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A black market for dinner reservations.

Ever struggle to get a table at buzzy New York restaurants? Blame the scalpers.

Reservation resellers scour platforms like Resy and OpenTable and resell their spots to the rich and the desperate. It’s apparently a booming industry: a sophomore at Brown says he made $70,000 last year selling reservations.

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[The New Yorker]

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