[ethbr1]

Agreed that competition is one of my major annoyances with big cities.

Once it gets big enough that "good" restaurants require a reservation any day of the week, and those reservations are difficult to get, I'm moving somewhere else.

Why work to fight to win... what you can just enjoy somewhere else?

[fragmede]

To be a total snob about it, it's because the "what" is better in some places. If the best restaurant in town is a Cheesecake Factory or Olive Garden, and there are no reservations; hey, you do you.

[ethbr1]

Fair!

But there's a pretty big swath of cities between {Cheesecake Factory} and {Manhattan}.

[fragmede]

Yeah, Manhattan sounds crazy. I was reading this whole article about this platform for NYC restaurant reservations, where people who book reservations at a restaurant can turn around and sell those reservations on the platform.