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Appointment Trader is a website that allows you to buy and sell restaurant reservations for all of London's most sought-after tables. Food and drink very much not included.
Alex Eisler's biggest sale to date was for $1,358 for an omakase restaurant in Boston, he told Business Insider.
Touts are buying up reservations to sell on to desperate diners for extortionate prices. A website called Appointment Trader allows customers to bid on bookings.
They've got no reservations to do whatever it takes for a reservation. Dining out in New York City, especially at a high-profile eatery, has become a cutthroat endeavor as the demand for tables aggressively outweighs the supply.
Alex Eisler, a sophomore student at Brown University who studies applied math and computer science, told the New Yorker that he made $70,000 reselling reservations last year.