The rivals have easily identified OpenTable’s Achilles’ heel: the fees it charges restaurants every time someone books a table using its system. For reservations made on OpenTable, the restaurant pays $1 for each diner. Even if reservations are made on the restaurant’s website, OpenTable charges 25 cents a diner.Click to see full answer. Just so, is OpenTable free for restaurants?OpenTable does basically two things: sell restaurants tools to manage reservations, and. operates an online reservation service, both on its site and through partner sites. The reservations are free for consumers but restaurants pay a fee for reservations that go through OpenTable.Secondly, what does open table mean at a restaurant? OpenTable is an American public company that offers online real-time restaurant-reservation service. It was founded by Chuck Templeton in San Francisco, California, in 1998. Reservations are free to end users; the company charges restaurants monthly and per-reservation fees for their use of the system. Keeping this in view, does OpenTable cost money? The company charges one dollar for each customer seated as part of a reservation made via OpenTable (if they’re no-shows, the restaurant doesn’t have to pay). And if restaurants want to be featured in OpenTable’s dining guide, that will cost them an additional $99 per month.Is RESY better than OpenTable?Resy is far smaller than OpenTable, which has more than 20 times as many restaurants on its platform, but it has been chipping away at the incumbent’s lead. OpenTable also charges either 25 cents or $1 for each reservation it makes. Restaurants have to choose between the two providers.