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(And if there are restaurants who value just &quot;regulars&quot; over customers off the street &#8212; well, that seems a very limited business strategy.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/05\/opentable-diner-anonymity\/?mbid=social_gplus'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/7laAtIHL_P1MaAltHXHAN05ZoKAYSaD65esId408Lx-ANSYmO6IKXergRqg3let7Bnj7f6xRv4dY3cH-VX4D65pWzQ4B0_KCTfUheV6N=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/05\/opentable-diner-anonymity\/?mbid=social_gplus'>Thanks, OpenTable, But I Like Being an Anonymous Diner<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/CELxHEwiLPx'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps it is my own personal perspective, but I have no problem with (a) the convenience of booking through OpenTable plus (b) restaurants knowing if I am a potential regular customer. For me, at least, it&#39;s all about convenience. (And if there are restaurants who value just &quot;regulars&quot; over customers off the street &#8212; well, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/24\/the-amazing-evils-of-restaurants-knowing-about-you.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The amazing evils of restaurants knowing about you&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42566,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/13\/if-shatner-shows-up-at-my-table-i-quit.html","url_meta":{"origin":51258,"position":0},"title":"If Shatner shows up at my table, I quit.","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 13-Jun-14 12:25pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I use OpenTable a lot, Priceline not at all. 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