Why NYC’s Hottest Dining Reservations Will Stay Impossible to Score
A proposed law aimed at bots and scalpers who cater to rich and desperate restaurant fans isn't guaranteed to make getting a hot table easier.
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Photographer: Gary HeIs it worth dropping anywhere from $250 to as much as $1,000 just to get into a New York City restaurant?
The 30,000 people who have flocked to a service called Appointment Trader to buy reservations at some of the city’s hottest dining spots seemingly think so. Now, that practice is coming under threat from New York’s proposed Restaurant Reservation Anti-Piracy Act.