Only two days after a major competitor in the on-line restaurant reservations arena filed for bankruptcy, iSeatz.com announced expansion agreements with London-based Toptable.co.uk and Canadian-based letsgofordinner.com. These partnership agreements increase iSeatz.com’s global reservation capability and strengthen iSeatz.com’s position as the premier provider of on-line restaurant reservations.
Upon implementation, iSeatz.com will become the first on-line reservation service to provide access to restaurants in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and France.
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iSeatz.com is currently in 24 markets across the United States, and is expanding into approximately five new cities each month. The restaurant reservation network targets diners and hotel concierges offering quick and easy service. Users can search for reservations by city, availability or restaurant name. In addition, iSeatz is free to diners and concierges. Restaurants can sign up on-line for the web-based service and pay only $2 per person, per reservation.
The new partnerships with Toptable.co.uk and letsgofordinner.com mean that diners in Canada, France and the United Kingdom can book stateside reservations on-line. In turn, iSeatz.com users in the United States can now save the cost and trouble of time-consuming phone calls when heading north or overseas.
“The partnerships with Toptable.co.uk and letsgofordinner.com are the next steps in our plan to provide a global on-line reservation solution,” said Kenneth Purcell, president and CEO of iSeatz.com. “As the industry becomes more consolidated, on-line reservation providers will need to be able to reach across borders to fully service the consumer,” he said.
Toptable.co.uk provides reservations for over 800 top restaurants throughout the United Kingdom and France, including many of the finest restaurants in London and Paris. Letsgofordinner.com provides access to over 200 restaurants in Canada’s top cities. Combined with iSeatz.com’s current roster of restaurants, the three sites deliver more than 1,500 restaurants to consumers via the Internet.
iSeatz.com was founded in 1999 and provides on-line reservations for restaurants in the following U.S. markets: Austin, Atlanta, Boston, Burlington, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Lake Tahoe, Los Angeles, Nashville, New Orleans, New York, Providence, Raleigh, Reno, San Antonio, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington D.C.; however, any restaurant, hotel concierge or diner across the country can immediately join the service at www.iseatz.com.
