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Behavioral & Folklore · weekly ban:medium tC

Fine dining reservation scarcity — OpenTable prime-slot availability

count of restaurants showing fully-booked/waitlist status for Friday-night prime slots in a top-10 metro

Feed detail
Measures
count of restaurants showing fully-booked/waitlist status for Friday-night prime slots in a top-10 metro
Source
opentable.com public restaurant availability search pages
Access
scrape-hostile
Cadence
weeklyupdates roughly weekly
Thesis
Prime-time reservation scarcity is a real-time read on high-end discretionary spend, ahead of BEA PCE releases
Maps to
restaurant discretionary spend, luxury consumer basket
Crowdedness
contested
Tier
tC
Ban-risk
ban:medium
Where this stands

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