I measured when impossible-to-book restaurants release their tables
Watches hard-to-book restaurants around the clock and pings you the second a table opens.
TableFriend measured ten thousand reservation openings at hard-to-book restaurants and found each one runs on its own daily clock rather than one universal magic hour — one famous restaurant releases 50 to 65 tables at 5pm Pacific every single day. It also tracks how long an opening survives: about three minutes at a busy Brooklyn spot versus nearly four days at a high-end tasting room. The product watches a chosen restaurant continuously at roughly 90-second resolution and alerts you the moment a table appears; it's free.
What holds up
- +Free, and watches one restaurant continuously at about 90-second resolution
- +Publishes its own methodology and sample size: 1,885 first-sightings, ≥200 checks over 14 days
- +Retracted two of its own headline findings after an internal audit caught measurement artifacts
Mind the limits
- −Clean findings rely on densely-monitored venues — lightly-watched restaurants were excluded
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