{
  "slug": "reservation-bots",
  "title": "The table was gone in four seconds, and it was never for sale",
  "summary": "Bots book prime restaurant tables at release and resell them. New York now fines the resale. Only a human bound booking stops the farm.",
  "lede": "Reservations at in demand restaurants are released on a schedule, and software that never intended to eat anything takes them at the instant of release. New York made the resale illegal in 2025. That was the right instinct aimed at the wrong end of the problem, because the resale is the symptom and the booking is the disease.",
  "date": "2026-09-30",
  "reading_time": "14 min read",
  "category": "Platforms",
  "tags": ["reservation bots", "restaurant reservations", "ticket bots", "scalping", "verified human booking", "BOTS Act", "agent booking"],
  "image": "https://cdn.twc.sh/images/igcache/Reservation%20Bots/1200_630/blog.jpg",
  "url": "/blog/reservation-bots.html",
  "wordcount": 3580,
  "related": ["the-bot-tax", "denial-of-wallet", "one-human-many-accounts"],
  "schema": "Article"
}