You're all alone on a business trip, staying in a city you've never visited. You've heard the local food is quite good, but you're too tired to find it. Many of them have been criticized for their inability to synchronize online requests with traditional ones.
Users can log on and check the availability of tables for any given night.
The result, says Susan Lally, the company's vice president of engineering, is that customers use the service the same way they might use Travelocity or Expedia to check the availability of a flight.