" OpenTable, Inc. is the leading provider of Internet-enabled customer relationship management (CRM), marketing, yield management and reservations solutions to the $500 billion global foodservice industry. The company’s proprietary electronic reservation book (ERB) automatically builds a comprehensive customer database that enables restaurants to manage yields, communicate with diners more efficiently, enhance customer service, and conduct highly targeted on- and off-line marketing campaigns. "
OpenTable introduced real-time online reservations to the restaurant industry in 1998, and now has products that deliver the conveniences of 24/7 online reservations to hotel concierges (OTConcierge) and administrative professionals (OTAdmin). Dining consumers can tap into the OpenTable network and make reservations online at www.opentable.com, and also through the company’s many distribution and content partners including America Online, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune and The Los Angeles Times. OpenTable’s customers include leading hotel chains and more than 1400 of the nation’s top restaurants. "

" Founded in 1984 as Transmedia Network Inc., iDine Rewards Network Inc. is the leading provider of dining rewards programs ... the only one with a dining program that is truly national in scope. Recently we have expanded our rewards programs to include Hotel Rewards by iDine, rewarding members whenever they reserve stays through iDine at select hotels across the country.
In addition to operating iDine Prime, our own dining and hotel program where members save up to 20% at participating restaurants and 15% at hotels, iDine also operates numerous other privately and co-branded dining programs where members earn a different reward, be it airline miles, loyalty "points" or cash back. Our partners include nine major airlines, many of the nation's largest bankcard issuers, numerous key players in the loyalty marketing industry, and dozens of prominent corporations... " more about iDine

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