The midnight alarms, the credit card hacks, and the reservation drops that separate amateur eaters from the professionals.

As crowds continue to mob restaurants they see on social media, some businesses are turning to a more exclusive model to ...

It's one of the best restaurants in the country, and it's right here in Knoxville, Tennessee. J.C. Holdway was named among ...

Nowadays, booking a table at a restaurant is an extreme sport, where some join yearlong waitlists and others buy reservations from people reselling them for thousands of dollars. So it’s no surprise ...

Since President Donald Trump announced his takeover of the D.C. police force last week, restaurant reservations have dropped in the city by as much as 31 percent year over year for a single day, ...

President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard and federal agents to Washington, D.C., last week, has apparently been bad for the city’s restaurant business. According to new data from OpenTable, ...

Editor’s Note — In considering the data referenced in this story, it should be noted that the date on which 2024 Summer Restaurant Week began was roughly a week earlier than the starting date of 2025 ...

The Walt Disney World dining reservations system is down as The Beak and Barrel reservations are supposed to open. The system went down shortly before 6 a.m. on ...

The system went down shortly before 6 a.m. on Thursday, August 14, 2025. Guests are mostly met with error pages, like the one above, on both the Walt Disney World ...