Restaurants Can 'Review' Their Own Customers Now

Restaurants may soon have a chance to ask their customers: how does the shoe feel on the other foot?!

The founder of Dimmi, which is basically the Australian equivalent of OpenTable, told the Good Food blog this week that his service will allow member restaurateurs to share information about specific patrons: how much they order, which dishes and wines they prefer, whether they leave generous tips and even “whether [they] continued to camp out at the table long after [they’d] finished dessert.”

With whom would they share this information? Other restaurants, of course.

The idea is that this feature would allow individual eateries to offer better customer service by distributing these “secrets” via social network:

“[They could] codify diners with attributes such as wine connoisseur, adventure eaters, quick eaters (good for table turnover)…loud talkers, frequent no-shows or PIAs – pain-in-the-ass customers with excessive demands.”

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