New York Shuts Down Pricey Restaurant Reservation Resales

Scoring a reservation at one of New York's hippest restaurants used to be a question of both timing and – usually – money. On third-party platforms, guests were able to bid for tables that had previously been secured by others – sometimes for several hundred or even thousands of dollars. This is now a thing of the past: a new law prohibits the resale of restaurant reservations without the restaurants' consent.