The Mantica problem is something that all restaurants solve. The costs (staff, food, flowers, electricity) are pretty much the same, whether there's an individual restaurant or a full restaurant. While airlines and hotels have figured out how to vary prices to fill flights and rooms, restaurant methods have largely remained in the era of refrigerators. Now, some restaurants are borrowing a tactic from other hospitality businesses and charging different prices for meals at different times.
The variable price tools range from a Groupon or Gilt City coupon to a notification from the Leloca mobile application, used by restaurants such as Mas (La Grillade) and Centro Vinoteca to allow restaurateurs to send offers instantly to Leloca subscribers in certain locations when, for example, at 9 p.m. A website called Savored, which uses Le Cirque, offers discounted meals based on booking time. Savored, used by more than 1000 restaurants, asks diners to make reservations online. It is working on the integration into OpenTable, the reservation system used by approximately 44 percent of North American restaurants that accept reservations.
It applies to the check before it reaches the table, so there are no coupons. Professor Kimes from Cornell said restaurants have been reluctant to vary prices for fear that consumers will consider it unfair. However, their research suggests that consumers are comfortable with the idea. Professor Kimes and her assistants asked 334 hotel guests to rate the fairness of different types of restaurant prices, such as different prices for lunch and dinner, on weekdays and weekends, or one table compared to another.
“With different prices depending on the time of day and day of the week, but what made it even more pronounced was the way you framed it,” he said. At Le Cirque, Mr. Mantica, co-executive director of LC International, which owns Le Cirque and other restaurants, must accommodate at least 100 people for lunchtime and 150 for dinner to reach the break-even point. He says Savored helps him do what Sirio Maccioni, the founder of Le Cirque, used to do on quiet nights with an address book.
So and so he hadn't come in a month, so I called him and said: We have a new dish, come tonight, sir. Savored's spaces have helped him cover the first and last part of every night. In fact, Le Cirque no longer offers its cheaper pre-theater menu, as Savored reservations fill those spaces. Restaurants seem to be open to the idea.
The article cites the much touted Le Cirque as a place that is already considering raising its price. The Fly comes from the people behind Hart's neighborhood restaurants, just around the corner, and Cervo's, just outside Chinatown and the Lower East Side, which are also open for dinner on Mondays. The specialty of this corner place, the youngest of the trio, is roasted chicken and its sexy atmosphere. Reservations are accepted, but the large dining room and the curved bar allow you to enter here at peak times.
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