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Dinner reservations scalpted

(CRI)
Updated: 2007-02-13 09:28



As Spring Festival is just around the corner, the wait at popular
restaurants is getting longer and longer, and so are the profits of
scalpers selling dinner reservations getting higher and higher.

A reporter from the Star Daily says scalpers are selling dinner
reservations to diners unwilling to wait at a price of 30 yuan, while
waiting half an hour will cost you 5 yuan, at some restaurants on Liang
Guang Road in Beijing.

The restaurant scalpers can gain 100 yuan a night if business goes well.
As one scalper says, "The timing is very important. If I arrive too
early, the waiters will doubt I'm a customer, and if too late, I can't
get a good reservation number." He adds that around 10 scalpers work
along Liang Guang Road.

Customers have different views of the phenomenon. Some would prefer to
pay money to save time waiting, while others criticized the scalpers for
destroying order and prolonging the wait for other guests.

Restaurant managers have said they will take action to prevent chaos
during the season, however adding the difficulty of distinguishing
scalpers from other patrons. Moreover, even if they did identify a
scalper, they wouldn't be able to call the police, as that would just
upset their other guests.












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