Yelp wants to be about more than just reviews — it may have no other choice. But speaking of “a valuable resource,” whether Yelp is still your go-to review site or not, it’s a massive database of ...

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A standard subscription to the service costs a restaurant $99/month and SeatMe does not charge the restaurant any fees per cover. It’s lower pricing structure can be taken as a direct effort to seduce ...

Yelp has just acquired SeatMe, an OpenTable-like service which enables customers to make restaurant reservations online. This news comes less than two weeks after Yelp announced its entrance into the ...

New filters let users search restaurant listings based on available reservation dates and times, as well as takeout and delivery options. Yelp has updated its search capabilities with new filters that ...

Yesterday Yelp announced that logged in users can now check availability and book a reservation via OpenTable directly on Yelp’s website, even without an OpenTable account. A handy extra feature is ...

Today Yelp announced its acquisition of SeatMe Inc., a company that runs a Web- and iPad app-based reservation service for restaurants and other nightlife-related businesses. SeatMe does exactly what ...

TripAdvisor last week consumed LaFourchette to make a big move into online reservations against OpenTable, and Google gobbled up Appetas to battle with Yelp and raise its game with restaurants looking ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. Yelp can ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Building a platform to do the job of 1 million analysts While we agree that with Yelp Reservation can potentially drive more ...

The answers may surprise you. For a long time, reservations were regarded as the gateway to the types of fine-dining restaurants that require months-long planning. Only one Bay Area chef made the cut ...