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style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="open-table-reservations-facebook" border="0" alt="open-table-reservations-facebook" align="left" src="http://besthubris.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/opentablereservationsfacebook1.jpg" width="351" height="162" /></a> I’ve used Open Table for restaurant reservations for a long time.&#160; It is just so much more convenient to peruse around for what restaurant will fit your time and date and type of food rather than calling them one at a time to see if anyone has the ability to accommodate you.&#160; As an added bonus, I’ve never had a reservation lost, most likely because the reservations go right into the restaurant&#8217;s reservation computer system.</p><p>But, I noticed this today and can’t help but wonder why this would in any way be a necessary thing.&#160; Unless you were inviting people, do they really need to see that you have a reservation somewhere?&#160;</p><p>Now, posting your review after dining at the restaurant might be a useful thing, but this up front posting doesn’t really make sense to me, especially at the level that there might need to be a dedicated button to handle such a once in a year posting as opposed to some sort of manual posting.</p><p>The question then is this:&#160; Is Open Table – and several other businesses – trying too hard to somehow be linked / connected to social media sites like <a
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