RESTAURANT RESERVATION SYSTEM AND METHOD

摘要

A mobile App enables customers and restaurants to communicate with one another to negotiate reduced costs for meals at specified reservation times when the restaurant is otherwise light for business. As an example, the App enables the customer to specify either a percentage reduction on the total bill or a budget price for the entire meal. The restaurant may either accept the offer or provide counteroffers. Once agreed upon, if the customer is a no show, the customer compensates the restaurant for operational costs in saving the table by paying a previously agreed upon penalty fee.

主权项

1. A computer implemented method for enabling negotiations between a customer and a restaurant to make reservations for a meal to be provided at a discount, comprising the steps of:
providing from a customer interface to a restaurant interface through a network a proposal for said customer to dine at said restaurant at a specified time for a specified discount; providing from said restaurant interface to said customer interface through said network either an acceptance of said proposal or a counteroffer to said proposal; and permitting said customer and said restaurant to agree to said proposal or said counteroffer using either said customer interface or said restaurant interface, said permitting step securing a reservation time for said customer at said restaurant at an agreed time for an agreed discount.