Patent ID: 7904334

Claim:
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: a registration module configured to obtain information about users via the website, and to register the users to user accounts on the website; a request module configured to present an interface to a user via the website through which user requests are received for incentives for dining at restaurants corresponding to one or more user selected restaurant characteristics; an incentive module configured to concomitantly present to a user via the website, in response to receipt of a user request for incentives through the interface, a plurality of incentives for dining at any of a set of two or more restaurants that correspond to the one or more user selected restaurant characteristics included in the received user request for incentives, 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.