Restaurant Lottery - Bingo Style

Momofuku Ko, a popular fusion restaurant in NYC has created a stir with its online reservation system that works like a lottery. Potential customers log on, register with a credit card and take a shot at finding an empty space in the tiny 12-seater restaurant on a bingo-like grid. Seats are released everyday at 10am.

This a interesting, I dont know wether to think its a good idea or a bad one. It would frustrate me if I kept losing and not being able to get a seat.

So they are charged some sort of fee just for a chance to eat at a restaurant? I'm not sure I understood that right. But if so, holy cow! Why would you want to pay someone just to be able to get a seat in their restaurant? There are so many places you could eat.

The food can't be that good!

It must be some sort of famous restaurant that everyone is trying to get into. As any bog standard restaurant surely couldn't get away with this, let alone make any money from it?

You may want to see what others (who managed to get a reservation) say about this quirky restaurant:

http://www.gourmet.com/restaurants/2...ste_momofukuko

We are really digressing too far

well the info is quite good but i want to know that have you registered?
if yes then what was your experience?
thanks

Just out of curiosity roughly how much do the seats go for? Have you been there your self? Also has anyone heard of anyone else doing this?

Sorry, I post this to the forum as a novelty; I had no intention of taking part in a silly lottery just to get in to one of 12 spots available in the restaurant. I rather go somewhere and eat and go to a casino to gamble

Oh ok fair enough. I thought I would just ask if you had been there. I really don't see though how they can sustain this. People are stupid if they waste money on buying a seat.