mattshafferHP wrote:My hopes for the next menu (no pun intended) are that they can be a little more consistent ( I went on consecutive nights with vastly different results) and that they can keep the salt levels down. I will probably give it a shot on one night, of course it will probably be from someone else's reservation as I still awaiting my first invitation even though I signed up practically the first day.
Darren72 wrote:They didn't sell out in 2 second; all seats were in someone's cart in 2 seconds. The difference is important because a lot of seats go into someone's cart but don't end up being bought. In fact, Nick just posted on Faceplace that there are still seats available, to be released from someone's cart soon.
Darren72 wrote:I think the disbelief that a lot of people express about how quickly the tables get grabbed up (not necessarily here) reflects, in part, a mental miscalculation, is you will, of how many people live in, and travel to, Chicago. Next sold something on the order of 100 tables today. There are tens of thousands of well-to-do people who want to eat at this restaurant and have jobs that allow them to sit in front of a computer and wait for the tickets to go on sale. Their Faceplace page as over 12,000 "likes". Heck, it's pretty hard to get a Saturday night table at any hot new restaurant. A few years ago the Cubs would sell out the season -- a couple of million tickets -- in a couple of hours. Frankly, I think they should just raise their prices.
Darren72 wrote:Frankly, I think they should just raise their prices.
hoppy2468 wrote:I will most likely die before I get a table at this EffiN restaurant. And, of course, I'll be at work Monday with a computer that only has IE....
TCK wrote:Keep trying. I'm testing an auto-refresh script/plugin I wrote with a friend and we've gotten the calendar 4 times so far but have been slow to click the available times.
CrazyC wrote:TCK wrote:Keep trying. I'm testing an auto-refresh script/plugin I wrote with a friend and we've gotten the calendar 4 times so far but have been slow to click the available times.
Hey TCK, was your auto refresh script the one that they mentioned on FB?
From Next's FB page:
someone is auto refreshing at a stupid rate... give us a minute
theskinnyduck wrote:Darren72 wrote:Frankly, I think they should just raise their prices.
A professor at Kellogg did offer to create a mechanism that increases Next's revenue, including increasing their prices. But Nick replied (see the comment section of the said blog):
[...] Since we have universally high demand right now, the question is why don’t we flatten the pricing towards the top of what the market will pay? There are a few reasons for this, mostly having to do with customer service and the hospitality industry. Simply, we never want to invert the value proposition so that customers are paying a premium that is disproportionate to the amount of food / quality of service they receive. Right now we have it as a great bargain for those who can buy tickets. Ideally, we keep it a great value and stay full. [...]
CrazyC wrote:
Hey TCK, was your auto refresh script the one that they mentioned on FB?
From Next's FB page:
someone is auto refreshing at a stupid rate... give us a minute