Geeky Traveller » Restaurants http://www.geekytraveller.com Gadgets, tools, and tips for geeks who love to travel, and travelers who are geeks. Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:34:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 OpenTable prevents hunger upon arrival http://www.geekytraveller.com/2008/07/opentable-prevents-hunger-upon-arrival/ http://www.geekytraveller.com/2008/07/opentable-prevents-hunger-upon-arrival/#comments Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:47:11 +0000 http://www.geekytraveller.com/opentable-prevents-hunger-upon-arrival/ Post from: Geeky Traveller

]]> If you’ve just gotten off a long flight and all you’ve had to eat are questionable airline meals and overpriced chips at the airport, you just might be ravenous when you arrive at your destination. Depending on your hotel, you may be able to eat something when you arrive, but not all hotels are the same. One hotel, a place I loved and enjoyed, closed their kitchen by 10 pm and didn’t offer room service. When I arrived at almost midnight, I was hungry but had no food to eat. Luckily I found a great place to indulge in some local food, but OpenTable.com’s website would have been a useful solution for me.

OpenTableOpenTable allows you to make reservations in advance online. They have thousands of restaurants listed worldwide (including the U.S., Canada, Mexico, UK, Germany, France, Spain, and Japan). On their site, you can search by city, neighborhood, and even type of cuisine. Specify what date you want to eat out and how many people will be dining with you.

The site will search its database and tell you what restaurants are available to you, where it’s located, the type of food, and the general price range. They even tell you which time slots are available that day.

You have to sign up as a member, but once you do so, you can go ahead and book your reservation from the comfort of your home before you even get on the plane.

There are a lot of advantages to this. As I mentioned, if you’re starving upon arrival, at least you know there’s a table waiting for you where you can fill up on some good food. If you’re hosting a business lunch, you can take care of all the details before you’ve left the office, fly out, and just make sure everyone knows where to go and what time.

The Internet is making it possible to do just about anything in advance and it saves you a lot of time on your vacation so you don’t have to waste time trying to find something suitable after you’ve arrived.

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]]> When you’re doing business, even the toughest entrepreneur needs to break for lunch of dinner. In fact, business dinners are frequently a huge part of business travel and are a great opportunity for some networking in a more relaxed environment than the boardroom.

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What about another kind of networking though? Conducting business has changed over the years and no one wants to lug a briefcase full of memos and papers to dinner. With everyone owning Blackberry devices or other similar PDAs or even laptops, what people want to know now is: Where can I get Wi-Fi access?

If you want to discuss the latest business trends or check out a report over Chardonnay and pasta, you need wireless. This website offers a listing of over 2600 Wi-Fi hotspots in various restaurants all over the U.S. If you’re traveling in the near future, check your destination city to find out which restaurants you should suggest to your boss for lunch and get in some business while you wait for your salad.

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