Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Paying for Your Restaurant Reservations
Your chances of getting a dinner reservation at Republique at 7:30 this Saturday night are somewhere between slim and none, unless your name is George Clooney. Or, unless you’re willing to pay up. New smartphone apps will take your money in exchange for hard-to-get seats at some of L.A.’s top restaurants.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readYour chances of getting a dinner reservation at Republique at 7:30 this Saturday night are somewhere between slim and none, unless your name is George Clooney. Or, unless you’re willing to pay up. New smartphone apps will take your money in exchange for hard-to-get seats at some of L.A.’s top restaurants. And that’s not the only way technology is changing the restaurant business. We get up to speed on all the latest innovations.
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- 9:17L.A.’s Historic Preservation Casualties
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- 41:55Paying for Your Restaurant ReservationsYou’re reading this
The full episode
5 of 5A Very White Oscars, French Speech Laws, and the Business of Pot- 0:00Oscar’s Diversity Problem
- 9:17L.A.’s Historic Preservation Casualties
- 16:55French Comedian Arrested for Facebook Post (And Other Web News)
- 26:28“Ganjapreneurs” and the Case to Reclassify Pot
- 41:55Paying for Your Restaurant ReservationsYou’re reading this