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Donderdag 26 oktober lanceren wij het nieuwe Rosso concept spectaculair met een optreden van Saxophonation Live Jazz Dj Tobias Camman & Nicolay on Sax ft. mc Dan Stezo Vrijdag 27 oktober en Zaterdag 28 oktober zorgt DJ Ro voor spetterend muzikaal entertainment (Ken je haar nog van de haringparty afgelopen juni......) #rossorotterdam #ro_zensisters #tobiascamman #entertainment #comfortfood RESERVEER ALVAST ONLINE www.rossorotterdam.nl #seatme

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Chair dreams @designmuseumdanmark #design #chairlove #seatme (at Designmuseum Danmark)

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We will now be using SeatMe to take reservations! Please check out our profile and download the app!! 

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Yelp is to buy the online reservation service, SeatMe. The popular site will acquire the facility for a cool $12.7 million. That would be money well spent.

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Blanca, which serves a 25-plus-course tasting menu in a converted garage in Bushwick, will start taking online reservations tomorrow, Chef Carlo Mirarchi tells me via text message. Bookings will be available 30 days in advance at 11am, starting tomorrow. Previously, prospective diners had to call on the first of the month and battle a barrage of busy signals (there was only one phone line).

This is most definitely a STRONG BUY and a GOOD DEAL, as the telephone reservations system was my only real criticism of the restaurant in my four star review for Bloomberg News. "Hopefully this won't be as much of a nightmare as the phones," Mirarchi added in his text.

Shout out to Eater's Greg Morabito and The Pink Pig for first spotting the Blanca SeatMe page about a month ago. That reservations page, which was pulled after the Eater report, is back up now.

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Veranderingen bij IENS

We hebben veel veranderingen bij IENS gelanceerd de afgelopen 3 weken. We begonnen twee weken terug met de IENS DinerDeals bij Lab111, sinds de lancering bijna uitverkocht.

Om de betrouwbaarheid van de beoordelingen te verbeteren introduceerden we vorige week sterren voor proevers, een nieuw gewogen gemiddelde voor restaurants en een nieuw soort mening. Een groot succes, op de dag van de lancering kregen we een record aantal recensies over restaurants, bijna 1.200: een verdubbeling van het vorige record tijdens de DinerDagen.

En vandaag zijn we een samenwerking met Seatme gestart, waarmee we in 1 klap marktleider op het gebied van online reserveren zijn geworden in Nederland, met 1.300 restaurants die reserveerbaar zijn via IENS, Seatme en hun eigen website.

Eenvandaag over recensies op IENS Bekijk de video in andere formaten.

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Saison's $641 Menu With 5% Reservation Fee

The Restaurant at Meadowood still has California's most expensive menu, at over $900 per person with wine pairings. But Saison in San Francisco is suddenly a strong second-place finisher, with 5% reservation fees to boot. 

Dinner for two at Saison's Chef's Counter, after tax, mandatory service and optional beverage pairings, will now cost $1,281. That's a $285 or 29% jump from the March price of $996 for couples. Solo diners pay $641 with pairings, a $143 increase from $498. 

Those are pretty big hikes. And here's what's more interesting: Those prices reflect a reservation processing fee charged by SeatMe.com. 

Allow us to explain: Chef Joshua Skenes' two-Michelin starred spot has switched to a "pre-paid ticket" system, similar to Next in Chicago or Brooklyn Fare in New York. This change was reported by the San Francisco Chronicle and others in late February. 

In the past few days, The Price Hike has obtained a little more clarity on pricing. The weeknight dinner menu remains at $198 for 16-courses, with a wine pairing at $128. Weekend guests (like at Next in Chicago) will pay $50 more for the same menu, and $20 more for the wine pairing. Call it a "rush hour" fee of sorts. 

Those who wish to dine at the four-person chef's counter will pay $298 for 20-22 courses, any day of the week, with optional pairings at $188. 

The full price of dinner, service and tax, is paid for, in advance, through SeatMe.com. The website charges a 5% processing fee, according to a spokesperson for Saison. That means a part of two purchasing the $298 Counter Menu will pay $800 upfront, including $36 in fees (about the cost of dinner at Mission Chinese). 

So much for the old theory that taking the receptionist out of the equation helps keep the cost of dinner down. 

A technical point here: Wine pairings are purchased at the restaurant, not online, which means they aren't subject to SeatMe.com's 5% fee. Of course, the pairings are levied with an 18% service charge and local sales tax. 

Saison should be commended for allowing guests to purchase wines at the restaurant, not just because it cuts down on the processing fee, but because it gives the consumer the option of deciding how much booze to drink on the night of the reservation, as opposed to a month in advance. We at The Price Hike believe that's a GOOD THING. 

Update: Michele Mandell of SeatMe.com notified us in an e.mail that the processing fee is used to pay for credit card company fees; SeatMe.com does not making any money off the individual transactions. The details are slightly more technical, and we’ll clarify in a separate post early next week, just so we’re not inundating people with Saison coverage.)