For context on this, Gothamist recently posted this article about a company that "pre-books" reservations at hard to get restaurants. Customers pay $1,000/year for the privilege and then $45/$90 on top for especially hard to get reservations.
In other words, companies are starting to farm restaurant reservations to sell them, similar to the way that the market for event tickets has been corrupted.
Thank you for this! I read the entire article waiting for "Ok, so why do bots book all these restaurants. Be nice if the author had pointed out the economics behind it.