If you're looking to dine at Chicago's Next Restaurant, which specializes in world cuisine, forget making a reservation. Instead, you'll have to get yourself to a computer to buy online tickets for seats.
Selling seat tickets much like that of sporting events, Next Restaurant is creating an innovative solution to overbooking, and cutting out the need for an employee to take reservations. The restaurant's fare, according to its website, will feature four different menus per year that include five or six courses taken from "great moments in culinary history--or the future."
Ticket-Based Dining
Next Restaurant Nixes Reservations for Online Ticketing
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