USA Today reports that the popular restaurant reservation application OpenTable has developed a new feature that allows users to reserve a time at grocery stores and restaurants offering takeout. The intent of this feature is to reduce crowding and therefore limit the community spread of the coronavirus. The date of launch for this feature is TBD but is expected to be very soon.
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, we see an opportunity to help our restaurant partners pivot to takeout, delivery and storefront business models, so we put a team of engineers together and built this in less than a week…
Joseph Essas, CTO of OpenTable