, sometimes the venue will call to confirm, usually no problem at all. On the other hand, I am unable to redeem the points. I live in a smaller city with only a few dozen restaurants on opentable and they accept reservations but do not allow users to redeem points or use gift certificates at any of those restaurants. I need to go to another city to redeem. It is even worse, as there are multiple steps and complications to redeem a certificates. 1) you must log on and request the certificate. 2) you must find the email response which might be in your spam folder 3) You must choose a restaurant which accepts the coupon, and 95% do not accept them 4) you must print out the coupon, and once you do it is only good at that restaurant and can not be changed. 5) I have not been able to use the coupon, but I hear that restaurants do not treat customers well when the coupon is used. UGH
I ended up paying for my meal without the gift card. Because the restaurant could not find a listing of the gift card.
I asked customer service, at open table, last week about how to precede so this situation would not occur.
And now I am writing areview about how bad opentable is.
I made a reservation through Open Table over a week in advance for a Valentines Day dinner. I received several confirmation requests from Open Table including a text. All of which I responded to positively. We arrived just prior to our reserved time only to find the restaurant had no idea we were coming. I had to resort to my smart phone to show the confirmation details from Open Table. To top it all off I receive an email from Open Table indicating we never showed for our reservation. And yes, I had already double checked the restaurant and the address. I will never use this service again.
We had a subpar experience at wildfire restaurant. After our dinner open table sent us a review request email. We shared our thoughts and felt our dinner and experience warranted the 1 star rating. We checked today to see if wildfire replied and found Open Table edited our review and gave the restaurant 4 stars. Total BS. If reviews are not honest they have no value. Sad.
We booked a date night off of "open table" because of the menu shown on "open table" and review. Once we arrived at the restaurant "Revue" the menu was nothing like it was shown on the open table website. So far off that we almost walked out. Opentable.com needs to be up to date or get off the internet. Everyone goes to the internet these days so this happening is absolutely ridiculous. I won't use this website again for reservations because I can't trust them now!
I used the app to schedule a reservation at the Olive Garden in Puyallup, Wa for myself and a few friends. The employees had never even heard of Opentable. After sometime the manager was able to get the issue straightened out but then they couldn't honor it because they were so busy. I had wait in line like the rest. If I have to call and verbally confirm a reservation then I may as well just not use the app and schedule it over the phone.
Reserved a restaurant on OpenTable. Later attempted to "Cancel" the reservation. Got a "Thank you for confirming" message from OT. Tried again. Same result. Later received a message regarding my failure to appear for the reservation. Sigh. Obviously OT has a glitch. Regardless, next time I'll bypass OT and call or message the restaurant direct. OT is supposed to be a convenience app, not a hassle.
Answer: I don't know, but I do know that Open Table gets $1 from the restaurant for each person on the reservation. So they make $8 for a party of 8, but give a (puny) $1 to the person booking it. Good point to bring up with them.
OpenTable has a rating of 1.3 stars from 314 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.