Patent ID: 7904334
Filing Date: 2011-03-08
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented system for reducing excess capacity for one or more restaurants that experience periods of peak demands and periods of non-peak demands and for collecting information about at least one user, the system comprising: a server configured to execute computer program modules corresponding to a website, the computer program modules comprising: wherein the incentives are subject to restrictions, wherein the incentive module is configured to provide the incentives with restrictions specifying valid dates and/or times that correspond to non-peak demand periods of the restaurants associated with the incentives to incentivize dining at the restaurants during non-peak demand, and wherein the incentive module is configured such that responsive to a first restaurant of the set of restaurants having a different non-peak demand period than a second restaurant of the set of restaurants the incentive module concomitantly presents to the user via the website a first incentive associated with the first restaurant that is subject to different restrictions than a second incentive associated with the second restaurant; and a storing module configured to manage storage of the information obtained by the registration module about the users.