Ordering service competitive Urbanspoon launch new features

It is understood that in order to cope with the increasingly fierce competition from foreign food service, OpenTable has just launched a new service for restaurant owners, and rival Urbanspoon soon prepared a new feature for diners. This "right now" feature can help you look at the "availability" of restaurants found on Urbanspoon, provide real-time viewing support for both scheduled and unscheduled diners, and provide more convenient and accurate ordering information for your users.

If a restaurant is very popular, it is likely that when you want to eat the seats have been fully booked, and there are a lot of non-subscribers waiting. Right now can help you visualize how much time you have to wait for your meal, and how many people are ahead of you before that. At the same time, it can also be an advantage for restaurant owners to have empty seats available to diners who are looking for a place to eat.

This is a good feature for users who often go to a restaurant, because sometimes you are not concerned with the question of "eating sushi or Sichuan cuisine", but rather "whether I can eat it immediately". Urbanspoon has updated its iOS apps at the same time, diners can use the empty space as a selection of the restaurant's search criteria, and the existing number of vacancies will be displayed in the "Existing vacancy" column.

This kind of reservation service, which is popular abroad, may be different from what we often call "ordering", which is more like adding a reservation function to a restaurant enquiry service. However, this real-time view of whether there is a function of the seat or to borrow our reference.