Seated Dining App: How It Works, And My Experience

Thanks for sharing your experience with the Seated Dining App. It looks like a fantastic tool for booking and dining.

One thing that shocks me is how our country's top cities (NYC, SF and LA) have such crappy restaurants. Make no mistake, there are terrific restaurants in all three cities, but there are also terrible places that are a complete embarrassment to the cuisine it purports to serve, and/or to the culinary arts writ large.

Running a restaurant is extremely expensive. How can these crappy restaurants stay in business? Whatever the case, I would favor government regulation - just like your restaurant needs a minimum health score to stay open, you also need a minimum quality score. If you claim you serve Korean food, then a group of local residents of Korean origin must taste-test everything on your menu, and if you score below a threshold, then your permit is revoked.

I do like Seated, and I like to redeem for Delta GCs or Uber credit.
My ideal trifecta is rewards from Seated, points from credit card, and (hopefully) Bilt points if the restaurant is a part of Bilt Dining.

Or you can just decide not to go back to those restaurants and let the free market decide if they stay open. We don’t need more government regulations.

You’re not just an insufferable douchebag, you’re an insufferable douchebag with terrible takes.

Never In Doubt sure went to an excellent school of argumentation.

Is double-dipping really working?
It looks like registering a card with BILT unregisters it with dining for miles

Is this not the case here?

I would assume those dining apps charge as everyday purchases a tech company and not as a restaurant, so the optimal reward would be to pay directly in the restaurant.

There was a program/app just like this probably 8 to 10 years ago, and for the life of me, I can't remember the name. You had to check in and then use a linked card for the percentage back, yada yada, but the restaurant quality was dicey at best in ATL, MIA and NYC which are cities I frequent. The selection on this app seems marginally better, but I would wager if they don't up the volume of 4-star places, they will eventually fade away.

The nine most terrifying words: "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."

Yet, when there's a problem (weather related disaster, airline IT meltdown, etc), everyone wants the evil government to help.