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Tech Tracker: How digital tech is capitalizing on the hot restaurant reservations market
Tock and Google now offer experience reservations; Diibs launches as a platform for bidding on last-minute reservations
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For years I have proclaimed the robust virtues of the leisure sector compared with its sister asset class, retail.
The surge in popularity of online shopping has swept through high streets and shopping malls like a tsunami, with only the most adaptable or flexible retailers able to cling to any buoyancy aids.
Yet restaurants and entertainment venues have proved to be far more capable swimmers.
Why? Put simply, there is hardly anything you can buy in a shop that cannot be found cheaper or more conveniently with the click of a mouse from your home or office. Yet, by contrast, it is impossible to replicate online that romantic night at the movies or drink-infused dinner with friends or even just a bite to eat on the run.
So unlike many U.K. com...
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