Owners at several other of New York’s hard-to-get-into restaurants also report being burned by bots. — Image by Alexander Belyaev from Pixabay
To score a table at Don Angie, the Italian-American hotspot in New York’s West Village, the official course of action is to log on to restaurant booking site Resy at 9am seven days before the desired dining date. At least, that’s the policy that chef-owners Angie Rito and Scott Tacinelli have set up for potential diners.
But those who have recently tried to book those elusive seats via the reservation platform know they rarely open up.
